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Report: Kessler did not direct investigators to share information with Nvidia or alter findings

NDTV Profit, summarizing The New York Times, reports that Commerce official Jeff Kessler did not direct export-control investigators to share information with Nvidia or change their findings. The report says the Justice Department later asked Commerce to suspend its work and transfer the Megaspeed case. Federal authorities are pursuing a criminal investigation, so the request does not mean the inquiry has ended. The reported chronology does not establish that Nvidia counsel’s earlier contact with Commerce caused the procedural change, and the suspected diversion remains unresolved. Separately, Semafor reports that Nvidia said it regularly consults with officials and that Commerce denied wrongdoing.

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