Harvard Nanotech Researcher Who Brought Home 'Bags of Cash' From China Convicted of Six Felonies
By Jennifer Van Laar | Dec 27, 2021 6:07 PM ET
As one of the world’s leading nanotechnology researchers, Harvard professor Charles M. Lieber was seen by many of his colleagues as a future Nobel Prize winner. Lieber desperately wanted that too, and he was willing to partner with the Chinese Communist Party to get it. That ended poorly for him last week when a federal jury in Boston convicted him of two counts of filing false tax returns, two counts of making false statements, and two counts of failing to file reports for a foreign bank account in China after Lieber hid hundreds of thousands of dollars he received in cash from the Chinese government and lied to two different federal investigators about his ties to the CCP’s Thousand Talents Program (TTP). Lieber, who held professorships in Harvard’s chemistry and engineering departments, also hid the existence of a Chinese bank account in his name, which contained approximately $200,000.
Lieber signed a contract with the Wuhan University of Technology back in 2012 in which he “was obligated to work for WUT ‘not less than nine months a year’ by ‘declaring international cooperation projects, cultivating young teachers and Ph.D. students, organizing international conference[s], applying for patents and publishing articles in the name of [WUT].’” The New York Times reported:
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