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Riverside Man Ordered to Spend 46 Months in Federal Prison in His Second Federal Case Stemming from Sale of Bogus Aircraft Parts (PR-2022-H)
September 26, 2022 Aman Khan, also known as Amanullah Khan, was sentenced to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,538,054 in restitution for illegally selling counterfeit aircraft parts and falsifying supporting documentation. Khan’s intentional marketing of fraudulent and unapproved aircraft components posed significant risk to critical NASA flight technology.
Boulder Weather Research Organization and Officers Pay Over $2 Million to Resolve Investigation into Improper Use of Federal Grants for Scientific Research (PR-2022-AA)
Ocotber 21, 2021 DENVER –The Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR), a nonprofit organization in Boulder, Colorado, has paid over $2.4 million to resolve allegations that it engaged in fraud related to grants it received from three federal agencies: the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Oceanic […]
Texas Professor and NASA Researcher Arrested on Charges Related to China’s Talents Program (PR-2020-L)
August 24, 2020 Texas A&M University Professor Zhengdong Cheng, 53, was arrested and charged in a criminal complaint for conspiracy, making false statements, and wire fraud. The complaint charged that Cheng willfully took steps to obscure his affiliations and collaboration with a Chinese University and at least one Chinese-owned company.
Former NASA Contractor Employee Convicted for Substituting Foreign Materials for Domestic Materials To Be Used by NASA (PR-2019-L)
August 29, 2019 A federal jury found Jonathan Hipps, a former employee at STAT Industry, Inc., a company that provided parts and materials to the aerospace industry, including NASA, guilty of mail fraud, concealment of material facts from a federal agency, and providing a false document to a federal agency.
MassTech, Richard Lee and Arnold Lee to Pay U.S. $1.9 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Small Business Innovation Research Awards (PR-2018-B)
May 03, 2018 MassTech Inc., and its former executives, Richard Lee and Arnold Lee, agreed to pay $1.9 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently certifying as a small business in order to obtain federal funds intended for disadvantaged small businesses.
Thermacore, Inc. Settles False Claims Allegations (PR-2015-B)
October 20, 2014 PHILADELPHIA – Thermacore, Inc. (“Thermacore”) has agreed to a $965,000.00 settlement to resolve allegations of fraud arising as part of the Federal government’s Small Business Innovation Research (“SBIR”) program. According to the United States, Thermacore is responsible for duplicate SBIR awards submissions. The United States contends that these submissions, and the attendant […]