On May 22, 12:00 am, "fyfp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Retired prof accused of passing military secrets
> > He allegedly violated arms act by involving Chinese student in drone
> > work
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> > updated 9:12 a.m. MT, Wed., May. 21,
2008http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/247=
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> > KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A retired University of Tennessee professor was
> > indicted Tuesday on charges of conspiring to provide military secrets
> > to a Chinese graduate student.
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> > J. Reece Roth, 70, a professor emeritus who headed the school's Plasma
> > Sciences Lab, faces 18 charges related to violating the Arms Ex****t
> > Control Act and trying to defraud the U.S. Air Force.
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> > The charges involve work performed from 2004 to 2006 by Roth, the
> > student and a university spinoff company for an Air Force contract to
> > develop flight controls for unmanned aircraft, or "drones."
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> > Prosecutors said Roth and the company he helped found, Atmospheric
> > Glow Technologies Inc., failed to get government permission before
> > involving foreign national Xin Dai in the work.
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> > The government also claims Roth carried sensitive do***ents on a
> > lecture trip to China in 2006 and directed wire transmissions of
> > restricted technical data to China.
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> > Xin was in the U.S. on a visa to work on his doctorate in electrical
> > engineering at the university. He was one of several students,
> > including an Iranian national, who worked on the contract. Atmospheric
> > Glow Technologies, which was started to market commercial applications
> > for the plasma lab's research, has since filed for Chapter 11
> > bankruptcy protection.
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> > Roth's attorney said his client did nothing illegal and has conducted
> > himself ethically and honestly.
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> > Could get 150 years in prison
> > The indictments come about two years after Roth was searched and
> > questioned by federal agents after returning from a trip to China. He
> > told The Knoxville News Sentinel in 2006 that all the work he
> > discussed abroad was already published in scientific papers and
> > journals.
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> > "Certainly the technology was complicated, the research they were
> > doing was complicated," attorney Thomas Dundon said Tuesday. "But I
> > don't think the facts of the case -- what was done, what was thought
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> > I don't think those are complicated."
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> > If convicted, Roth could face more than 150 years in prison and
> > millions of dollars in fines. He is expected to make an initial court
> > appearance next week.
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> > One of Roth's colleagues, physicist Daniel Max Sherman of Littleton,
> > Colo., 37, has pleaded guilty on related charges and is awaiting
> > sentencing, though he claimed he was unaware a law was broken.
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> The Chinese students wish the American professors to teach them how to
> play the
> stock option and forex market in order to be rich. Unfortunately, no
> one so far
> in this world has a fixed formula.
Warren Buffet has the formula.
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