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US charges MIT professor Gang Chen with failing to disclose Chinese ties
A mechanical engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was arrested on US charges that he failed to disclose his ties to the Chinese government when seeking federal grant money.Federal prosecutors in Boston on Thursday charged Gang Chen, a Chinese-born mechanical engineer and nanotechnologist, with defrauding the US Department of Energy when seeking grants and failing to disclose on a tax return a China-based bank account.A representative for MIT did not respond…