Harvard Chemistry Chair Indicted for Lying About China Ties/Funding

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Academia is a major weapon in the war against America.

Former Harvard Chemistry Chair Indicted for False Statements About China Funding

By Cathy He and Eva Fu, Epoch Times, June 9, 2020:

The former chair of Harvard University’s chemistry department was indicted on June 9 on charges of making false statements about funding he received from the Chinese regime, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

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Charles Lieber, 61, was arrested in January for allegedly lying about his participation in the Chinese state-backed Thousand Talents recruitment program. A federal grand jury on June 9 indicted him on two counts of making false statements to federal authorities.

The recruitment plan, which aims to attract top experts around the world to work on projects in China, has drawn scrutiny from U.S. officials, who say it facilitates the transfer of American intellectual property to China.

Lieber, a professor specializing in nanoscience, allegedly had years of participation in the Thousand Talents program while working on sensitive U.S. research, prosecutors said. He has received more than $15 million of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Defense since 2008, according to the department.

Disclosure of foreign funding and collaboration is required when receiving such federal funding.

Lieber began working with the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) as a “strategic scientist” in 2011, and was involved in the Thousand Talents program from 2012 through 2017 as a contractual participant, according to court documents.

Under the contract, WUT paid him a salary of $50,000 per month with up to 1 million yuan (then $158,000) of living expenses over three years, the documents said. Lieber, in exchange, would work for WUT for at least nine months per year by applying for patents and publishing research for WUT, mentoring students and teachers, and conducting international cooperation projects.

In January 2013, Lieber signed an agreement for a five-year “cooperative research program” on behalf of Harvard—without consulting Harvard officials—allowing WUT researchers a two-month visit to his chemistry department each year, according to court documents. The objective of the agreement was to foster advanced research on nanowire-based lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

Harvard’s representatives told investigators that Leiber didn’t have the authority to enter into such contracts.

He also received $1.5 million for establishing a joint research lab at WUT using Harvard’s name and logo without Harvard’s knowledge—a violation of the school’s policy. When confronted by Harvard officials, he lied by saying WUT acted without his consent.

According to the complaint, Lieber denied any engagement with the Thousand Talents program when Defense Department investigators questioned him about his foreign research disclosure in April 2018. He said he was never asked to join the program, but “wasn’t sure” how China categorized him.

He then emailed his associate, saying he “lost a lot of sleep worrying about” the WUT webpage, where he was listed as the director of the lab, adding that he “will be careful about what I discuss with Harvard University” and that “none of this will be shared with government investigators.”

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Aaron S.
Aaron S.
3 years ago

We need to bring back the HUAC. The communists have infiltrated our country again at many levels and must be extirpated.

John Acord
John Acord
3 years ago
Reply to  Aaron S.

Can you imagine what HUAC would be with Pelosi as Speaker? She would most probably put Schiff as Chairman.

ed
ed
3 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

With Nadler as his co-chair…..

patd
patd
3 years ago

Just another libturd parasitic sellout criminal!!!! Hang the POS!

lostlegends
lostlegends
3 years ago

I’m shocked, shocked to see that Harvard profs are well paid traitors and spies for Communist China.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
3 years ago

Fry him … please!

Suresh
Suresh
3 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

when Clinton , Biden and other such politicians on both sides cAn take money from china and not be prosecuted then why not Harvard professor ?

And Americans buy commie chinese made products by the trillions , so why not ?

Unless there is sanctions on commie china , there is no legal grounds to prosecute such collaborators.

Steve Crane
Steve Crane
3 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Wrong. There are disclosure agreements he must fill out before receipt of US government research contracts. Omission of the financial arrangement he had with a foreign government entity is a serious crime.

There will be a lot more of these indictments rolling down the road. They need serious prosecution, and even that won’t stop all the greedy birds wanting to line their pockets, but jail time might make many of them think about what disclosures they must make for the government funding.

VTS
VTS
3 years ago
Reply to  Steve Crane

Better hurry up, send him to jail ASAP before democrooks steal elections.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
3 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

True, there is a certain justice in asking why one person should be held accountable when a case can be made that ‘everyone’ does it.

Is it not unjust to scold a pickpocket while a murderer gets away?

Everyone cheats on their taxes do they not? If I make an egregious mistake on my taxes, and my neighbor does exactly the same thing deliberately … should we not receive the same punishment although others get away with the crime?

Charles Lieber knew there were rules. He violated those rules. Politicians – their families and their operatives – break the same rules all the time, but I don’t think that’s a valid affirmative defense.

… you and yours have a wonderful week, Suresh!

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Agreed. The Espionage Act calls for thirty years incarceration or death.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
3 years ago

No longer is there any sense of honour or integrity. Plain greed is the driving force . Shitty China is capitalizing on this and in the process destroying any sense of loyalty. Xi Jinping is just a smiling dirtbag, the filthy piece of bubble gun that stuck under Australia’s shoe.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
3 years ago

Excellent idea, Drew!

… you and yours have a wonderful weekend!

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

DemocracyRules Demands Slave Reparations
Yes, Geller Report readers, I, DemocracyRules, a person of color [pink], hereby demand that I be compensated for all my years of suffering at the hands of my oppressors, and that I MUST be rewarded for all my sacrifices, in my family history in the Civil War to free the slaves. Since my family and others freed the slaves, and 340,000 Union soldiers died in that valiant cause, I demand to be paid by the descendants of those blacks whom we freed from slavery, paid by them for winning them their liberty. And my request is very reasonable: $14 trillion, cash on the barrel-head, to be paid immediately by all black Americans, paid to me personally.

Once I obtain this money from the grateful blacks of America, who treasure their freedom above all else, I will put it to a great cause, described below. Furthermore, to relieve the burden of these payments, I suggest that American blacks can obtain the entire amount of $14 trillion from the USA Democrat party, who fought on the Confederate side to preserve slavery. Democrats formed the entire Confederate army. Since that slavery was 100% caused by the Democrats, it is appropriate that all Democrats must contribute to the $14 trillion reparation fund, and transfer that entire amount to American blacks. And then it will please American blacks to give, and for me to receive, that $14 trillion, in gratitude.

This money shall be a true and just reward to US blacks for all the slavery, segregation, prejudice, hate, and violence perpetrated against black Americans by US Democrats before, during, and after the Civil War, and then continuing in Democrat northern cities, where poverty, poor health, and hopelessness are rife, because of incompetent Democrat governance. And once the $14 trillion is paid to me, the keeper of this great fund, I will allocate the funds to an interest bearing account, where it will entirely be devoted to supporting black emancipation from continuing Democrat oppression.

And feel free to copy and paste this to wherever else you may choose.

Commissioner Gordon
Commissioner Gordon
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Ooooo the Dums don’t like to talk about that!

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Yes, but the logic is clear and simple. WE freed the slaves, with OUR blood and guts. And by now, black Americans are by far the richest black people on earth, in spite of their despicable Democrat subjugation. Blacks OWE us their freedom, and it is to US to whom repartitions should be paid.
So let it be written, that Blacks owe us a debt of gratitude, and the rightful debtors are the Democrats, who still subjugate and victimize blacks, stripping wealth from those communities and channeling it into Democrat Party coffers. Thus, it is right and proper that the Democrat Party pay reparations to blacks, for all those centuries of victimization.
The Republican Party was founded on one plank – to end slavery. And as it was written, so now let it be done.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Of that Fourteen Trillion U.S. Yankee Greenback Dollars, why don’t you split it with me? I believe that to be an excellent proposal.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

There is not one particle of money in the coffers of Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and Gorge Soros, that does not accrue from the wealth acquired by subjugating blacks. Without the black vote, Democrats would never win an election, and once elected, Democrats strip wealth from the country and dump it into their own accounts.
George Soros is an insider trader, relying on Democrat connections for his wealth, Gates acquired 100 billion by selling software to government, and buying immunity from anti-trust efforts. Warren Buffet is another insider, dumping money into unsavory groups, and benefiting from Democrat largess at every turn. Bezos and the rest are the same,
suckling pigs on the Democrat teat.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

And, that teat holds a lot, yes a LOT, of milk.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Ach, Yes, that ‘s why $14 trillion is a good deal for them. I’m letting them off easy.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Then, shouldn’t that figure be doubled?

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

OK you handle the accounts… But the money will go from the Democrats to the blacks, with us acting as intermediaries to enforce the transaction. Conservative Republicans don’t need it. We have strong backs.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

As long as it goes from blacks to the descendants of those the fought and died, setting them free.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

DemocracyRules Demands Slave Reparations
Yes, that’s true Geller Report readers, I, DemocracyRules, a person of color [pink], hereby demand that I be compensated for all my years of suffering at the hands of my oppressors, and that I MUST be rewarded for all my sacrifices, in my family history in the Civil War to free the slaves. Since my family and others freed the slaves, and 340,000 Union soldiers died in that valiant cause, I demand to be paid by the descendants of those blacks who we freed from slavery, paid by them for winning them their liberty. And my request is very reasonable: $14 trillion, cash on the barrel-head, to be paid immediately by all black Americans, paid to me personally.

Once I obtain this money from the grateful blacks of America, who treasure their freedom above all else, I will put it to a great cause, described below. Furthermore, to relieve the burden of these payments, I suggest that American blacks can obtain the entire amount of $14 trillion from the USA Democrat party, who fought on the Confederate side to preserve slavery. Democrats formed the entire Confederate army. Since that slavery was 100% caused by the Democrats, it is appropriate that all Democrats must contribute to the $14 trillion reparation fund, and transfer that entire amount to American blacks. And then it will please American blacks to give, and for me to receive, that $14 trillion, in gratitude.

This money shall be a true and just reward to US blacks for all the slavery, segregation, prejudice, hate, and violence perpetrated against black Americans by US Democrats before, during, and after the Civil War, and then continuing in Democrat northern cities, where poverty, poor health, and hopelessness are rife, because of incompetent Democrat governance. And once the $14 trillion is paid to me, the keeper of this great fund, I will allocate the funds to an interest bearing account, where it will entirely be devoted to supporting black emancipation from continuing Democrat oppression.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

DemocracyRules Demands Slave Reparations
Yes, that’s true Geller Report readers, I, DemocracyRules, a person of color [pink], hereby demand that I be compensated for all my years of suffering at the hands of my oppressors, and that I MUST be rewarded for all my sacrifices, in my family history in the Civil War to free the slaves. Since my family and others freed the slaves, and 340,000 Union soldiers died in that valiant cause, I demand to be paid by the descendants of those blacks who we freed from slavery, paid by them for winning them their liberty. And my request is very reasonable: $14 trillion, cash on the barrel-head, to be paid immediately by all black Americans, paid to me personally.

Once I obtain this money from the grateful blacks of America, who treasure their freedom above all else, I will put it to a great cause, described below. Furthermore, to relieve the burden of these payments, I suggest that American blacks can obtain the entire amount of $14 trillion from the USA Democrat party, who fought on the Confederate side to preserve slavery. Democrats formed the entire Confederate army. Since that slavery was 100% caused by the Democrats, it is appropriate that all Democrats must contribute to the $14 trillion reparation fund, and transfer that entire amount to American blacks. And then it will please American blacks to give, and for me to receive, that $14 trillion, in gratitude.

This money shall be a true and just reward to US blacks for all the slavery, segregation, prejudice, hate, and violence perpetrated against black Americans by US Democrats before, during, and after the Civil War, and then continuing in Democrat northern cities, where poverty, poor health, and hopelessness are rife, because of incompetent Democrat governance. And once the $14 trillion is paid to me, the keeper of this great fund, I will allocate the funds to an interest bearing account, where it will entirely be devoted to supporting black emancipation from continuing Democrat oppression.

YesHemp Cbd
YesHemp Cbd
3 years ago

The bell rings louder for the goals of communism as the colleges are so over run with cancerous scum bucket maggots like this loser. Put him the same prison as the sodomites, but he just might enjoy it.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

A.G. Barr look how quickly indictments can happen, How’s it going with Hillary or your friend Mueller with the Russia hoax?

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Shhh, he be slow walking. 3-1/4 years so far!

Jon Fast
Jon Fast
3 years ago

Wait, isn’t the NIH run by Fauci? Thought so. And how deep is he in with China……

AlgorithmicAnalyst
AlgorithmicAnalyst
3 years ago

lol, not the sharpest criminal in the drawer 🙂

Andrew
Andrew
3 years ago

Biden will appoint this scumbag to his cabinet.

TD
TD
3 years ago
Reply to  Andrew

Biden/Ping 2020: Make China Great Again!

(not)

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Off topic – Issue of endless kneeling.

No reasonable person can deny that the death of George Floyd was outrageous.
I am confident that justice will be served here.!

Rabbis Agree: Kneel Before No one Except God
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz June 9, 2020 , 12:38 pm
….
The Biblical basis for this no-kneeling stance was explained in a Facebook post by Rabbi Michoel Green from the Chabad organization in Westborough, Massachusetts. The rabbi cited a verse in the Book of Esther.

All the king’s courtiers in the palace gate knelt and bowed low to Haman, for such was the king’s order concerning him; but Mordechai would not kneel or bow low. Esther 3:2

“I will not kneel before any movement, idea, or person, however virtuous or important,” Rabbi Green wrote on Facebook. “I won’t kneel as an act of deference or even as a statement of protest (like before an anthem of some nation whose policies I might criticize).”

“ I don’t care if my refusal to kneel enrages you, nor am I afraid of provoking your wrath,” Rabbi Green wrote, citing another verse.

When Haman saw that Mordechai would not kneel or bow low to him, Haman was filled with rage. Esther 3:5

“It makes no difference to me how powerful or menacing you are,” Rabbi Green wrote. “I kneel only before God.”

Rabbi Yosef Berger, the rabbi of King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, explained that this form of bowing, even though it is just on one knee, is explicitly forbidden by Jewish law.

“As seen in the Book of Esther, we are forbidden from bowing,” Rabbi Berger told Breaking Israel News. “If it is as a sign of respect between two people then it would be permitted. A Jew can agree or commiserate but we are only permitted to submit to the Torah, God’s expressed will.”

“But what we have here is a demand to submit to a belief or an entire set of beliefs,” Rabbi Berger said. “Some of the beliefs may be consistent with Torah, maybe even required by the Torah, but taking a knee in submission is a form of slavery in which you relinquish your free will to another person. And that is forbidden.”

In response to the situation, Rabbi Jeremy Gimpel, co-founder of the Land of Israel Network, quoted former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

“Jews Do Not Kneel but to God,” Rabbi Gimpel stated. “Even when we bow in prayer, it is only for a moment since man is created in the image of God. Forcing a man to bow desecrates the image of God.”

https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/151677/rabbis-agree-kneel-before-no-one-except-god/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Rabbis+Agree%3A+Kneel+Before+No+one+Except+God+and+Today+s+Top+Stories&utm_campaign=BIN+-+AM+-+JUNE+9%2C+2020

No Christian should be doing this either for the SAME REASONS!
Christians share the Old Testament with our Jewish friends.

Peter WF
Peter WF
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Blow your trumpet where it belongs.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Peter WF

Why does what I stated bother you? Does God’s teachings bother you or just God in general? Have authority issues? Are you your own god? Whatever the reason is, that is your choice. You can use your free will in whatever manner you choose and so will I.

Just as you can post what you please, within reason, I have the same secular right and will continue to exercise that right on this ongoing ridiculous kneeling issue.

I don’t need your permission or agreement. You can bend your knee to objects or people. I don’t. I only bend the knee to God. Only He is worthy of that.

It certainly is revealing who abides by His teachings and who doesn’t and those that selectively cherry pick what teachings they prefer. When to kneel is something Jews and Christians have in common because both share the Old Testamant.

Have the last word if it is important to you or just BLOCK ME!

ed
ed
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

More like Peter MF…..Muthaf……..r.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  ed

I believe we all know what little petey blows.

Aaron S.
Aaron S.
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Thank you for sharing that. Very interesting insight. I know that on Yom Kippur the Cohenim prostrate themselves before the Torah for atonement before God.

Now we have a police chief, so-called, prostrating himself before the mob!

The sight of police officers and national guard kneeling in their uniforms is nauseating. They should receive strict disciplinary action for doing that in uniform. A police officer should not show sympathy for one side or the other. Their job is to enforce the law, not make political statements! Not to mention that curr isof a police chief who prostrated India supplication before the mob. That was an anti-American act.

Frankly, I don’t trust the police anymore after seeing that. You don’t know whose side they’re on.
God help us.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Aaron S.

My guess is he is Orthodox with out the label. I believe most are good police. Derek Chauvin, and his buddies are dirt bag cops.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago

Hang him on Harvard Square.

Aaron S.
Aaron S.
3 years ago

We need to bring back the HUAC and indict all the communist traitors in academia and Hollywood. They should all go to the electric chair. These are grave crimes against the State.

They should really be drawn and quartered in the public square.

Does any care about the fate of our country anymore? Does anyone get enraged?!

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago

So, by proxy, this character has a finger in the pie concerning the coronavirus pandemic. After all, he and the chinks are as close as the pages in a book.

Wuhan, now where have I heard that name before?

ed
ed
3 years ago

Hmmmm……wasn’t there another prominent America-hating professor at Harvard recently ???? The one that thought she was an Indian ????

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago
Reply to  ed

You must be referring to Chief Crusty Crotch of the Never Wipe tribe.

ed
ed
3 years ago

That was the Tribe that migrated from Sweden, it’s members having blond hair and blue eyes.

John Acord
John Acord
3 years ago

The CCP theft of the US and other Western intellectual property is the greatest theft in human history and is estimated at 10 trillion dollars. This theft has allowed the CCP to amass unbelievable wealth. 80% of US A&) companies report some type of theft of its IP property. Little or nothing has been done to stop it and it continues to this day. The arrest of this professor is just a drop in the bucket. See https://fortune.com/2019/03/01/china-ip-theft/
This theft has cost the US as many as 10 million high paying jobs and robbed our GDP of at least 2-3 Trillion per year!

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

Notice how they go after the little fish and ignore the big fish.
Is this to appease us?

Janet Mohrman
Janet Mohrman
3 years ago

Earlier this year on this site, an initial article on a Charles Lieber stated that he took corona virus from the US to the Wuhan lab to start the pandemic.

Commissioner Gordon
Commissioner Gordon
3 years ago

This is a problem in most universities that needs to be fully disclosed. Also, Harvard is FULLY responsible for the actions of it’s employees and should be similarly charged.

tn_tea _ partyer_420
tn_tea _ partyer_420
3 years ago

It’s no wonder our country is in turmoil.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
3 years ago

He’s responsible for one million deaths through out the world. The least this bastard should get is life in prison.

Al Lauder
Al Lauder
3 years ago

Traitor, cut and dried.

fedup666
fedup666
3 years ago

One of the many far-left professors working for their CCP masters.

Nighthawk
Nighthawk
3 years ago

What a crazy egomaniac this guy is. Talk about chutzpah!

Ranger_Ric
Ranger_Ric
3 years ago

The sodomites are going to enjoy him in jail.

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