Former chief scientist at Georgia Tech Research Institute headed to prison for fraud

ATLANTA — A former chief scientist for the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GRTI) has been sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison for defrauding both the university and the CIA.

James G. Maloney, 58, of Marietta and two co-conspirators used a Georgia Tech credit card that was supposed to go only toward purchases related to official university business and ran up hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal expenses.

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