Posted on 01/16/2020 5:36:11 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
PHILADELPHIA -- A former Drexel University professor in Philadelphia who allegedly spent $185,000 in federal grant money on strip clubs and other personal expenses has been charged with theft.
Prosecutors announced the charges against Chika Nwankpa on Tuesday.
The former head of Drexel University's electrical engineering department, Nwankpa misappropriated grant money from the Navy, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation over a period of 10 years, prosecutors said.
Nwankpa, 57, spent $96,000 in federal grant funds at adult entertainment venues and sports bars between 2010 and 2017, prosecutors said. He also allegedly squandered $89,000 on iTunes purchases and meals.
"Mr. Nwankpa inappropriately and criminally diverted tens of thousands of dollars that were allocated for research purposes toward his own private enjoyment. He betrayed Drexel University and tuition-paying students he was paid to educate," said District Attorney Larry Krasner.
According to the district attorney's office, 48% of the 114 separate charges were done on weekends and 63% were processed between the hours of midnight and 2 a.m.
Drexel University had announced last October that it discovered the alleged fraud in 2017 during an internal audit and alerted the government. Authorities said Nwankpa repaid more than $53,000, resigned from Drexel and was barred from federal contracting for six months.
Drexel paid $189,000 to resolve its potential civil liability in the case.
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Doing research.
He has good American name./s
What’s the name of the strip club at 38th, below the Chili’s ?
Barred from federal contracting for 6 months. That’ll learn him.
So, after stealing $185,000 from the taxpayers, he offers to kick back $53,000 to the university and thinks that makes everything even....
At least it didn’t go to waste.
Isn’t that a better use of the money than producing a fake global warming study?
(former) Professor Chika Nwankpa
What will he do now?
Go to much cheaper strip joints.
Isn’t that how Nancy says government spending boosts the economy. Government gives you dollars and you go tuck the bucks and pound beers.
Ironically, it sounds like he spent the money getting his globes warmed.
What a waste. Sports bars.
Latest peer-reviewed publication: "Analysis of Weak Force Attraction Between Dollar Bills and Stripper Thongs"
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Maybe he was drinking partners with Hunter Biden.
“Chika Nwankpa”
What, exactly, did the Navy expect the money to be used for. This isn’t hard...
Good chance.
Chika O. Nwankpa (M’87–SM’04–F’13) received the Magister Diploma degree in electric power systems from St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, in 1990.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37274349200
My question is, “How unusual is this?”
Getting caught and having it publicized is unusual, but what about the underlying behavior?
Department Head:
He’s black so he’ll be given a pass. He most likely won’t even be fired.
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