SIUC professor, researcher charged with grant fraud
Mingqing Xiao, an American mathematics professor and researcher Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, was charged on April 21 with wire fraud and one count of making a false statement. (Source: Pablo)
By Ashley Smith | April 21, 2021 at 4:34 PM CDT - Updated April 21 at 5:37 PM
CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - An American mathematics professor and researcher Southern Illinois University in Carbondale was charged on April 21 with wire fraud and one count of making a false statement.
Mingqing Xiao was accused of fraudulently taking $151,099 in federal grant money from the National Science Foundation by hiding the support he was getting from the Chinese government and Shenzhen University, a public university in Guangdong Province in China.