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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA Purdue University professor and his wife have pleaded guilty to using more that $1 million in federal research funds for their own personal expenses.
Sixty-one-year-old Qingyou Han of West Lafayette is director of Purdue’s Center for Materials Processing Research. He and his wife, 53-year-old Lu Shao of Lakewood, Ohio, pleaded guilty Friday to a felony wire fraud charge in federal court in Hammond.
Federal prosecutors say Han admitted using $1.3 million in National Science Foundation funds for personal and family expenses. The money was funneled into Shao’s company, Hans Tech LLC, which served as a front to pay the couple’s expenses.
Purdue spokesman Tim Doty tells the Journal & Courier that school officials are aware of Han’s plea, and “will carefully consider the matter in light of its policies.”
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