Looks like he's been a serial offender. He receives funding for his research and his startup company "Unearthly Materials" is said to have collected funds from several major investors. This could be deemed a fraud.
Room temperature Superconducting claims end up being super-cons and if you are interested this is not the first or the last. Read about the Schön scandal.
Jan Hendrik Schön, joined Lucent Technologies' prestigious Bell Labs in 1998, just before finishing his Ph.D. in Konstanz, Germany. He received an award for scientific "Breakthrough of the Year," in 2001. He would have won a Nobel Prize. But a small group of researchers at Bell Labs contacted Princeton Physics Professor Lydia Sohn and whispered that all was not right with Schön's data. That led to his downfall and also probably contributed to Lucent's downfall too.
