Lawyers representing a Chinese professor accused of helping to steal intellectual property for the Chinese telecom giant Huawei told a Brooklyn federal judge Thursday that they want to get conflict-of-interest questions about their fees resolved as quickly as possible.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Solomon filed a letter this week claiming that the defendant’s Thompson & Knight and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati attorneys are being paid by a U.S. subsidiary of “Company 1,” which has been identified in multiple media reports as Huawei.