Wisconsin Professor Gets Jail Time for Lying to Win Federal Grants

A professor of electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin here was sentenced last month to three months in jail and fined $10,000 for falsifying information on a federal grant application.

Federal prosecutors had not sought jail time for Leon Shohet, who had pleaded guilty to listing more corporate sponsors than he had actually attracted when he applied for millions of dollars from the National Science Foundation.

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