FBI raids University of Florida nuclear power institute

[cobalt1999]

Source: Tampa Tribune

FBI raids Univ. of Florida nuclear power institute

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A nuclear space power institute at the University of Florida has been raided by the FBI.

Supervisory Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Rhew in Tallahassee says search warrants were served at the university's Innovative Nuclear Space Power and Propulsion Institute.

Rhew would not comment on the target of the investigation, but University of Florida spokesman Steve Orlando says the FBI was in the office of professor Samim Anghaie, the Iranian-born director of the institute.

Rhew would not comment on the investigation but did say no arrest warrants have been issued.



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Not much more than that so far. Sounds like a concern about either secrets or materials getting into the wrong hands.

[UndertheOcean]

1. wonder what's this about ?

[YDogg]

2. Tim Tebow's secret power source

[bananas]

9. Sounds like fraud.

A lot more details in this story:

http://www.floridatoday.com/content/blogs/space/2009/02/nasa-feds-investigating-uf-prof.shtml

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Court documents allege that NETECH submitted fraudulent proposals to NASA for proposed research contracts. As a result, NETECH received several NASA contracts. NETCH is also accused of submitting fraudulent invoices to NASA which represented hours worked by alleged employees.

Investigators allege that Anghaie and his wife diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars of illegally obtained government funds from their corporate bank account to their personal accounts.

The government alleges that some of the money was diverted to their sons, Ali Anghaie and Hamid Anghaie.

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The federal government filed the documents as part of a motion seeking to seize six cars, six pieces of real estate in Ft. Lauderdale, Gainesville, Manchester, Conn. and Tampa, and several bank accounts.

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[JJ]

3. Why does this sound familiar?

Something about Florida and a University professor.

[UndertheOcean]

4. Al-Arian case you mean ?

[cobalt1999]

5. More on the professor

According to a biography, Anghaie received his doctoral degree in nuclear engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1982.

Anghaie has been chairman of the faculty council and director of the College of Engineering Academic Personnel Board. He was also on the faculty at Oregon State University.

He has been visiting professor at the Naval Research Lab and a technical adviser at Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. company, and a senior scientist at Rockwell International/Rocketdyne Division.

He has also been a consultant to the U.S. government and industries in the areas of space nuclear power and propulsion, advanced reactors, thermal hydraulics, and computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer.

Anghaie has served on and chaired several research advisory boards and review panels for the National Research Council, NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Department of Defense.

Results of Anghaie's research has been published in more than 500 papers and reports.

[Grinchie]

6. Maybe he found a clean renewable energy source that the Military wants

He certainly has a long pedigree of work with the Wilitary Industrial complex.

Maybe he tried to steal a students Homemade HHO Elctrolyzer and claim it as his own.

[populistdriven]

7. he reportedly was trying to open a crack in the rift that leads to a parallel world

The first black president of the United States, believes that the new "alter-Earth" could be colonized and become a home for the seventy million people that are being kept in cryopreservation. Known as bibs, these are people - mostly members of ethnic minority groups - who decided to be "put to sleep" until a time when the overpopulation problem is solved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crack_in_Space

[Peace Patriot]

8. I would only say this, for now. There are still A LOT OF Bushwhacks in the FBI,

the DoJ, the CIA, the military and other agencies. Keep your Skeptic Hat on for anything they allege about anybody. And, of course, read corpo/fascist 'news' reports with a careful eye, as well.

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. Iranian-born

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I think that we know what this is about

But we'll get ten different versions

None of them true

Sorta like imprisoning all the Japanese that had NOTHING to do with Pearl Harbor

I expect to see more of this

something to ponder . .