What is the violation he is accused of?
In their initial investigation, the Justice Department sought charges under Section 175 of the US Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, as expanded by the USA PATRIOT Act, Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 10 Sec. 175 – Prohibitions with respect to biological weapons. Read the Patriot Act Sec. 817: Expansion of the Biological Weapons Statue Possible sentence of 20 years for “mail fraud” charges On June 29, 2004, a federal Grand Jury appeared to reject those charges and instead handed down indictments of 2 counts each of “mail fraud” and “wire fraud” under Title 18, United States Code, sections 1341 and 1343. Also indicted was Robert Ferrell, former head of the Department of Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public Health, and a collaborator on several of CAE’s projects. (Since Ferrell is ill at this point, his case has been indefinitely postponed.) The charges concern technicalities of how Ferrell allegedly helped Kurtz obtain $256 worth of harmless bacteria for one
