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Massachusetts College Professor And Law Student Face Criminal Charges Ranging From Assault, Guns And White Collar Crime ? Attorney Sam?s Take

By Altman & Altman

This week has not been a good one as far as the reputation of ?higher learning? is concerned...and, for once, it had nothing to do with either drugs or bullying! First of all, there is the case of Falmouth?s own Luk Van Parijs (hereinafter, ?Penalized Prof.?, who has just pleaded guilty in Boston?s federal court to white collar crimes. Penalized Prof. Is a 40-year-old former associate professor of biology from MIT. He was fired in 2005 for falsifying data in scientific papers. The papers concerned experimentation about generating a transgenic mouse in his lab. The charge was making a false statement in a federal research grant application, the US Attorney's Office said. He is due to be sentenced in June. He faces the potential of five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on March 03, 2011 (boomark / email).