Why did the author put scare quotes around “intellectual property”? Is he suggesting it has no real value and this is much ado about nothing?
Weird.
The article says, “The indictment lists the purposes of the “scheme” as being “to provide the FZU with technical training, scientific expertise, and research capacity,” “to obtain funds to which he was not legitimately entitled...”
Of that he received... “According to the indictment, Tao obtained federal funds to which he was not entitled throughout the course of his alleged fraud. He received “benefits of $10,000 under federal grants sponsored by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, and other federal departments and agencies, embezzled, stole, and obtained by fraud, property worth at least $5,000.”