A top Harvard scientist was charged Tuesday, 3-31-2020 with lying to the Pentagon and the National Institutes of Health about his involvement in a program run by the Chinese government and a Chinese university.
A federal criminal complaint says Charles Lieber gave false statements about his participation in the Thousand Talents Program, which U.S. officials say is a conduit for economic espionage. The filing also says that Lieber, chair of Harvard’s department of chemistry and chemical biology, raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in salary and living expenses from the Wuhan University of Technology, along with $1.5 million to build a laboratory in China.