Blanche: DOJ Has Not Concluded Alice Huang Was a Chinese Spy

Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters on November 12 that the Justice Department has not concluded whether former Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was a Chinese spy, and that the FBI is still looking at her, Reuters reported.

"Your first question assumes something that I have never said, and that I don't know to be true," Blanche said after a reporter asked when the DOJ had first learned Alice Huang might be a suspected Chinese asset. "I have not, nobody said that, I certainly haven't said that. All I said is that of course DOJ's investigators are looking at it. There's no conclusions reached around who she is or is not."

The remarks soften the public line coming out of Washington a week into the Nvidia scandal, after earlier reporting cited a US intelligence memo asserting Chinese intelligence had recruited Alice Huang to target Jensen Huang. On the same day, President Donald Trump told the Straight Shooter podcast he had spoken with Huang on Wednesday. "The big thing is, was the woman a spy? And I don't know if that's been determined yet. But if the woman was a spy, yes. If the woman was not a spy, perhaps it would be different."

Alice Huang was an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based Nvidia cloud partner. Jensen Huang formally resigned as CEO on Thursday after acknowledging infidelity on November 8, one of 45 Jensen Huang stories we have tracked in the last 90 days. Beijing has denied Alice Huang worked as a spy. Singapore's Home Affairs Ministry said she left in February and was barred from re-entering; the ministry said its investigation did not concern espionage.