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Homeland Security Investigations Analyst Found Guilty of False Statements

TUCSON, Ariz. – On March 6, 2019, Gregg A. Johnson, 42, of Tucson, Ariz., was found guilty by a federal jury of three counts of submitting false statements to a government agency.

The case was tried before U.S. District Court Judge James A. Soto. Sentencing is set for May 20, 2019.

The evidence at trial established that, beginning in October, 2015, Johnson submitted three applications for federal employment with Homeland Security Investigations.

In each application, Johnson falsely claimed that he had a Master of Arts in Theology and a Bachelor of Science in Sociology.

Johnson worked as a Computer Forensic Analyst for Homeland Security Investigations

All of the positions Johnson applied for required a Top Secret Security clearance.

A conviction for false statements to a government agency is a felony that carries a maximum penalty of five (5) years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.

The investigation in this case was conducted by the Office of Professional Responsibility, Department of Homeland Security-ICE.

The prosecution was handled by the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona.

CASE NUMBER: CR-19-114-TUC-JAS (EJM)

RELEASE NUMBER: 2019-029_ Johnson

https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/homeland-security-investigations-analyst-found-guilty-false-statements

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Gregg Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical engineering technology and chair of the Department of Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology at Point Park, has more than 15 years of experience working in and directing research and development teams in a wide range of environments, from government research labs to start-up companies to multinational corporations. Most recently, he was manager of hardware engineering at Cisco Systems in Atlanta, Ga. He has extensive hands-on engineering, manufacturing, and overall product-development expertise in analog and digital hardware design; fiber optic sensors and sensing techniques; design of fiber optic communication components and systems; design of highly sensitive and precise instrumentation; and nonlinear electronic systems and novel control techniques.

In addition, Johnson has seven years of college-level teaching experience including class lectures, lab instruction, and private instruction and tutoring. Johnson has filed 10 U.S. patent applications (seven granted to date) and has written more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in journals relating to physics and engineering. He also has done a wide range of conference proceedings spanning the topics of nonlinear dynamics and chaos, structural monitoring and optical fiber sensors and instrumentation.

https://www.pointpark.edu/Academics/Schools/SchoolofArtsandSciences/Departments/NaturalSciencesandEngineeringTechnology/NaturalSciEngTechFacStaff/GreggJohnson

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