A federal jury found Harvard Professor Charles M. Lieber guilty on all felony counts of lying about working for communist Chinese programs.
A federal jury found Harvard University Professor Charles M. Lieber,62, guilty on all felony counts of lying about his history working for programs operated by the Chinese communist government. Lieber was first charged by federal officials last summer with two counts of “making materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” about his ties to communist China’s Thousand Talents program to the U.S. Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health, two counts of tax offenses including refusing to report income he received from the Wuhan University of Technology, and two counts of failing to report foreign bank accounts. Following his arrest in January 2020 and the subsequent revocation of his passport, Harvard placed Lieber, the chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, on indefinite paid leave.
