Published 22 April 2021
A federal grand jury in Carbondale, Ill. On Wednesday returned an indictment charging a mathematics professor and researcher at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale (SIUC) with two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement. The prosecution is part of the Justice Department’s ongoing China Initiative. Led by the Department’s National Security Division, the China Initiative is a broad, multi-faceted effort to counter Chinese national security threats and safeguard American intellectual property.
A federal grand jury in Carbondale, Ill. On Wednesday returned an indictment charging a mathematics professor and researcher at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale (SIUC) with two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement.
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.
A federal grand jury in Carbondale, Illinois, returned an indictment Wednesday charging a mathematics professor and researcher at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale with two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement. According to court documents, Mingqing Xiao, 59, of Makanda, Illinois, fraudulently obtained $151,099 in federal grant money from the National Science Foundation by concealing support he was receiving.
WASHINGTON Today, a federal grand jury in Carbondale, Illinois returned an indictment charging a mathematics professor and researcher at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale (SIUC) with two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement.
According to court documents, Mingqing Xiao of Makanda, Illinois, fraudulently obtained $151,099 in federal grant money from the National Science Foundation (NSF) by concealing support he was receiving from the Chinese government and a Chinese 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, said Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers for the Justice Department s National Security Division (NSD). Honesty and transparency about funding sources lie at the heart of the scientific research enterprise. They e