… and never was a speaker better chosen. Wong, not long ago head of UCLA’s Plasma Physics Lab, has devoted his life to thinking about how to amass mucho green from the government and from UCLA. A venerable 75 years old, he has pled guilty to stealing millions upon millions of greenbacks from these generous sources by…
You know the deal. You’ve read this blog long enough to know how the phony invoice thing works.
Wong created fictitious invoices at [one of his businesses] that claimed [it] had manufactured and sold to [another of his businesses] certain nanotechnology components. Fraudulent invoices totaling $160,000 were then submitted to the Defense Department for payment. Wong also caused [his businesses] to submit false vouchers to the Department of Interior for improvements on his privately owned land, as well as equipment and labor costs unrelated to the government Department contract.
He could go to prison for five years.
UCLA might give some thought to taking this page down. And… he keeps being described as emeritus. With all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto?