Federal authorities indicted a Southern Illinois University mathematics professor and researcher on wire fraud and false statements charges for failing to disclose the support he was receiving from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and a Chinese state-run university. According to the indictment filed with the U.S. District Court in Southern Illinois, Professor Mingqing Xiao defrauded the National Science Foundation (NSF) for $151,099 by concealing the support he was receiving from the Chinese regime. “Again, an American professor stands accused of enabling the Chinese government’s efforts to corruptly benefit from U.S. research funding by lying about his obligations to, and support from, an arm of the Chinese government and a Chinese public university,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers with the Justice Department’s National Security Division said in a statement. “Honesty and transparency about funding sources lie at the heart of the scientific research enterprise. They enable U.S. agencies to distribute scarce grants for scientific …