Posted on 05/14/2020 2:18:28 PM PDT by ransomnote
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman of the Northern District of Ohio, and FBI Cleveland Special Agent in Charge Eric B. Smith announced a former Cleveland Clinic employee was arrested yesterday without incident by law enforcement and had his initial court appearance today.
Dr. Qing Wang, a former Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) employee, is charged with false claims and wire fraud related to more than $3.6 million in grant funding that Dr. Wang and his research group received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
According to the criminal complaint, Dr. Wang knowingly failed to disclose to NIH that he had an affiliation with and held the position of Dean of the College of Life Sciences and Technology at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and received grant funds from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (CNSF) for some of the same scientific research funded by the NIH grant. As a result, Dr. Wang’s false representations and promises led NIH to approve and fund grants to Dr. Wang and his research group at CCF.
It is also alleged that Dr. Wang participated in the Thousand Talents Program, a program established by the Chinese government to recruit individuals with access to or knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property. As a result of his admission into the TTP, China provided $3 million in research support to enhance the facilities and operations at HUST. Dr. Wang received free travel and lodging for his trips to China, to include a three-bedroom apartment on campus for his personal use. This also occurred at the time Dr. Wang was receiving NIH grant funds yet failed to disclose this affiliation to the NIH.
This case was investigated by the Cleveland Division of the FBI and the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General and is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office – Northern District of Ohio.
A charge is not evidence of guilt. A defendant is entitled to a fair trial in which it will be the government's burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
“Dr. Wang “
He is no ordinary Wang.
Nice, it seems like a number of these are being reeled in lately.
“...false claims and wire fraud....”
Just Two of a thousand talents?
Who wants to spend four years of college, another 3-5 years of graduate school to get a PhD, and then do a 2-4 year post-doc before getting a first independent researcher job - in which you have to pay your own salary from grants? Added to this is having to compete against non-citizens who are overrepresented on grant review committees and who preferentially fund the grants of people from their country of origin (often China).
Recognized or not, this is a national security issue. A big one.
Sure seems like a lot of “Thousand Talents” recipients are being rolled-up by the Feds the last few weeks.
There’s about 50,000 Iranian students here doing the same thing!
Yeah, that’s one way to get rid of them. Find the undisclosed conflicts and charge them.
‘zactly.
They should ALL be removed !
Wang got pinched.
As a matter of national security, expel all Chinese nationals today.
Drip, drip, drip. One by one they are being sought out. Trump is doing his first effort back at the ccp.
There are thousands out there. All subject to CCP intel control.
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