Professor’s Bail Set at $400,000 in Fraud
Bail has been set at $400,000 for a UCLA professor accused of bilking $1 million from research grants through fraudulent hiring and purchasing schemes.
Electrical engineering professor Cavour Yeh, 55, secured the bail through his property holdings and did not have to pay cash bail, according to Assistant U.S. Atty. Nathan Hochman.
Cavour was indicted last week by a federal grand jury, along with two of his sisters, a brother and a brother-in-law. Bail for each of those four was set at $50,000, Hochman said. The indictment alleged that Cavour put three of those relatives on the payroll, when in fact they did no work and kicked back money to the professor.
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