RA UF Prof Fraud Charge

[Herbert Spencer]

Why screw around paying for Liberian accreditation for your mill, only to make a paltry $2 million for all your hard work, when you can score an easy $3.7 million from the US government as a professor at a "gold standard" RA university??

No need to even bother with all that tedious research--just copy off your students.

Fifty counts of wire fraud, 17 counts of money laundering and one count of making false statements to the government? Sounds a lot more severe than, say, the couple of puny counts of mail fraud and money laundering that Dixie was charged with. Wonder why the clones haven't mentioned a single word about it?

Where is Florida's resident investigative genius Goose to take a bow? Surely he must have solved this one all by himself, maybe while on his way to a judgment debtor exam?

UF professor, wife charged with fraud

They are accused of fraudulently obtaining $3.7 million in contracts.
By Nathan Crabbe
Staff writer

Published: Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 10:52 p.m.

A [regionally accredited] University of Florida nuclear engineering professor and his wife were arrested Friday in Gainesville on charges they fraudulently obtained $3.7 million in government contracts and diverted money into personal bank accounts to buy cars and homes.



Samim Anghaie, 60, and his wife, Sousan Anghaie, 55, are accused of submitting false information, including research taken from UF students without their knowledge, in contract proposals to NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy. They are alleged to have diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars earned from those contracts into their bank accounts and the accounts of their sons.

Anghaie started at UF in 1980 and was director of its Innovative Nuclear Space Power and Propulsion Institute. He and his wife also operated a Gainesville-based research company, New Era Technology.

In February, federal agents raided Samim Anghaie's UF office and seized the couple's property in the investigation. UF subsequently put him on administrative leave and cut off his access to funding, awards and university resources. He remains on leave.

University officials released a statement Friday saying they were cooperating with the investigation but could not comment about a personnel matter until its conclusion.

A federal grand jury indicted the couple on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, 50 counts of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, 17 counts of money laundering and one count of making false statements to the government. Sousan Anghaie also is charged in a separate count with making false statements.

They were arrested Friday morning by federal agents and had their first appearances in U.S. District Court in Gainesville. A $50,000 bond was set and they were released, according to federal officials.

If convicted, they face a maximum of 20 years' imprisonment on each of the conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering charges, and a maximum term of five years' imprisonment on each of the charges of making false statements.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars obtained from the contracts were diverted from New Era into the personal accounts of the couple and their sons, according to the indictment. The money was used to buy six vehicles as well as homes in Gainesville, Connecticut, Fort Lauderdale and Tampa, the indictment alleges.

The indictment also alleges that the couple submitted contract proposals and reports containing research and other work they falsely claimed were done by New Era. The information was taken from research projects, papers, theses and presentations of graduate and doctoral students at UF and used without their knowledge or permission, the indictment alleges.

The couple also submitted test information that they said was done at New Era but was done at the institute, UF's Major Analytical Instrumentation Center and a lab located in Russia, the indictment alleges. The indictment also alleges the couple falsely represented the company's number of employees, created fictitious employment records and submitted false conflict of interest forms to UF.

Their attorney, Lloyd Vipperman Jr., said Friday he was unable to comment on the case under court rules.

[ham]

Samim Anghaie

Thank g-d the Huns were defeated...otherwise mr. Samim Anghaie might not have had a chance to live in the great country USA...

[Don Dresden]

So while the feds were busy busy busy tricking Dixie with their fake foreigner mad scientists, here's a REAL foreign nuclear scientist giving multiple government agencies a serious crank yank.

This just shows what we have been saying all along, that terrorist mental cases interested in causing mischief don't need fake degrees to get into the country--they are already here, using real degrees at real schools.

Hopefully somebody will check the credentials of the rest of these loons they employ at federal research facilities, starting with that Fermilab thing. Might be somebody skulking around there who had 15 people write his dissertation for him.

Dr. Samim Anghaie
Hmm. Financial fraud or otherwise, this isn't the guy you want being pulled in by the FBI because he might be corrupt.

Link: Anghaie is professor of nuclear and radiological engineering and director of the Innovative Nuclear Space Power & Propulsion Institute at the University of Florida. But he's not just an academic. He has been an advisor and consultant to companies and government agencies, national labs and policy makers, and his involvement in nuclear technology is global in scope. (Watch for his comments on the status of Generation IV reactor development in the June issue of POWER.)

I recently had the opportunity to hear Anghaie at a colloquium hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). His audience consisted almost exclusively of LANL staff, several of whom Anghaie has consulted with over the years. His topic was the challenges and opportunities--especially for national labs--presented by the resurgence of interest in nuclear power.

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorou...ghaie.html

[ham]

He started at UF as a researcher in 1980 and has worked for the university since that time, except for a stint at Oregon State University from 1984 to 1986.

He now makes about $111,400 a year from UF.

As members of the Baha'i faith, Samim and Sousan Anghaie, who were born in Iran, applied for asylum in the U.S. on the basis of Iran's persecution of members of the religion, according to immigration documents. He is currently listed as a resident alien.

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090...-professor

Then little hulkamaniacs squeal because Iran got a nuclear program running...thank g-d for all those millions of super smart foreigners who obviously couldn't make their country a better place but are so eager to help you with yours...not only super intelligent, but above reproach, loyal to the great country that saved them from oppression, and most trustworthy, too...

[Herbert Spencer]

As members of the Baha'i faith, Samim and Sousan Anghaie, who were born in Iran, applied for asylum in the U.S. on the basis of Iran's persecution of members of the religion, according to immigration documents. He is currently listed as a resident alien.

Let's see, who is more likely to be a threat to national security, the "Liberian degree mill" selling useless diplomas to fake Iranians, or real Iranians pretending to be "members of the Baha'i faith" so they can "escape persecution" while ripping off the taxpayers for $3.7 million in the nuclear science department of a major RA gold standard university??????

Hmmm, that Baha'i faith, isn't that the same as Kahlil Greene? He only hit .200 this season, doesn't sound like much of an offensive threat to me.

Greene took several weeks off during May and June 2009, after it was revealed that he was possibly injuring himself in mental anguish (revealed to be social anxiety disorder).... He is an adherent of the Baha'i Faith, and says his faith has helped his athletic performance mentally.

Yeah, we see how that Baha'i Faith helps you mentally. Definitely the kind of stable people we want to let into the country and--what the hell, let's share all our nuclear technology with them too!!?

[ham]

Will not righteous groups of hippies, idlers and other grievance shoppers disrupt mr. Anghaie's livelihood as they do with Valdas Anelauskas, former soviet dissident ushered to the USA on red carpet when he was useful to bad mouth the dying USSR, but then discarded as an used tampon when it was discovered he was a right wing nationalist who denounced cultural marxism?
As far as I know, Anelauskas did not cost the public a penny...
He gave an interesting lecture on the Frankfurt School in a sordid place in Oregon; his sin was to mention that many prominent marxist theorists were from Jewish milieus and that qualified him as next genocidal threat...
Thugs raided the places he spoke to and he was prevented from earning a living as a speaker doing...exactly what he had been begged to come and do in other times...speaking against marxism...go figure...
The difference between cultural and mainstream marxism shall not escape: criticizing marxism is ok, but cultural marxism is the secret doctrine of an overwhelming portion of the cultural establishment.
Well, some may think this Anelauskas is some bottom shelf activist none cared about really, but for a short while he was paraded around and serenaded prominent conservative lobbies...
If you scout, you'll find out that a sizable portion of reactions to this shameful scandal conclude that it all is a plot against a top shelf scientist (both he AND his wife, apparently ) who brought us so much expertise and who -maybe, just maybe- kept sloppy accounts...
My opinion?
Another third world crook with a degree in a fancy-sounding field...
In some regions of the world they can't seem to bring infant mortality to levels lower than the 1900s, but are so much smarter in nuclear and aerospace and other hip fields...