Harvard Scientist Faces 26yrs Prison & $1.2MN Fine for Hidden Ties to Chinese Recruitment & Wuhan
12/22/2021- 3:34 p.m.
Harvard Scientist Faces 26yrs Prison & $1.2MN Fine for Hidden Ties to Chinese Recruitment & Wuhan
Harvard professor Charles Lieber has been convicted of lying to authorities about his ties to China’s “Thousand Talents Plan” program – designed to attract the best foreign specialists.
Boston prosecutors said he knowingly hid a Chinese bank account into which he was paid a salary of $37k, living expenses of $158k and a $1.5MN grant to establish a research lab, all at the Wuhan University of Technology.
His income was not declared illegal, but failure to disclose them was. Lieber had also been awarded $15MN in grants from the US National Institute of Health and Defense Dept. (Harvard Crimson)
