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Ceffer
2020 Jan 28, 11:19am
Ceffer
2020 Jan 28, 11:19am
LibbyFucks parting out the country for corrupto-bucks? Standard Operating Procedure under cover of noble Globalism, the great corruptions excuse.
"It's for the good of the country, the world, and increasing diversity. Just because I made a few millions/billions in 'commissions' on the side is irrelevant."
"It's for the good of the country, the world, and increasing diversity. Just because I made a few millions/billions in 'commissions' on the side is irrelevant."
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Bd6r
2020 Jan 28, 11:26am
Bd6r
2020 Jan 28, 11:26am
Don't know if he is a libbyfuck or not, he is not in ....studies department. Having said that, he is a Masshole so might be.
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FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut
2020 Jan 28, 11:27am
FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut
2020 Jan 28, 11:27am
Biden sold US out for a couple of million to his offspring, this is peanuts over here in comparison.
And the whole Democratic party is defending that sell out, because corruption needs to be defended, not rooted out. Corrupt fucks!
And the whole Democratic party is defending that sell out, because corruption needs to be defended, not rooted out. Corrupt fucks!
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MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Feb 2, 1:40pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Feb 2, 1:40pm
MOAR! This one at Raytheon
https://archive.ph/NEDvJ#0%
When Wei Sun, a 48-year-old engineer at Raytheon Missile Systems, left for an overseas trip last year, he told the company he planned to bring his company-issued HP EliteBook 840 laptop along.
Sun, a Chinese-born American citizen, had been working at Raytheon, the fourth-largest US defense contractor, for a decade. He held a secret-level security clearance and worked on highly sensitive missile programs used by the US military.
Since Sun’s computer contained large amounts of classified data, Raytheon officials told him that taking it abroad would not only be a violation of company policy, but a serious violation of federal law, as well.
Sun had access to sensitive missile defense technology.
Sun didn’t listen, according to US prosecutors. While he was out of the country, Sun connected to Raytheon’s internal network on the laptop. He sent an email on Jan. 7, suddenly announcing he was quitting his job after 10 years in order to study and work overseas.
When Sun returned to the United States a week later, he told Raytheon security officials that he had only visited Singapore and the Philippines during his travels. But inconsistent stories about his itinerary led Sun to confess that he traveled to China with the laptop.
A Raytheon lawyer examined the machine, and confirmed it contained technical specifications prohibited from export by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), in addition to security software that is itself export-controlled and requires a special license to take outside the United States.
Sun was arrested by FBI agents the next day. His attorney, Cameron Morgan, did not respond to a request for comment. Raytheon said only that the company “cooperated with this investigation,” declining to elaborate further.
https://archive.ph/NEDvJ#0%
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Al_Sharpton_for_President
2020 Feb 2, 2:52pm
Al_Sharpton_for_President
2020 Feb 2, 2:52pm
Moffitt Cancer Center shakeup: CEO and others resign over China ties
The actions come amid a widening federal investigation of foreign attempts to take advantage of U.S.-backed medical research.
Dr. Alan List, the CEO and president of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, resigned under pressure Wednesday amid a controversy that linked him and others at the hospital to possible exploitation of American-funded research by China.
List was joined by Thomas Sellers, a vice president and director at Moffitt, and four of the cancer center’s researchers, who also resigned abruptly. The departures come during a time of heightened scrutiny by federal agencies of foreign attempts to take advantage of American-backed medical research. Among the investigating agencies is the National Institutes of Health, one of the largest funding sources for medical research in the world.
Timothy Adams, Moffitt’s board chairman, will assume responsibilities for operating the center while a national CEO search is underway.
Moffitt’s internal compliance office launched an internal investigation into the hospital’s partnership with any China research arms and found several “compliance violations,” officials said. Most were linked to Moffitt employees’ personal involvement in China’s “Thousand Talents” program, which is designed to recruit researchers and other experts from American and European universities and companies.
List, Sellers and others were found to have violated conflict of interest rules through their work in China. The center did not elaborate.
“About last summer, the NIH began warning institutions to be on alert,” Adams said. “Our compliance team spent countless hours reviewing the findings of the investigation in this unfortunate circumstance. I believe we took the appropriate action.”
The center’s namesake, former Florida House Speaker H. Lee Moffitt, also weighed in Wednesday. “This great institution did its job," he said in a statement. “We listened to the warnings from NIH, conducted a proactive review, and took strong action when it was needed.”
The actions of Moffitt’s CEO and implicated researchers are indefensible. To accept vast sums of public money - state and Federal - and then have the CEO and other employees secretly accepting money from China violates the public trust. https://twitter.com/TB_Times/status/1207402938391384064 …
The center shared the preliminary findings of its review with the federal government and is continuing to investigate. The Washington Post reported in July that the FBI is among the federal agencies working to tighten enforcement of disclosure rules regarding medical research funding and grant proposals, which can contain confidential information.
Officials said there is no indication that Moffitt research was compromised or that patient care has been affected.
Moffitt is also reviewing its 12-year research and education partnership with the Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, a 2,400-bed hospital outside of Beijing. Last year, Moffitt also celebrated five years of collaboration with China’s International Personalized Cancer Center. Both relationships gave the Tampa-based cancer center a physical presence in China.
Since 2008, Moffitt and Tianjin have conducted joint research projects. Graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, physician scientists and research nurses from Tianjin came to Moffitt from training, according a news release from 2018. The allure, the release said, is that Tianjin is located in a “free trade zone” that expedited approvals for clinical trials.
Moffitt was established in 1981 by the Florida Legislature and is the only National Cancer Institute-designated “comprehensive cancer center” in Florida. [Courtesy of Moffitt Cancer Center]
In 2016, List received the Hai River award while on a visit to China for the collaboration.
This “open exchange of ideas” between countries was once encouraged by the U.S. government, Moffitt officials said. But the Trump administration has become worried that foreign interests, especially China, are targeting American academic and medical centers to copy research and technology projects and steal intellectual property.
“We started that relationship at a time when foreign policy was about bringing China into the fold of the rest of the world,” Adams said. “We looked at that as a great opportunity to collaborate. Cancer knows no borders.”
Earlier this year, three scientists from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston were fired amid similar concerns. NIH investigation reports tied these researchers to institutions in China, and accused them of failing to disclose international collaborators. Others were fired at Emory University in Atlanta for similar allegations.
Federal officials have said that some scientists have been involved in "shadow laboratories” where American-funded research was being conducted in China instead of the United States.
List has been the CEO and president of Moffitt since 2012. Aside from his executive roles with the cancer hospital, he is still a practicing physician. He’s known for his work in treating myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia, cancers that start in bone marrow.
List was leading a push to expand the Moffitt campus across Tampa Bay, and had met with state lawmakers earlier this year to secure financial support. Adams said that project remains a top priority.
“The patient need remains the same. The need to cure this terrible disease remains the same,” Adams said. “I expect we will not miss a beat.”
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2019/12/18/moffitt-cancer-center-shakeup-ceo-and-others-resign-over-china-ties/
The actions come amid a widening federal investigation of foreign attempts to take advantage of U.S.-backed medical research.
Dr. Alan List, the CEO and president of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, resigned under pressure Wednesday amid a controversy that linked him and others at the hospital to possible exploitation of American-funded research by China.
List was joined by Thomas Sellers, a vice president and director at Moffitt, and four of the cancer center’s researchers, who also resigned abruptly. The departures come during a time of heightened scrutiny by federal agencies of foreign attempts to take advantage of American-backed medical research. Among the investigating agencies is the National Institutes of Health, one of the largest funding sources for medical research in the world.
Timothy Adams, Moffitt’s board chairman, will assume responsibilities for operating the center while a national CEO search is underway.
Moffitt’s internal compliance office launched an internal investigation into the hospital’s partnership with any China research arms and found several “compliance violations,” officials said. Most were linked to Moffitt employees’ personal involvement in China’s “Thousand Talents” program, which is designed to recruit researchers and other experts from American and European universities and companies.
List, Sellers and others were found to have violated conflict of interest rules through their work in China. The center did not elaborate.
“About last summer, the NIH began warning institutions to be on alert,” Adams said. “Our compliance team spent countless hours reviewing the findings of the investigation in this unfortunate circumstance. I believe we took the appropriate action.”
The center’s namesake, former Florida House Speaker H. Lee Moffitt, also weighed in Wednesday. “This great institution did its job," he said in a statement. “We listened to the warnings from NIH, conducted a proactive review, and took strong action when it was needed.”
The actions of Moffitt’s CEO and implicated researchers are indefensible. To accept vast sums of public money - state and Federal - and then have the CEO and other employees secretly accepting money from China violates the public trust. https://twitter.com/TB_Times/status/1207402938391384064 …
The center shared the preliminary findings of its review with the federal government and is continuing to investigate. The Washington Post reported in July that the FBI is among the federal agencies working to tighten enforcement of disclosure rules regarding medical research funding and grant proposals, which can contain confidential information.
Officials said there is no indication that Moffitt research was compromised or that patient care has been affected.
Moffitt is also reviewing its 12-year research and education partnership with the Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, a 2,400-bed hospital outside of Beijing. Last year, Moffitt also celebrated five years of collaboration with China’s International Personalized Cancer Center. Both relationships gave the Tampa-based cancer center a physical presence in China.
Since 2008, Moffitt and Tianjin have conducted joint research projects. Graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, physician scientists and research nurses from Tianjin came to Moffitt from training, according a news release from 2018. The allure, the release said, is that Tianjin is located in a “free trade zone” that expedited approvals for clinical trials.
Moffitt was established in 1981 by the Florida Legislature and is the only National Cancer Institute-designated “comprehensive cancer center” in Florida. [Courtesy of Moffitt Cancer Center]
In 2016, List received the Hai River award while on a visit to China for the collaboration.
This “open exchange of ideas” between countries was once encouraged by the U.S. government, Moffitt officials said. But the Trump administration has become worried that foreign interests, especially China, are targeting American academic and medical centers to copy research and technology projects and steal intellectual property.
“We started that relationship at a time when foreign policy was about bringing China into the fold of the rest of the world,” Adams said. “We looked at that as a great opportunity to collaborate. Cancer knows no borders.”
Earlier this year, three scientists from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston were fired amid similar concerns. NIH investigation reports tied these researchers to institutions in China, and accused them of failing to disclose international collaborators. Others were fired at Emory University in Atlanta for similar allegations.
Federal officials have said that some scientists have been involved in "shadow laboratories” where American-funded research was being conducted in China instead of the United States.
List has been the CEO and president of Moffitt since 2012. Aside from his executive roles with the cancer hospital, he is still a practicing physician. He’s known for his work in treating myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia, cancers that start in bone marrow.
List was leading a push to expand the Moffitt campus across Tampa Bay, and had met with state lawmakers earlier this year to secure financial support. Adams said that project remains a top priority.
“The patient need remains the same. The need to cure this terrible disease remains the same,” Adams said. “I expect we will not miss a beat.”
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2019/12/18/moffitt-cancer-center-shakeup-ceo-and-others-resign-over-china-ties/
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Hircus
2020 Feb 2, 6:07pm
Hircus
2020 Feb 2, 6:07pm
NoCoupForYou says
Why take the whole laptop to China? Seems it would be easier to just copy the files and send them to China via another computer while using starbucks wifi from the parking lot.
Hmm... maybe china actually wanted the laptop itself to study. Maybe Raytheon has recently changed their endpoint security software, and chyna wanted to play with it, so they can figure out how to hack it. Or maybe, copying the files off the computer, especially in bulk, would set off raytheon security. Maybe chyna had a way around it if he could bring the machine to them. I'm guessing bringing the HD alone wouldnt work, probably due to some kinda disk encryption that doesnt like hardware changes.
Another idea is that maybe they wanted his network access. The article said he VPN'd in while abroad. I would imagine many tech companies, especially defense contractors, keep their network analysis abilities (or, lack thereof) top secret. Maybe he logged in and let the chyna boss tell him what info to grab. If raytheon doesnt have good monitoring for what their employees access over the network, or even if they do monitor, but just not all, they would be embarrassed, and wouldnt want to disclose their vulnerability. So, the fact the article didn't say they stole data over vpn doesnt mean it didnt happen.
chyna could also install a network backdoor while they have network access, if theyre really on top of their game.
Anyway, sounds like he got paid pretty fat. Enough the leave his usa life behind. Although, maybe he wanted to leave anyway.
When Wei Sun, a 48-year-old engineer at Raytheon Missile Systems...
Why take the whole laptop to China? Seems it would be easier to just copy the files and send them to China via another computer while using starbucks wifi from the parking lot.
Hmm... maybe china actually wanted the laptop itself to study. Maybe Raytheon has recently changed their endpoint security software, and chyna wanted to play with it, so they can figure out how to hack it. Or maybe, copying the files off the computer, especially in bulk, would set off raytheon security. Maybe chyna had a way around it if he could bring the machine to them. I'm guessing bringing the HD alone wouldnt work, probably due to some kinda disk encryption that doesnt like hardware changes.
Another idea is that maybe they wanted his network access. The article said he VPN'd in while abroad. I would imagine many tech companies, especially defense contractors, keep their network analysis abilities (or, lack thereof) top secret. Maybe he logged in and let the chyna boss tell him what info to grab. If raytheon doesnt have good monitoring for what their employees access over the network, or even if they do monitor, but just not all, they would be embarrassed, and wouldnt want to disclose their vulnerability. So, the fact the article didn't say they stole data over vpn doesnt mean it didnt happen.
chyna could also install a network backdoor while they have network access, if theyre really on top of their game.
Anyway, sounds like he got paid pretty fat. Enough the leave his usa life behind. Although, maybe he wanted to leave anyway.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/01/28/massachusetts-china-indictments-charles-lieber-yanqing-ye-zaosong-zheng/
BOSTON (CBS) – Three people tied to universities and a hospital in the Boston area were indicted on charges they lied about their ties to China or tried to help the Chinese government. Among them was Dr. Charles Lieber, the chair of Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Prosecutors said Lieber had a contract with Wuhan Institute of Technology. He also ran a group which had contracts with the Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health.
Federal agents said Lieber lied about his ties to China when he bid on those contracts.
Lieber is extremely famous and has (had) some chance of getting Nobel. Apparently greed took the best of him. This type of arrangements is very common with China and Saudi Arabia, and finally US of A is going after that.
As a minimum, if you get paid to do research here full-time, you should not be taking employment in other places...as a maximum, do not transfer technology to hostile nations.