Jan 22, 2017 12:03 AM
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news...-jail-term
EXCERPT: A former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist has been sentenced by a court in California to 18 months in prison for submitting false data and reports with the "purpose of defrauding a government agency". Sean Darin Kinion, 44, who earned his physics PhD from the University of California, Davis, pleaded guilty in June to mail fraud and acknowledged that he was involved in "a scheme to defraud the government out of money intended to fund research". In addition to his prison term, which will begin on 26 January, Kinion will have to pay $3,317,893 in compensation to the US government. He will also undergo supervision for three years following his release from prison.
[...] Kinion's trial focused on funding that he received between 2008 and 2012 from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), which belongs to the Directorate of National Intelligence. According to the local US attorney's office, the funding was to let him "design, build, and test experimental components in the field of quantum computing"....
EXCERPT: A former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist has been sentenced by a court in California to 18 months in prison for submitting false data and reports with the "purpose of defrauding a government agency". Sean Darin Kinion, 44, who earned his physics PhD from the University of California, Davis, pleaded guilty in June to mail fraud and acknowledged that he was involved in "a scheme to defraud the government out of money intended to fund research". In addition to his prison term, which will begin on 26 January, Kinion will have to pay $3,317,893 in compensation to the US government. He will also undergo supervision for three years following his release from prison.
[...] Kinion's trial focused on funding that he received between 2008 and 2012 from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), which belongs to the Directorate of National Intelligence. According to the local US attorney's office, the funding was to let him "design, build, and test experimental components in the field of quantum computing"....