{"id":54789,"date":"2020-05-12T23:35:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T04:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54789"},"modified":"2020-05-12T23:43:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T04:43:24","slug":"54789","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54789","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/05\/12\/arkansas-professor-arrested-for-concealing-communist-chinese-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arkansas Professor Arrested for Concealing Communist Chinese Funding<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An engineering professor at the University of Arkansas has been arrested by the FBI and faces up to 20 years in prison for allegedly hiding funding that he received from the communist Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reports that \u201cSimon Ang of the University of Arkansas, was arrested on Friday and charged on Monday with wire fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe worked for and received funding from Chinese companies and from the Thousand Talents program, which awards grants to scientists to encourage relationships with the Chinese government,\u201d the report notes, adding that \u201che warned an associate to keep his affiliation with the program quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=14859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emory Prof Admits to Chinese Spy Ring Involvement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A former professor at Emory University pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns by failing to disclose $500,000 in income from Chinese sources.<\/p>\n<p>The professor, Xiao-Jiang Li, worked at two Chinese universities as part of China\u2019s Thousand Talents Program, according to the Department of Justice. Li was ordered to pay $35,089 in restitution and sentenced to one-year probation.<\/p>\n<p>Court findings revealed that in 2012, while still working at Emory, Li began working for the Thousand Talents Program and continued to work for the program until 2018. During this time period, Li worked at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and at Jinan University, where he reportedly conducted animal research. Li\u2019s tax fraud was discovered when the National Institutes of Health examined his applications for research grants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas Professor Arrested for Concealing Communist Chinese Funding An engineering professor at the University of Arkansas has been arrested by the FBI and faces up to 20 years in prison for allegedly hiding funding that he received from the communist Chinese government. The New York Times reports that \u201cSimon Ang of the University of Arkansas, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54789\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,9,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-espionage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54792,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54789\/revisions\/54792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}