Update: Export Controls Violations
Former University of Tennessee Professor John Reece Roth was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for violating the Arms Export Control Act.
U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan said UT professor emeritus J. Reece Roth could have caused “harm to the security of the United States” by allowing foreign national students, one from China and one from Iran, to work on a contract to produce technology to be used on unmanned Air Force drones.
Varlan noted that the Air Force was forced to scrap the research out of fear it had been compromised, although there was no testimony at Roth’s trial last year that any foreign government actually had accessed the information or that Roth ever had tried to sell or give the information to foreign governments.
Roth repeatedly has said he did not believe that mere research and the results of that research violated the Arms Export Control Act. However, Varlan said testimony showed Roth continued to allow foreign national students access to restricted data and even took various reports to China with him after he was twice warned by UT officials about the law.
Read the complete news article from KnoxNews.com
Read the Department of Justice’s Press Release.
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