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U. Tennessee Prof Charged With Lying About Connection to University in China

U. Tennessee Prof Charged With Lying About Connection to University in China

“charged with three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements”

This professor taught aerospace engineering and got funding from NASA. Great.

WVLT News reports:

UT professor charged for lying about connection to Chinese university

The Department of Justice announced that a University of Tennessee professor was charged with wire fraud and making false statements about his connection to a university in China.

A release from the department said Anming Hu, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, was arrested on Thursday, February 27.

Hu was charged with three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements.

“Hu allegedly committed fraud by hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving funding from NASA,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers. “This is just the latest case involving professors or researchers concealing their affiliations with China from their American employers and the U.S. government. We will not tolerate it.”

Investigators said, beginning in 2016, Hu began concealing his affiliation to Beijing University of Technology to defraud NASA. Federal law prohibits NASA from using appropriated funds on projects in collaboration with China or Chinese universities. Investigators said this led to UT falsely certifying to NASA that the university was in compliance with that law.

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Comments

PersonofInterests | February 29, 2020 at 3:40 pm

You can take a Chicom out of Communist China, but you can’t take the Communist China out of the Chicom.

The Chicoms “innovate” the old fashion way: THEY STEAL IT FROM OTHERS.

And America should use Racial Profiling in deciding who has access to our best Technologies, especially those that have Military Potential? But to give them Government Funding to boot, is just stupid.