LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say a former UCLA physics professor has agreed to plead guilty and to pay nearly $1.7 million in penalties for defrauding the federal government.

A U.S. attorney’s statement says 75-year-old Alfred Wong agreed Thursday to admit submitting phony invoices for nanotechnology research he was performing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and other agencies.

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