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Mingqing Xiao
BENTON – Mathematics professor Mingqing Xiao of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale concealed his Chinese research while winning an American grant, grand jurors alleged in U.S. district court on April 21.
They indicted him on charges of wire fraud and making a false statement.
Xiao, age 59, resides in Makanda.
The university hired him in 2000.
Grand jurors found his research included partial differential equations, control theory, optimization theory, dynamical systems and computational science.
Xiao is alleged to have received about $180,000 from Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province in 2017, to run from 2018 to 2022.
According to the indictment, he renewed a contract for a monthly salary with Shenzhen University of the same province in April 2018, to run to 2023.
Rosenstengel and Yandle
Trial dates fell through for eight civil suits at U.S. district court in January because of the virus.
In a colorful case, District Judge Staci Yandle of Benton continued a Feb. 16 trial for tattoo artist Catherine Alexander.
Alexander sued World Wrestling Entertainment and video game makers in 2019, asserting copyright privilege for art she inked on wrestler Randy Orton.
Yandle granted a joint motion to continue trial on Jan. 26, and converted a Feb. 3 pretrial conference to a conference about a trial date.
At the time the lockdown started, she planned trial in three months.
Other cases:
On Jan. 27, Yandle granted a joint motion to continue a wrongful termination trial for former Madison County sheriff’s deputy Gustavo Navarrete.