A US attorney is trying to keep secret the search warrants related to an FBI investigation into an IU cybersecurity expert.
The university fired professor XiaoFeng Wang the same day federal agents searched his homes in Carmel and Bloomington.
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Colleagues say IU had investigated Wang for a grant from China obtained in 2018. However, his department chair denies Wang knew about the grant, and neither IU nor the FBI has shared more information. The warrant would show the reason a judge allowed law enforcement to enter Wang’s homes.
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Stanford legal scholar Rianna Pfefferkorn submitted a motion to unseal those warrants in early April. Wang has not been charged with a crime.
District attorney John Childress responded to the motion last week by saying the investigation would be disrupted if the warrants don’t remain sealed.
