The KNS reports J. Reece Roth (at left), the 73-year-old UT-Knoxville industrial-plasma and fusion engineer, who was convicted by a federal jury last year of plotting with Knoxville technology firm Atmospheric Glow Technologies Inc. to violate the Arms Export Control Act by repeatedly allowing two foreign-national graduate students access to information on a U.S. Air Force project and taking data about it to China in May 2006, will soon face sentencing, and may ask for a new trial. He reportedly attempted to devise a way to make assignments to the students that would purposefully circumvent export rules. He and his counsel argue he wasn't familiar enough with the rules to have committed a crime.
Monday, February 09, 2009
UT Prof faces sentencing for using FN grads on USAF Work
The KNS reports J. Reece Roth (at left), the 73-year-old UT-Knoxville industrial-plasma and fusion engineer, who was convicted by a federal jury last year of plotting with Knoxville technology firm Atmospheric Glow Technologies Inc. to violate the Arms Export Control Act by repeatedly allowing two foreign-national graduate students access to information on a U.S. Air Force project and taking data about it to China in May 2006, will soon face sentencing, and may ask for a new trial. He reportedly attempted to devise a way to make assignments to the students that would purposefully circumvent export rules. He and his counsel argue he wasn't familiar enough with the rules to have committed a crime.
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