Fauci and Obama at NIH.
Posted on 03/07/2021 6:56:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Golden Horseshoe is a weekly designation from Just the News intended to highlight egregious examples of wasteful taxpayer spending by the government. The award is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s.
This week our award is going to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for granting $1.75 million to a University of Florida associate professor to conduct research the fruits of which he ended up exploiting on behalf of China's communist government and his own undisclosed business interests.
In early February this year, a Department of Justice indictment against 43-year-old biomedical engineering professor Lin Yang was unsealed. Yang had been working in the United States for years, receiving taxpayer-funded NIH grants to support breakthrough research while illegally concealing from NIH his conflicting government ties and business interests in China.
The researcher was part of China's Thousand Talents Program, an effort launched in 2008 to steal and exploit foreign intellectual property and technology for Chinese economic and military advantage. American universities and government-funded labs are major targets of the program.
According to the DOJ indictment, Yang's research involved the creation of an imaging informatics tool for muscles called the "MuscleMiner." Between 2014 and 2019, Yang also served as the grant's investigator, meaning it was he who was responsible for overseeing the distribution and management of the $1.75 million in U.S. government funds at the University of Florida.
In addition to working in support of the research goals of China's communist regime, Yang also established a business in China called "Deep Informatics," which he marketed by telling consumers that the products offered were the result of years of U.S. government-supported research...
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when the NIH and USPTO let this happen for DECADES,
they only do it for treason and for kickbacks
and maybe some honeypots or children.
where is the Congress? helping, as co-traitors.
same to DO”J”. helping and going after any informants, too.
IT IS TREASON and against the security of the USA.
or what was the USA before SCOTUS and Congress sold out.
1.75 million? Were they trying to insult the Chinese? NIH spending 1.75 million is like me flipping a nickel to a bum.
LOL, it’s shocking to us, but this is chump change for government. NIH lights their bunsen burners with hundred dollar bills.
Fauci and Obama at NIH.
Where is Fauci’s white coat?
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