Posted on 07/30/2020 3:45:50 AM PDT by Libloather
Federal prosecutors have secured dozens of indictments on wire and passport fraud charges against a University of Arkansas professor who allegedly hid ties to China to obtain NASA grant money.
Investigators arrested 63-year-old Simon Saw-Teong Ang in May on a single charge of wire fraud for allegedly hiding his ties to the Chinese government and Chinese businesses while receiving federal grant money. Now the Fayetteville, Ark. resident faces 42 counts of wire fraud and two counts of passport fraud after a grand jury indictment, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced Wednesday.
“This is a hallmark of China’s targeting of research and academic collaborations within the United States in order to obtain U.S. technology illegally,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers.
Investigators said Ang was receiving payments and other benefits from China while working as the director of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville’s High Density Electronics Center – a position that required him to disclose any conflicts of interest or anything that might appear to be a conflict.
Ang was allegedly receiving payments from the Chinese government, held high-ranking positions at multiple Chinese companies and was also the part-owner of at least one more, according to the federal indictment.
FBI agents alleged that he failed to disclose conflicts to both NASA and the University of Arkansas. Ang, who started his employment with the university in 1988 and made an annual salary of $168,192, was suspended without pay, a spokesperson told Fox News after his arrest in May.
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Throw every single one of them out of the country.
Time to set up a prison camp for these invaders. They’re starting to pile up.
Seriously, though, what kind of High Density Electronics Center can I of Arkansas have? I didn’t know they were known for anything resembling state-of-the-art research.
Block them all from coming here.
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