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Aquasent, LLC and Company Officials to Pay $400,000 to Resolve Allegations of Misuse of NSF Grant Funds

Investigative press release

 

AQUATIC SENSOR NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, LLC, (“AQUASENT”) and several of its officials and employees, namely Dr. Jun-Hong Cui, Dr. Yong Ma, Dr. Shengli Zhou, Dr. Zhijie Shi, and Juanjuan Liao, have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the government in which the company and the named officials will pay $400,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the federal False Claims Act and the common law in the management of federally-funded grants awarded to AQUASENT by the NSF.