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Survival ways for couples supporting Sino-fascism (under a pseudo-communist facade) - C C - Apr 20, 2021
Couple sentenced for scheme to steal from US children’s hospital to profit in China
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/couple-sentenced-scheme-steal-from-childrens-hospital-profit-china
INTRO: A Chinese-born husband and wife who became U.S. citizens have been sentenced in a conspiracy to steal sensitive medical research from Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio while being financially supported by the Chinese government, with the couple pursuing the goal of selling the stolen secrets for a profit in China.
Yu Zhou, 51, and Li Chen, 47, of Dublin, Ohio, pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud and conspiring to steal at least five exosome-related trade secrets tied to the identification and treatment of a number of pediatric medical conditions while working at the elite Columbus hospital’s research institute, even as they were receiving benefits from the Chinese government, including China’s State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
The Justice Department said that “the pair were also part of application processes tied to multiple Chinese government programs, including talent plans” that prosecutors described as “a method used by China to transfer foreign research and technology to the Chinese government.” The indictment details their efforts to join a Beijing Overseas Talent Plan.
Chen was sentenced to 30 months behind bars in February, while Zhou’s 33-month sentence was handed down Monday. They were originally arrested in California in July 2019... (MORE - details)
RE: Survival ways for couples supporting Sino-fascism (under a pseudo-communist facade) - C C - Apr 22, 2021
DOJ indicts Illinois professor for secretly working for China while getting US government grants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-indicts-illinois-professor-secretly-working-china-while-getting-us-government-grants
INTRO: The Justice Department indicted a Chinese-born Illinois college professor on two counts of wire fraud and a false statements charge for secretly working for a Chinese government-affiliated university and concealing those ties when applying for and receiving a $151,099 grant from the U.S. government’s National Science Foundation.
Mingqing Xiao, 59, was accused on Wednesday of “fraudulently” obtaining the federal grant money “by concealing support he was receiving from the Chinese government and a Chinese university” while he worked as a mathematics professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he has been employed since 2000. Prosecutors said Xiao “applied for and received NSF grant funds ... without informing NSF about another, overlapping grant he had already received from the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China” and “failed to inform NSF that he was on the payroll" of Shenzhen University.
“Again, an American professor stands accused of enabling the Chinese government’s efforts to corruptly benefit from U.S. research funding by lying about his obligations to, and support from, an arm of the Chinese government and a Chinese public university,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers said Wednesday... (MORE)