LANSING — A new report from Detroit News has raised questions about Mike Rogers selling out Michigan and our national security to China, so he could make “hundreds of thousands of dollars in wealth through companies that have partnered with Chinese firms.”
Detroit News found that Rogers left Congress and “worked for AT&T, which faced pushback for its entanglements with a Chinese telecom giant.” Rogers’ wife “is on the board of a company that’s touted its partnership with a China-based entity.” The report shines a spotlight on “the business relationships that Rogers engaged in over the last decade as a prominent ex-lawmaker, apparently making himself a multi-millionaire.”
In 2012, Rogers served as the House intelligence chairman, where he “co-authored a report on Chinese telecommunications companies, specifically saying Huawei Technologies ‘may be violating United States laws.’” About two years after Rogers left Congress, he began working as “chief security adviser for AT&T, a company that drew criticism, around that same time, from federal lawmakers for its connections with Huawei.”
Questions Mike Rogers must answer:
- How much money did you make while working for AT&T?
- You are refusing to disclose the details about your work for AT&T and its Huawei partnership – what are you hiding?
- Why did you sell out our national security to China?
- What’s your response to Republicans calling you out for “using political influence to personally profit from partnerships with the Chinese Communist government against the interests of our country?”
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