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Florida professor, wife accused of stealing money from NASA
(CNN) -- Federal authorities raided the office of a University of Florida professor on Wednesday who, along with his wife, is suspected of defrauding NASA.

The FBI searched the school's Innovative Nuclear Space Power and Propulsion Institute, founded by Samim Anghaie, and his office on campus, said university spokesman Steve Orlando. Anghaie is a professor of radiological engineering.

FBI spokesman Jeff Westcott would only confirm the searches on campus, referring all questions to the U.S. attorney's office. Calls to the U.S. attorney's office were not returned Wednesday.

According to an affidavit filed February 19, investigators from the FBI and NASA said that since 1999, the government has awarded 13 contracts to the couple's company, New Era Technology Inc. (NETECH), and deposited $3.4 million into the company's corporate account. Investigators allege they diverted much of the money from the corporate account into personal accounts to buy cars and property.

According to NETECH's Web site, the company was established in 1988 as a research and development firm to perform "high-tech, cutting edge research." It boasts "a highly skilled staff of research scientists, engineers, and physicists" and lists NASA, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy among its employers.

Anghaie's wife, Sousan, is president of NETECH, which is listed under the couple's residential address in Gainesville, according to court documents. The couple have two sons; Hamid, 28, and Ali, 31.

Since 2001, Hamid Anghaie, who lives in Tampa, has been director and vice president of the company. Before Hamid took over, his father had the post, according to court documents.

Ali Anghaie, who lives in Manchester, Connecticut, works for an aerospace firm, Pratt & Whitney, also listed among NETECH's employers.

Calls to the home of Samim and Sousan Anghaie were not immediately returned Wednesday.

Authorities said the Anghaies took advantage of two federal grant programs set up to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector and strengthen the role of small businesses.

Under the NETECH name, they "submitted multiple fraudulent certified contract proposals to NASA, in order to receive the maximum funding for proposed research contracts," according to court documents.

The couple allegedly submitted fraudulent invoices to reimburse payments to "alleged employees," which ultimately resulted in the government overpaying the company, the documents say.

The money was allegedly diverted to personal accounts through the intentional overpayment of employees, including Samim Anghaie, or the payments made to "illegitimate" employees, including the two sons, according to the documents.

Samim Anghaie, who has worked for the University of Florida for nearly 30 years, has been placed on administrative leave with pay, Orlando said.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
which defense department projects are you willing to cut?

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I'd start by raising their gorram taxes.

And THEN I'd start the indictments.

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which defense department projects are you willing to cut?

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Mike, you missed the RAPfact where military spending is only 16% of the budget. According to that you have no case.

"Thanks." -Hero, 2009

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Originally posted by AURaptor:


It is only 16% of the Federal Budget.

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And take away their jets.

"Thanks." -Hero, 2009

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For the 2009 fiscal year, the base budget rose to US$515.4 billion. Adding emergency discretionary spending and supplemental spending brings the sum to US$651.2 billion.[1] This does not include many military-related items that are outside of the Defense Department budget, such as nuclear weapons research, maintenance and production (about $9.3 billion, which is in the Department of Energy budget), Veterans Affairs (about $33.2 billion), interest on debt incurred in past wars, or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (which are largely funded through extra-budgetary supplements, about $170 billion in 2007). As of 2009, the United States government is spending about $1 trillion annually on defense-related purposes.

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Military discretionary spending accounts for more than half of the U.S. federal discretionary spending, which is all of the U.S. federal government budget that is not appropriated for mandatory spending

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It is only 16% of the Federal Budget.

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Yes, of course.

"Thanks." -Hero, 2009

The laughing Chrisisall

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SIG, your info is in error, sorry

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It is only 16% of the Federal Budget.

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Where's the money coming from?

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We'll just have to get rid of the military.

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We'll just have to get rid of the military.

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Great answer Chris. Stick your head back in the ground and trust Pelosi. Good boy.

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Do away with what amounts to the PRIMARY function of the Federal Government?

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Hey, uh, are we doing what Russia did?

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Y'know, spending ourselves out of relevance? Did the terrorists plan for us to kill ourselves?

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Yes and yes.

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Great answer Chris. Stick your head back in the ground and trust Pelosi. Good boy.

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I trust no one more than myself. And I don't know how far I could throw me.

If we ultimately crash, it will be Bush that did it to us with his stupid grudge match with Saddam.
9-11 required a response, not a suicide.

"Thanks." -Hero, 2009

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Too bad the facts don't support your irrational partisan ranting.

If anything, it was Clinton, Dodd, Frank et al. Bush's war on Islamo-terror cost us nothing to the housing fiasco that the Dems put us in.

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That is totally delusional and dishonest. Bush gave us 1 trillion debt and Obama/Pelosi are piling on 3 trillion more...but you don't see or admit it.

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citizen, we tried the articles of confederation.

It didn't work.

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YOU FRIGGIN' LYING MORON!

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citizen, we tried the articles of confederation.

It didn't work.

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Mike, you missed the RAPfact where military spending is only 16% of the budget. According to that you have no case.

"Thanks." -Hero, 2009

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It is only 16% of the Federal Budget. Sure as hell isn't 52%. Sorry to burst your ill- conceived and distorted view of the world.



It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

A concern of the GOP is that the people aren't informed enough to understand their policies, while a fear of the Dems is that the people ARE.

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You DO know we tried another before we adopted the one we currently have, and have been using for the past 222 yrs, right ?

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"the Dems put us in"

Damnnit Rapo, will you please stop repeating that LIE!

1) Fannie and Freddie only held about 15% of toxic loans. They were a small part of the problem, because they were operating under a consent decree just when the mortgage market took off. It was deregulated banks, mortgage lenders, deregulated investment firms and stupid consumers that got us in this mess!

2) The REPUBS were in charge of Congress during that time. They held the chairs and the majority votes in all committees in all of Congress!Neither Dodd (Senate) nor Frank (House) had the power to kill a bill in committee.

If you repeat that FALSEHOOD one more time I'm gonna dog you on it, the same as I keep dogging you about that "on fire" economy" and those "UN Resolutions" about Iraq: BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT, YOU FRIGGIN' LYING MORON!

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Actually, I did some checking, and 'Rap is somewhat correct on this one.

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The GOP didn't have but the smallest of numerical margins, and there were enough RINOS...

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housing avalanche fell on the U.S. Economic system

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Sig

You're wrong, on all counts.

I'm right.

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