A National Weather Service Scientist, Sherry Chen Is Under a Cloud

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Nicole Perlroth, 华裔美国水文专家蒙冤，被控为中国做间谍.
cn.nytimes.com/usa/20150511/c11espionage/

, which is translated from

Nicole Perlroth, The Spy Who Wasn’t; A National Weather Service scientist was accused of stealing trade secrets for China, until her case was dropped as abruptly as it had upended her life. New York Times, May 10, 2015.

Excerpt in the window of print: A favor for a family member feeds the suspicions of prosecutors.

Note:
(a) "On Monday, Oct 20, 2014, Sherry Chen drove, as usual, to her office at the National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio, where she forecast flood threats along the Ohio River."
(i) National Weather Service
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service
(under Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC"
(ii) Wilmington, Ohio
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington,_Ohio
(features a weather forecast office of the National Weather Service, which serves all of Southwestern Ohio and portions of Kentucky and Indiana)

(b) "to a federal courthouse 40 miles away in Dayton"
(i) Dayton, Ohio
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton,_Ohio

is northwest of Wilmington, Ohio. By Great Miami River [named after a tribe there called Miami], City of Dayton “was named after Jonathan Dayton, a captain in the American Revolutionary War who signed the US Constitution and owned a significant amount of land in the area.” Ibid.
(ii) Ohio is divided into two: United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_Ohio

The latter has two divisions: Western Division (sitting at both Cincinnati and Dayton) and Eastern Division.

(c) " 'They came across a person of Chinese descent and a little bit of evidence that they may have been trying to benefit the Chinese government, but it’s clear there was a little bit of Red Scare and racism involved,' said Peter J Toren, a former federal prosecutor who specialized in computer crimes and industrial espionage. He is now a partner [defense lawyer] at Weisbrod Matteis & Copley in Washington"

The noun "evidence" usually is uncountable ("evidences" is unusual), so the "they" in "they may have been trying to benefit the Chinese government" should be "it."
(d) "Mrs Chen, whose given name is Xiafen 陈霞芬, was born in Beijing. * * * In Wilmington, she and her husband, an electronics specialist, moved into a ranch-style house a short drive from her office”

ranch-style house
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranch-style_house
("First built in the 1920s, the ranch style was extremely popular with the booming post-war middle class of the 1940s to 1970s"/ section 1 Features)

(e) “Ask her [Chen] about water flow or the Ohio River and she will talk for hours. Some 25 million people live along the Ohio River basin, which runs more than 900 miles from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Ill, where it joins the Mississippi River.”

Ohio River
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River
(the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River; The 981-mile (1,579 km) river; The river's name comes from the Seneca (Iroquoian) Ohiːyo', a proper name derived from ohiːyoːh, meaning "good river")

a photo legend in section 1 Gallery: The Allegheny River, left, and Monongahela River join to form the Ohio River at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the largest metropolitan area on the river.

(f) “one of Mrs Chen’s former hydrology classmates, Jiao Yong 矫勇, had become vice minister of China’s Ministry of Water Resources, which oversees much of China’s water infrastructure”

(g) “Mrs Chen’s benefits and pay have been restored, but she is waiting to hear whether the Commerce Department will allow her to return to work. * * * Asked whether he thought Mrs Chen should get her job back, Mr [Thomas] Adams, her former colleague [in fact, early in the NYT report  indicates Adams as the one “who hired Mrs Chen at the National Weather Service in 2007’], said he was torn. ‘I want her to get her job back as soon as possible,’ he said. ‘But on the other hand, I also hope she never goes back there again. After the way she was treated, she should be concerned that the government hasn’t given up the ghost.’ ”
(i) NYT translation: 我又希望她再也别回去了。她受到那样的对待，应该小心政府还没死心。
(ii) give up the ghost
(A) www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/155500.html
(from Bible)
(B) : “to stop trying to do something because you know that you will not succeed”
Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
idioms.thefreedictionary.com/give+up+the+ghost