A professor from Temple University was charged with four counts of wire fraud and arrested last week.

Business Insider posted the AP Wire story:

A Temple University professor faces 80 years in prison over charges that he passed tech secrets to China

The chairman of Temple University’s physics department schemed to provide U.S. technology secrets to China in exchange for prestigious appointments for himself, federal authorities said in charging him with four counts of wire fraud.

Xi Xiaoxing, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in China, appeared in federal court Thursday in Philadelphia and was released on $100,000 bond. A person answering the phone Friday at his home in Penn Valley said he wasn’t available to comment.

He faces up to 80 years in prison and a $1 million fine if convicted.

Prosecutors said the 47-year-old Xi had participated in a Chinese government program involving technology innovation before he took a sabbatical in 2002 to work with a U.S. company that developed a thin-film superconducting device containing magnesium diboride.