Gang Chen, who was born in China but is a naturalized U.S. citizen, serves as director of the MIT Pappalardo Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory and director of.
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Gang Chen, who works as the director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Solar Thermal Energy Conversion Center was arrested on Thursday by the U.S authorities for allegedly keeping his Chinese funding under wraps.
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Gang Chen, who works as the director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Solar Thermal Energy Conversion Center was arrested on Thursday by the U.S authorities for allegedly keeping his Chinese funding under wraps. In a statement released by U.S. District Attorney’s Office, the MIT professor was charged with the federal crimes of committing wire fraud, making a false statement in the tax return, and not filing foreign bank account reports with the authorities.
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor was arrested and charged Thursday with conducting secret work for the Chinese government while also collecting research funds from the federal government.
Gang Chen, 56, an engineering professor specializing in nanotechnology, was charged with accepting U.S. taxpayer research funds while simultaneously working for the People’s Republic of China.
“It is not illegal to collaborate with foreign researchers. It is illegal to lie about it,” Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling told reporters following the arrest.
Since approximately 2013, Chen’s research at MIT has been funded by more than $19 million in grants awarded by various U.S. federal agencies.
MIT professor charged over funding from China
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A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor and nanotechnology expert has been charged with failing to disclose to the US Department of Energy millions of dollars in funding he allegedly received from China, the latest in a slew of similar cases.
Chen Gang (陳剛), 56, a naturalized US citizen from China, was charged with wire fraud, making a false statement in a tax return and failing to disclose a foreign bank account, the US Department of Justice said.
In a court appearance by videoconference, a federal judge in Boston on Thursday said that he anticipated requiring Chen to post a secured bond “in the neighborhood” of US$1 million.