Nvidia hired law firm Wachtell Lipton and former acting US Attorney Joon H. Kim, who previously helped investigate former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, to lead its board inquiry into CEO Jensen Huang’s admitted affair with a Chinese business executive accused of espionage. The appointment comes as the two-day selloff in Nvidia shares erased up to $500 billion in market value and shareholders filed a securities class action in San Jose federal court alleging the company’s earlier statements calling Huang’s interactions with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang “normal and not unusual” were materially false and misleading.
Separately, The New York Times reported Tuesday that Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio briefed President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One en route to China in May on US intelligence regarding Huang and Alice Huang before the president picked up the Nvidia chief for the trip. The in-flight update was at least the second briefing Trump received on the intelligence assessment and contradicts his statement to reporters Monday that he had not heard about the alleged spy ties before traveling to China in May.
