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Daniel Max Sherman
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January 2004 and May 2006, Daniel Sherman, J. Reece Roth, a Professor Emeritus at The University of Tennessee, and Atmospheric Glow Technologies, Inc., engaged in a conspiracy to transmit export controlled technical data related to a restricted United States Air Force contract to develop plasma actuators for a munitions-type Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), or "drones," to a foreign national from the People's Republic of China.
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Physicist Daniel Max Sherman will serve 14 months in prison in export violation case
Daniel Max Sherman was sentenced Monday to 14 months in federal prison for his involvement with a Knoxville company and former University of Tennessee professor who violated export laws by allowing foreign nationals to have access to military-related technical information. . . . Sherman, 38, faced a potential sentence of five years in prison and $250,000 fine.
But because of his cooperation in the federal investigation, prosecutors sought a lesser sentence of 28 months, twice that to which he was actually sentenced.
Sherman, a physicist, provided extensive information and documents to investigators that led to the conviction of UT Professor Emeritus John Reece Roth for violating the Arms Export Control Act.
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There is no evidence that Sherman profited beyond his salary with the firm, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Theodore said.
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Sherman was not part of that trip, but was involved when Roth and company allowed foreign nationals, including a Chinese graduate student, to work on their project.
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Another former Atmospheric Glow employee, Daniel Sherman, pleaded guilty in April to charges of conspiring with Roth to export the data… Roth is scheduled for sentencing in January.
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AGT and ex-employee Daniel Max Sherman, a physicist and former Roth student, have pleaded guilty……(Knoxville News, 3 Sep 08)
Roth testifies he was unaware students' work was in question
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…the trial of Professor J. Reece Roth for violation of the Arms Export Control Act continued today with the testimony of Daniel Max Sherman, the only officer of Atmospheric Glow Technologies ("AGT") to be indicted in the matter.
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Sherman previously pleaded guilty to export violations in connection with his involvement in the project and, it would appear, there is no love lost between Sherman and Professor Roth or between Sherman and his former employer.
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Sherman previously pleaded guilty to export violations in connection with his involvement in the project and, it would appear, there is no love lost between Sherman and Professor Roth or between Sherman and his former employer.
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Faced with a federal probe and a public scandal, a Knoxville technology firm tried to head off both with hardball tactics including lies and threats, a founding member testified Tuesday… it was the management team of Atmospheric Glow Technologies that found itself in the hot seat when physicist Daniel Max Sherman took the witness stand against his former instructor and mentor Tuesday.
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AGT and ex-employee Daniel Max Sherman, also a former UT physicist and Roth protegee, have struck plea deals in the case…..(Knoxville News, 26 Aug 08)
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Sherman in April struck a plea deal, agreeing to cooperate in a probe of Roth and AGT.
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One of Roth's colleagues, physicist Daniel Max Sherman of Littleton, Colo., 37, pleaded guilty in April to related charges and is awaiting sentencing, though he claimed he was unaware a law had been broken…..(AP, 20 Aug 08)
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His trial is set to begin on Monday…Another former Atmospheric Glow employee, Daniel Sherman, pleaded guilty in April to charges of conspiring with Roth to export the data.….(Reuters, 20 Aug 08)
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His trial is expected to begin next week (25 Aug 08) in Knoxville, Tenn… In April, an AGT physicist, Daniel Max Sherman, pleaded guilty to conspiracy for violating the Arms Export Control Act… According to Sherman's plea agreement, from 2005 to 2006, AGT provided Roth's graduate student, Xin Dai, a Chinese national, with weekly and quarterly reports about the program.
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Roth is accused of conspiring with former UT physicist Daniel Max Sherman, 37, to keep the U.S. State Department in the dark about the work of two foreign nationals on U.S. Air Force defense contracts awarded to Knoxville firm Atmospheric Glow Technologies Inc.
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Sherman in April struck a plea deal, agreeing to cooperate in a probe of Roth and AGT...The indictment alleges that Roth did not obtain permission to take the sensitive documents to China and lied to the Defense Department about his employment of Chinese foreign national Xin Dai and Iranian foreign national Sirous Nourgostar.
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An unusual criminal prosecution concerning a professor's assignment of a Chinese graduate student to work on an Air Force unmanned drone technology project is part of an ongoing federal crackdown on China's efforts to gain American technology through academic exchanges, business deals, and old-fashioned espionage…The Justice Department's latest case, which originated at the University of Tennessee, is unprecedented, according to several analysts, because it rests on the notion that academic researchers effectively exported sensitive technical information by letting a foreign student have access to it… In Knoxville, Tenn., on Tuesday, Daniel Sherman, 37, entered a guilty plea to conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control Act while he served as the director of plasma research at Atmospheric Glow Technologies, Inc.
Sherman and prosecutors said the conspiracy also involved a professor emeritus of electrical engineering who ran the plasma laboratory at the University of Tennessee, J. Reece Roth.
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In court papers, prosecutors said Sherman and Mr. Roth agreed to assign a Chinese graduate student, Xin Dai, to the military project without advising the Air Force or seeking a special export license…Xin Dai reportedly left the university in 2006.
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J. Reece Roth, a University of Tennessee professor emeritus in the department of electrical and computer engineering, won't be back for the fall semester…His comments came after a guilty plea in U.S. District Court from 37-year-old Daniel Max Sherman, former director of Plasma Sciences for Atmospheric Glow Technologies Inc. in Knoxville.
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The plea, in which Sherman agreed to skip a grand jury review of the case against him, bodes ill for Roth as its terms require Sherman to cooperate with federal prosecutors Will Mackie and Jeff Theodore in an ongoing probe of Roth and AGT.
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The plea, in which Sherman agreed to skip a grand jury review of the case against him, bodes ill for Roth as its terms require Sherman to cooperate with federal prosecutors Will Mackie and Jeff Theodore in an ongoing probe of Roth and AGT.
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Daniel Max Sherman pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to violating the Arms Export Control Act by allowing Chinese graduate student Xin Dai (shin-die) to work on a military contract……(AP, 15 Apr 08)
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Daniel Max Sherman, 37, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan to conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act, which bars the transfer of sensitive technology to other countries.
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Daniel Max Sherman pleads guilty to conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act.
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