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WASHINGTON  Today, a federal grand jury in Carbondale, Illinois returned an indictment charging a mathematics professor and researcher at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale (SIUC) with two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement. According to court documents, Mingqing Xiao of Makanda, Illinois, fraudulently obtained $151,099 in federal grant money from the National Science Foundation (NSF) by concealing support he was receiving from the Chinese government and a Chinese university. Again, an American professor stands accused of enabling the Chinese government s efforts to corruptly benefit from U.S. research funding by lying about his obligations to, and support from, an arm of the Chinese government and a Chinese public university, said Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers for the Justice Department s National Security Division (NSD). Honesty and transparency about funding sources lie at the heart of the scientific research enterprise. They e

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