Department of Justice

They Are Lawyers, Not Physicists

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The Justice Department has dropped wire fraud charges against Xi Xiaoxing, chairman of Temple University's physics department. Prosecutors had claimed Xi had sent to China the schematics for a device called a pocket heater that he'd signed an agreement to keep secret. But a number of scientists, including the device's inventor, provided sworn statements that the blueprints the government said he sent were not for the pocket heater.