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After years of negotiations U of Florida and faculty union reach contract agreement

Gainesville Sun: UF and faculty union reach contract agreement

The University of Florida’s faculty union has reached agreement on a new contract, after years of negotiations and recent weeks in which a last-ditch deal threatened to fall apart.

United Faculty of Florida and administration negotiators reached agreement late Monday. Union members and UF’s Board of Trustees must still approve the three-year contract, but union chapter president John Biro said it was “almost certain” that would happen

U Florida professor, wife charged with fraud

Gainesville Sun: UF professor, wife charged with fraud

A University of Florida nuclear engineering professor and his wife were arrested Friday in Gainesville on charges they fraudulently obtained $3.7 million in government contracts and diverted money into personal bank accounts to buy cars and homes.

Samim Anghaie, 60, and his wife, Sousan Anghaie, 55, are accused of submitting false information, including research taken from UF students without their knowledge, in contract proposals to NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy. They are alleged to have diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars earned from those contracts into their bank accounts and the accounts of their sons.