Unfolding Story

From the LA Times: Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman Corp. said it is taking “immediate action” to look into a report that one of its engineers is part of a white nationalist group and was involved in violent brawls during last year’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. Investigative news outlet ProPublica and PBS documentary program “Frontline” identified Michael Miselis, 29, as a member of the Rise Above Movement, which they described as a Southern California group that “expresses contempt for Muslims, Jews and immigrants.” The Southern Poverty Law Center civil rights group describes the Rise Above Movement as a hate group, and categorizes it specifically as a white nationalist group...

Miselis could not immediately be reached for comment by The Times. When approached by ProPublica and “Frontline” in front of his home in Lawndale, Miselis said he “didn’t know anything” about what happened in Charlottesville and told the outlets, “I think you got the wrong guy.”...

Miselis is also a doctoral candidate in UCLA’s aerospace engineering program, according to ProPublica and “Frontline.” UCLA confirmed that, but said in a statement that he did not register for the spring or fall 2018 terms. “The allegations made in the ProPublica story are serious, and UCLA is reviewing them,” the university said in the statement...

Full story at http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-northrop-employee-20180705-story.html

Note: It's not clear that UCLA - as a public institution unlike Northrup-Grumman - can do more than "review" the matter and issue some kind of statement. Example from the past:
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/21/ucla-condemns-anti-semitic-facebook-post