I think you’ve got it backwards. There’s no evidence that he broke any laws with the first affair, and no evidence that she was even a spy, so that one could have been just a regular affair.

The new affair potentially opens Nvidia up to lawsuits, so it carries way more financial risk.

What isn’t a national security risk?

This isn’t about export restrictions either, or really anything else actually. It’s just another opportunistic law firm that constantly sues companies every time their stock drops because they know they can probably get a settlement out of it.