The formal summonses come as senior White House officials discuss whether to oust Lutnick after he repeatedly stalled chip export curbs that President Donald Trump approved three times this year, Reuters and Axios reported, though a White House official said Trump maintains “complete confidence” in the secretary. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly faulted Lutnick’s department on Friday for failing to blacklist Alice Huang’s Singapore-based cloud firm, Megaspeed, which bought $4.8 billion in Nvidia hardware. “Treasury, War, USTR, and State were in favor of putting Megaspeed on the entity list for months, but Commerce has the pen,” Bessent said.

Regulatory filings reviewed by Bloomberg showed that a Chinese company founded by Alice Huang and now majority-owned by her sister procured 52 smuggled Super Micro server units containing restricted Nvidia H100 or H200 chips. Those units, along with 22 Dell servers carrying H800 chips originally sold to Singapore Nvidia partner Aperia, were installed at a Megaspeed-linked Shanghai data center run by Alice Huang’s husband, Kang Wei. Separately, Singapore authorities charged a fifth person with 41 counts in an AI server fraud case involving $390 million in deals for servers shipped to Malaysia.