Newly unsealed warrant shows search of fired IU professor’s homes part of federal funding fraud investigation

Federal agents seized electronic devices owned by a former IU professor and cybersecurity expert in connection with an investigation into suspected research funding fraud, newly unsealed records confirm.

IU fired tenured professor XiaoFeng Wang in late March, the same day U.S. agents raided properties in Bloomington and the Indianapolis area.

A federal judge in Indianapolis unsealed the files in response to a motion by Stanford University policy researcher Riana Pfefferkorn…

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