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Article: University Professor and Tennessee Company Indicted For Arms Export Control Act Violations
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- May 20, 2008
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1-
202-514-2007, TDD, +1-202-514-1888
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal
grand jury in the Eastern District of Tennessee returned an 18-
count indictment today charging J. Reece Roth, a Professor Emeritus
at The University of Tennessee, and Atmospheric Glow Technologies
Inc. (AGT), a Knoxville-based technology company, with conspiring to
defraud the U.S. Air Force and disclose restricted U.S. military
data about Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, to foreign
nationals without first obtaining the required U.S. government
license or approval.
The indictment was announced ...