WASHINGTON _ A bipartisan group of House lawmakers are promising to investigate embattled former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang amid reports he was having an affair with a Chinese spy.
Nvidia’s board of directors announced Thursday that Huang had resigned and company CFO Colette Kress would take over as interim CEO.
News of Huang’s alleged affair with Alice Huang, first reported by the New York Times almost a week ago, has rocked markets and the U.S. government from the White House to the Capitol, with extensive questions of just how much the alleged Chinese spy was able to procure from the head of world’s biggest chipmaker.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is expected to be speaker in the incoming Congress, said Thursday that lawmakers need a full accounting of what happened with Huang and Nvidia.
“We need a classified briefing made available to members of Congress as it relates to the Nvidia situation, and to the extent that our national security has been compromised, the American people deserve answers, and we're going to work to make sure that happens,” Jeffries said, adding that Rep. Gregory Meeks, the incoming House Foreign Affairs chairman and Rep. Jim Himes, the incoming House Intelligence Committee chairman would lead the Nvidia probes.
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