John Reece Roth, 71, a prominent plasma physicist was sentenced for 18 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud and violations of the Arms Export Control Act, after he allowed a Chinese graduate student to see sensitive information on Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs). Despite warnings from his University's Export Control Officer, in 2006, he took a laptop containing sensitive plans with him on a lecture tour in China. He also allowed graduate students Xin Dai of China and Sirous Nourgostar of Iran to work on the project. The contract he was working under prohibited the sharing of sensitive data with foreign nationals.
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