So apropos of my question last night about who paid for the GATech researchers, I remembered that @ProfMJCleveland had sent FOIA requests to the University, so I asked her if any related to when the billing to DARPA began, & one did. See her tweet here 👇
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https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1493727304807325696
Since the USAF wouldn't concur w/DARPA to let GATech bill on to contract before it was officially awarded, that most likely means GATech paid for the research work. This is important for the issue of whether there was mis-billing to the federal govt by Joffe; it appears not./2
That would support my analysis yesterday that Joffe appears to have off-loaded the costs of the research he was doing to his company that doesn't have a govt contract & to someone else - turns out it was GATech. This helps him avoid a criminal false claim charge. /3
It appears that he knows exactly where the criminal line is on govt contracts and he was careful to stay on the good side of it. It does also support an inference, however, that he knew what he was doing was not kosher, so he structured it in a way that would minimize fallout. /4
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