The former chief scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute hasto conspiring to defraud Georgia Tech and the Central Intelligence Agency, the federal government revealed.
He added:"The seven-year delay in resolving Maloney’s case resulted from Maloney’s ploy to evade criminal liability by threatening to reveal classified information during the course of his trial in a failed attempt to force the government to dismiss the case. But as Maloney discovered, the government will not be bullied or threatened by a criminal defendant."
During this time, they worked on projects funded by the Department of Defense, various intelligence agencies and the private sector, Buchanan said.the fraudulent activities included misusing a Georgia Tech credit card known as a"PCard." Fraley had access to the card and was only supposed to use it for official business expenses and the three men falsely represented personal purchases as business expenses.