https://www.npr.org/2019/01/29/689663720/a-robot-named-tappy...
This was big news last week and gave a lot of legitimacy to the allegations.
Huawei China allegedly continued to pester Huawei USA employees to dig up the intel, and they in turn continued to ask T-Mobile folks about Tappy's design. One of the Huawei engineers, known in the indictment only as "A.X.", took and sent unauthorized photos of the robot to Huawei China, but it wasn't enough, and they asked for more.