Lawyer nomination embroiled in case against Chinese technology expert lapses

The nomination as an assistant US attorney of a prosecutor who falsely prosecuted a Chinese-born professor under the now-defunct China Initiative has timed out, and President Joe Biden has decided not to renominate him.

Casey Arrowood, the lead prosecutor of Anming Hu, a nanotechnology expert at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, was nominated by Biden in late July to serve as US attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee for a term of four years.

US attorneys are appointed by the president and approved by the Senate as the top federal law enforcement officials in their federal districts and represent the government in both civil and criminal cases.