A University of Kansas researcher whose work is funded by the U.S. government is charged with also working full time for a Chinese University. The U.S. Attorney’s office said in a statement that Feng “Franklin” Tao of Lawrence was indicted yesterday on fraud charges. The indictment comes on the heels of the FBI investigating a KU lab that does work on sustainable technology and allegedly received almost $40,000 in salary from government funding. But he also allegedly signed a contract in 2018 that made him a distinguished professor at a Chinese University. Tao did not tell KU about the Chinese professorship.
