A researcher at the University of Kansas (KU) has been indicted on federal charges of hiding the fact he was working full time for a Chinese university while doing research at KU funded by the U.S. government. Feng “Franklin” Tao, 47, of Lawrence, Kansas, an associate professor at KU’s Center for Environmentally Beneficial...

Defense contractor Vista Machining Co. has been charged with making false claims about the aluminum he provided for U.S. military aircraft landing gears. Ross Hyde, owner of the company faces up to five years in prison if convicted. But inspectors said many of his products were cheap replacements, some illegally obtained from...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General is alerting the public about a fraud scheme involving genetic testing. Scammers are offering Medicare beneficiaries cheek swabs for genetic testing to obtain their Medicare information for identity theft or fraudulent billing purposes. Fraudsters are targeting beneficiaries...

According to an article in STAT News, AveXis, the gene therapy subsidiary of Swiss pharma company Novartis, was aware of “data manipulation” involving its Zolgensma gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy before it was approved in May, but did not inform the Food and Drug Administration until later, the agency said Tuesday....

A Chinese national living in the United States on a student visa was sentenced today to 37 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for his role in a scheme to traffic and smuggle counterfeit Apple products, including phony iPhones and iPads, from China into the United States.

American International Group, the insurance giant has agreed to pay $725 million to three Ohio pension funds to settle  claims of accounting fraud, stock manipulation and bid-rigging. The money will go to firefighters, teachers, librarians and other pensioners. Ohio’s attorney general, that it was the 10th largest securities class-action settlement in United...