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Newly unsealed documents reveal the FBI is investigating a former Indiana University professor for potential misuse of federal research grants.
The professor, XiaoFeng Wang, and his wife were fired from the university in March around the same time the FBI searched their homes.
Federal agents were looking for evidence of false statements, theft, bribery, and wire fraud related to federal funding.
No charges have been filed against Wang, and his attorney did not comment on the recent developments.
This story has been updated to correct Riana Pfefferkorn's name and clarify XiaoFeng Wang's previous research affiliations.
A shroud of secrecy has surrounded the motive behind the FBI raid and firing of a Chinese professor at Indiana University earlier this year. Now, new