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发信人: vPro (沉默杀手), 信区: Military
标 题: 华盛顿州又有个老中faculty被FBI抓了，骗了八百万
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Feb 25 19:52:56 2016, 美东)
谁来八一八
http://www.the-leader.com/article/20160224/NEWS/160229840
By Derrick Ek
[email protected]/* */
Posted Feb. 24, 2016 at 7:28 PM
A former Horseheads couple have been charged with illegally receiving $8
million in research grants from federal agencies.
According to a news release Wednesday from U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul
Jr., three people have been arrested in the alleged scheme: Haifang Wen, 41,
of Pullman, Wash.; his brother, Bin “Ben” Wen, 44, and Bin Wen’s wife,
Pang "Jessica" Wen, 43, of Great Falls, Va.
Bin and Pang Wen are former Horseheads residents.
Companies controlled by the three defendants allegedly received 30 grants
totaling $8 million from federal agencies including the National Science
Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation and
the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The funds were supposed to be used for the development of asphalt
composition technologies, and were deposited into bank accounts controlled
by the Wens in Horseheads and Elmira, to be distributed for their personal
use, according to Hochul.
The three defendants are facing charges in federal district court of
conspiring to and making false material statements to federal agencies,
perpetrating a wire fraud scheme, and conspiracy to engage in financial
transactions with the proceeds of the false statement and wire fraud schemes
. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1 million
fine.
“The defendants took money intended to foster innovative research by small
businesses, and instead used for their own personal use,” Hochul said in a
statement. “This fraud scheme had the effect of depriving deserving
businesses of the opportunity for research funds, while simultaneously
hurting the very Western New York communities where the research and work
were most needed.”
The Wens are accused of fabricating letters of support and investment;
providing false information in research grant proposals and reports
regarding business entities, business employees, business/research
facilities, matching funds and investments; and providing falsified reports
and emails regarding how federal research funds were expended.
The Wens’ arrests followed a joint investigation by special agents from
multiple federal agencies, including the FBI.
Online reports list Bin Wen as vice president and senior research scientist
with United Environment and Energy LLC, a Horseheads company; and Haifang
Wen as a civil engineering professor and researcher at Washington State
University and director of the Washington Center for Asphalt Technology,
which is affiliated with the university.
Several articles published in 2014, including one on the Washington State
University website, cover how Haifang Wen was developing a way to use waste
cooking oil instead of petroleum to make “green” asphalt for roads.
It was not clear Wednesday how long Bin and Pang Wen lived in Horseheads or
when they moved to Great Falls, Va. | w********e
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