[tome]

You can hardly accuse people of the theft of millions or billions if what they've done with it is buy research equipment and fund conferences.

They've appropriated it for their own ends, sure. But that's what academia everywhere does without having to give much of a justification.

[dantheman]

If you lie/commit fraud to receive something it's theft. If they data was honestly misinterpreted then of course it's not, it's just a mistake. Also, this has nothing to do with current case, I haven't looked at it so I don't know what they did or did not do.