🚨BREAKING: Jury finds Harvard chemist Charles Lieber GUILTY of making false statements about participating in a #China-govt program to attract foreign scientists, failing to declare income earned in China & failing to report a Chinese bank account.🧐
nytimes.com/2021/12/21/sci…
nytimes.com/2021/12/21/sci…
#China had money to spend—“that’s 1 of the things China uses to try to seduce people.”~Lieber
But money wasn’t the reason. By training young scientists in his technology, he hoped to burnish his credentials.
“This is embarrassing. Every scientist wants to win a #NobelPrize.”
But money wasn’t the reason. By training young scientists in his technology, he hoped to burnish his credentials.
“This is embarrassing. Every scientist wants to win a #NobelPrize.”
A key issue was a joint venture that Lieber launched in 2011 w/#Wuhan University of Technology.
A 3-year contract with #China gave him $50,000/month, ~$150,000 in living expenses and >$1.5 million for a laboratory, called the WUT-Harvard Joint Nano Key Laboratory.🤨
A 3-year contract with #China gave him $50,000/month, ~$150,000 in living expenses and >$1.5 million for a laboratory, called the WUT-Harvard Joint Nano Key Laboratory.🤨
‼️Some salary was deposited in a Chinese bank. The rest—$50-100k—was **paid in $100 bills he carried home in his luggage**.
“They would give me a package, a brown thing with some Chinese characters on it. I would throw it in my bag.
I didn’t declare it, and that’s illegal.”💥
“They would give me a package, a brown thing with some Chinese characters on it. I would throw it in my bag.
I didn’t declare it, and that’s illegal.”💥
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