Overview
- Lauren Chen announced on Christmas that she and her husband had returned to Nashville after receiving a new U.S. visa.
- Chen publicly thanked State Department adviser Joe Rittenhouse, along with CBP, the FBI, and the administration, for facilitating her reentry.
- Rittenhouse confirmed his role and characterized the action as correcting wrongs by the prior administration.
- The September 2024 SDNY indictment charged two RT employees with FARA and money‑laundering conspiracies tied to roughly $10 million directed to Tenet Media.
- Court records indicate the case remains open with the accused foreign operators still at large, while U.S. commentators paid by Tenet have not been charged and say they were misled.