Tennessee professor indicted by grand jury in high tech export plot
Knoxville News Sentinel: Professor emeritus J. Reece Roth, 70, from the University of Tennessee is accused of giving two graduate research assistants - one from Iran and another from the People's Republic of China - unfettered and unauthorized access to sensitive military arms information and lying about it.
A federal grand jury on Tuesday returned an 18-count indictment against Roth, alleging that he had used his technology firm to violate the Arms Export Control Act, which bars the transfer of sensitive technology to foreign countries.
Roth is accused of conspiring with former UT physicist Daniel Max Sherman, 37, to keep the US State Department in the dark about the work of two foreign nationals on U.S. Air Force defense contracts awarded to Knoxville firm Atmospheric Glow Technologies Inc.
Sherman in April struck a plea deal, agreeing to cooperate in a probe of Roth and AGT.
A federal grand jury on Tuesday returned an 18-count indictment against Roth, alleging that he had used his technology firm to violate the Arms Export Control Act, which bars the transfer of sensitive technology to foreign countries.
Roth is accused of conspiring with former UT physicist Daniel Max Sherman, 37, to keep the US State Department in the dark about the work of two foreign nationals on U.S. Air Force defense contracts awarded to Knoxville firm Atmospheric Glow Technologies Inc.
Sherman in April struck a plea deal, agreeing to cooperate in a probe of Roth and AGT.
