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Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2020-01-28): Charles Lieber, the chair of Harvard University's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been arrested and criminally charged with making "false, fictitious and fraudulent statements" to the U.S. Defense Department about his ties to a Chinese government program to recruit foreign scientists and researchers. [...] In an affidavit unsealed Tuesday, FBI Special Agent Robert Plumb said Lieber, who led a Harvard research group focusing on nanoscience, had established a research lab at the Wuhan university — apparently unbeknownst to Harvard. In response to the charges against Lieber, Harvard said in a statement to NPR: "The charges brought by the U.S. government against Professor Lieber are extremely serious. Harvard is cooperating with federal authorities, including the National Institutes of Health, and is initiating its own review of the alleged misconduct. Professor Lieber has been placed on indefinite administrative leave."
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2020-01-28): Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, who is the chair of Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, is accused of lying about working with several Chinese organizations, where he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from Chinese entities, US Attorney Andrew Lelling said at a news conference. [...] CNN has reached out to an attorney for Lieber. In a statement, Harvard called the charges "extremely serious." "Harvard is cooperating with federal authorities, including the National Institutes of Health, and is conducting its own review of the alleged misconduct," the university said in a statement. "Professor Lieber has been placed on indefinite administrative leave."
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2020-08-11): Lieber was arrested on January 28 for "making false statements to the agency of the United States Government," or lying to federal authorities about his ties to China, as per the fact-check report. The channel added that prosecutors have never alleged that Lieber was involved in manufacturing and/or selling a virus to China. The full federal court complaint against Dr Lieber can be read <a href="https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/lieber-complaint-1586387800.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>.<p>The report also clarified Lieber’s links to Wuhan. The report stated, "Lieber travelled to WUT (Wuhan University of Technology) in mid-November 2011 ostensibly in order to participate in a Nano-Energy Materials Forum."</p>.<p>On July 29, Dr Lieber’s attorney Marc Mukasey told WCVB Channel 5 that he didn’t hide anything or get paid as the government alleges.</p>.<p>Thus, the social media claim that Harvard professor Dr Charles Lieber "made and sold" the Covid-19 virus to China is false.</p>
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2020-04-11): Inaccurate claims that a Harvard professor has just been arrested for creating the coronavirus emerged this week and went viral after being reported in multiple languages and shared hundreds of thousands of times. The posts say that Charles Lieber has just been arrested in the United States and that he manufactured coronavirus and sold it to China. [...] But not for manufacturing or selling the new coronavirus to China - none of the charges are related to Covid-19.
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2023-08-23): The claim stems from a satirical website. Hoofs has not been arrested, a Department of Defense spokesperson confirmed in an email to Check Your Fact.
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2023-09-07): A sensational claim making its way around the internet alleges that a top administrator at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was arrested by the military for ordering employees to secretly put the bodies of Hawaii wildfire victims into a mass grave. Though spread by scores of people online, the claim is utter nonsense. In one example, a video on TikTok claimed that the military arrested FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks earlier this month and charged him with treason alongside FEMA Director Deanne Criswell.
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2023-08-22): United States Marines on Saturday arrested Deputy Administrator of FEMA Erik Hooks on charges of treason, alleging in a 34-page indictment that Hooks and his boss, Deanne Criswell, ordered agents in Maui to deny fire victims food and water, to inhibit civilian relief efforts, to stop "by any means necessary" displaced persons from exiting fire-ravaged Lahaina, and to dispose of bodies as "discriminately as possible," a source in General Eric M. Smith’s office told Real Raw News. The arrest occurred Saturday night at Hooks’ home in Arlington, Virginia, not far from FEMA’s D.C. headquarters. The Marines cuffed Hooks while he was sleeping, showed him a military arrest warrant listing the charges against him, and carted him off to a holding center for processing.
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2023-08-29): A video shared on Facebook claims the military has arrested Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks on charges of treason after denying victims of the wildfires in Maui food and water. [...] The headline reads "Military Arrests FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks." [...] The claim originates from an article by Real Raw News. The site’s "About Us" includes a disclaimer that reads, "Information on this website is for informational and educational and entertainment purposes. This website contains humor, parody, and satire." Check Your Fact has debunked Real Raw News several previous times. (RELATED: No, The Military Did Not Arrest The FEMA Deputy Administrator For Treason In Maui)
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2023-08-23): The person in the TikTok video points to an article, headlined "Military Arrests FEMA Deputy Administrator Eric Hooks," as evidence. But the article is from Real Raw News, a website that regularly publishes fabricated stories and includes a disclaimer that it "contains humor, parody and satire." PolitiFact previously debunked the headline of the same story, about the arrest. [...] Real Raw News, "Military Arrests FEMA Deputy Administrator Eric Hooks," Aug. 22, 2023 [...] PolitiFact, "The military didn’t arrest FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks, despite online claims," Aug. 24, 2023
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2023-08-23): The claim appeared in an article published by Real Raw News on August 22, 2023, titled "Military Arrests FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks," (archived here). It opened: United States Marines on Saturday arrested Deputy Administrator of FEMA Erik Hooks on charges of treason, alleging in a 34-page indictment that Hooks and his boss, Deanne Criswell, ordered agents in Maui to deny fire victims food and water, to inhibit civilian relief efforts, to stop 'by any means necessary' displaced persons from exiting fire-ravaged Lahaina, and to dispose of bodies as 'discriminately as possible,' a source in General Eric M. Smith's office told Real Raw News. [...] A Google News search using the keywords "Military Arrests FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks" produced no results substantiating this claim.
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2023-08-25): CLAIM: The U.S. Marine Corps "neutralized" a "fleeing FEMA convoy in Maui."
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2024-01-29): Erik Adrian Hooks (born 1967) is an American public safety official who is currently serving as the deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.[2] He previously served as secretary of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety from January 2017 to August 2021. [...] Nomination to FEMA [edit]On July 27, 2021, Hooks was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the deputy administrator of FEMA.[6] Hearings were held on Hooks' nomination by the Senate's Homeland Security Committee on November 18, 2021. On December 1, 2021, the committee favorably reported his nomination to the entire Senate floor. Hooks was officially confirmed by the whole Senate via voice vote on December 7, 2021. [7]
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2023-08-25): False claim FEMA Deputy Administrator arrested in relation to Maui wildfires | Fact check The claim: Military arrested FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks in relation to Maui wildfires [...] "Military arrests FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks," reads the headline in the video.
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2019-09-10): A former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency was arrested Tuesday for taking bribes from the president of a company that landed $1.8 billion in federal contracts to repair Puerto Rico's electrical grid after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September 2017. Federal authorities arrested Ahsha Tribble, FEMA's former deputy administrator for the region that includes Puerto Rico. Donald Keith Ellison, the former president of Cobra Acquisitions was also arrested.
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2019-09-10): A former top Federal Emergency Management Agency official, her aide, and the former president of an energy company were indicted and arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to direct billions of dollars in disaster aid to the company for electricity restoration in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017. Ahsha Tribble, who until recently was FEMA’s Region II deputy regional administrator and led the agency's efforts to restore power to the devastated island, is accused of accepting a variety of bribes from Donald Ellison, former president of Cobra Acquisitions, LLC, a subsidiary of Mammoth Energy Services, in exchange for pressuring officials at FEMA and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to improperly assign projects to Cobra. [...] "Tribble . . . performed official acts . . . including but not limited to, influencing, providing advice to, and exerting pressure on PREPA executives . . . so that PREPA would accelerate payments to Cobra, assign tasks to Cobra instead of using PREPA employees, and use Cobra in restoration tasks to the exclusion of other contractors," the indictment stated. "[It] was further part of the conspiracy that . . . Tribble regularly provided [Ellison] with information she obtained through her position as FEMA deputy regional administrator, sector lead, and recovery manager, providing Cobra with information not readily accessible to it through other needs."
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2019-09-10): Two FEMA officials assigned to help manage restoration efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria have been charged with fraud and bribery for trying to enrich themselves by helping a company that received $1.8 billion in government contracts, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. [...] Those charged were Ahsha Nateef Tribble, a FEMA deputy regional administrator whom authorities described as the leader in power restoration in Puerto Rico; Jovanda R. Patterson, a FEMA deputy chief of staff who left her position in July 2018 to work for Cobra Energy; and Donald Keith Ellison, who was president of Cobra Acquisitions until June. [...] Tribble has been suspended from FEMA but not terminated, according to a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Puerto Rico. In a statement, a FEMA spokesman said Tribble was "in a non-duty, non-pay status."
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2023-08-25): CLAIM: Erik Hooks, the deputy director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has been arrested in connection with the agency’s response to the Maui wildfires. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. A FEMA spokesperson told The Associated Press that Hooks has not been arrested. The claim originated on a website that says it publishes "humor, parody, and satire" and has previously published similar false stories about supposed arrests of public officials. THE FACTS: Social media users are claiming a top FEMA official has been arrested and charged with treason following the agency’s response to the devastating wildfires.
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2023-11-22): The Deputy Administrator assists the Administrator in providing executive leadership of FEMA and ensures all programs and activities are effectively coordinated in preparing for, protecting against, responding to, recovering from and mitigating against the risk of a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disasters. [...] Deputy Administrator Hooks also serves as the Key Intelligence Official for FEMA, responsible for Homeland Security Information and National Intelligence. [...] Prior to his service as the Deputy Administrator of FEMA, Hooks was appointed by the Governor of North Carolina as the Secretary of Public Safety and the State’s Homeland Security Advisor in January 2017. Secretary Hooks was the sole representative on the governor's cabinet for the state's law enforcement, emergency management, homeland security, and corrections responsibilities. Secretary Hooks retired from state service on August 1, 2021.
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2023-08-23): "Military arrests FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks," reads the headline of an Aug. 22 Real Raw News story shared by a recent Facebook post. [...] The story says Hooks, who has served as FEMA’s deputy administrator since 2021, was arrested on treason charges because he "ordered agents in Maui to deny fire victims food and water, to inhibit civilian relief efforts, to stop ‘by any means necessary displaced persons from exiting fire-ravaged Lahaina, and to dispose of bodies as ‘discriminately as possible.’" [...] Real Raw News, Military Arrests FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks, Aug. 22, 2023
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2023-08-23): On Aug. 22, 2023, Real Raw News published an article claiming that U.S. Marine Corps arrested Erik Hooks, the deputy administrator of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in connection with the agency's response to wildfires that ravaged parts of Maui the previous week. Military Arrests FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks United States Marines on Saturday arrested Deputy Administrator of FEMA Erik Hooks on charges of treason, alleging in a 34-page indictment that Hooks and his boss, Deanne Criswell, ordered agents in Maui to deny fire victims food and water, to inhibit civilian relief efforts, to stop "by any means necessary" displaced persons from exiting fire-ravaged Lahaina, and to dispose of bodies as "discriminately as possible," a source in General Eric M. Smith's office told Real Raw News.
Claim: The military arrested the FEMA deputy administrator (Viral Video, 2023-08-23)
Evidence (2019-09-10): A top FEMA official sent to Puerto Rico to oversee power restoration arrested in corruption probe Former top FEMA officials who worked in Puerto Rico during the island's recovery from Hurricane Maria were arrested on Tuesday in a federal corruption investigation. The investigation centers around alleged bribes that secured a $1.8 billion contract to repair Puerto Rico's damaged electrical grid. Federal authorities arrested Ahsha Tribble, FEMA's former deputy regional administrator, who worked in Puerto Rico after the storm, and Donald Keith Ellison, former president of energy company Cobra Acquisitions. Jovanda Patterson, who worked as Tribble's chief of staff, was also arrested.
Claim: NFL refused Kaepernick’s request play and told him to sell hair products instead (Viral post, 2023-09-09)
Evidence (2023-09-09): The claim is inaccurate. The claim stems from a satirical website.
Claim: NFL refused Kaepernick’s request play and told him to sell hair products instead (Viral post, 2023-09-09)
Evidence (2023-09-27): NFL Refuses Kaepernick's Request for Active Status: "He Should Sell Hair Products" [...] "Active status means he can try out, apply for coaching positions, pursue endorsements, and other league-related things," said Deputy Commissioner Joe Barron, "We denied his petition for the 7th year in a row. He should go sell hair products." When we searched Facebook for the article's headline, we found that a number of users apparently believed that the NFL had told Kaepernick that he should sell hair products instead of trying to play for the league.
Claim: NFL refused Kaepernick’s request play and told him to sell hair products instead (Viral post, 2023-09-09)
Evidence (2017-08-17): That is why Kaepernick needs to get a job in the NFL. Not as a backup in the middle of the season when the quarterbacks start going down. Now. If the NFL thought giving him a job would prove a distraction or somehow damage its brand, it was wrong. Now it’s facing down the opposite problem. First, it was just Kaepernick’s voice needing to be silenced. Now it’s Beast Mode, Michael Bennett, Malcolm Jenkins, Richard Sherman, and the list will only grow. All of them using their megaphone to talk about the "blackballing" of the former 49ers quarterback. [...] Owners want their pockets fattened. By folks watching and patronizing the NFL shield. Once upon a time, they thought they’d be able to LIMIT any damage by simply allowing Kaepernick to drift into unemployment, believing he couldn’t possibly affect their bottom line because he’d offended too many fans who just wanted him TO shut UP and play. And while some may agree, others may disagree, I have no doubt that it was far easier for owners to give Kaepernick the proverbial finger and tell him to take his activism elsewhere last Friday than it is for them to tell him so now. No owner wants to be seen as being dismissive and detached from what’s going on in this country today. No owner wants to come across as indifferent to the current plight of minorities of all races, colors and creeds.
Claim: NFL refused Kaepernick’s request play and told him to sell hair products instead (Viral post, 2023-09-09)
Evidence (2018-09-09): It still has not settled. Kaepernick hasn't played a game since 2017 and has a pending grievance against the league. He's also featured in a new Nike ad that celebrates him and others. That's also sparked controversy.
Claim: NFL refused Kaepernick’s request play and told him to sell hair products instead (Viral post, 2023-09-09)
Evidence (2023-09-09): Colin Kaepernick was denied a return to "active status" by the NFL’s ethics committee this week, ending any hopes the former quarterback has of participating in professional football for at least another season. "Active status means he can try out, apply for coaching positions, pursue endorsements, and other league-related things," said Deputy Commissioner Joe Barron, "We denied his petition for the 7th year in a row. He should go sell hair products." [...] "It’s really sad. In this silly satirical multiverse, he can’t even do any Nike commercials without the approval of some committee that doesn’t actually exist." Newhole believes the league’s advice — to go sell hair products — is sound and not at all racist. "I don’t believe in dog whistles," she commented," players can’t hear them, so neither can I."
Claim: NFL refused Kaepernick’s request play and told him to sell hair products instead (Viral post, 2023-09-09)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, 36, hasn't played an NFL game since 2016, but that doesn't mean he wants to be done with the game. While on "CBS Mornings," Kaepernick explained his desire to play football and what pushes him to continue to try for a chance to join a team. [...] Kaepernick has been vocal about his desire to join an NFL team, sending messages to squads, posting videos of him training and making it known that he believes he's still in football shape.
Claim: NFL refused Kaepernick’s request play and told him to sell hair products instead (Viral post, 2023-09-09)
Evidence (2019-01-31): They told Kap to stand up if you wanna play for a team/ And all his teammates ain’t saying a thing (Stay woke)/ If you don’t stand for nothing, you gon’ fall for something/ And in the ’60s if you kneeled, you’d probably be killed/ But they don’t kill you now, they just take you out of your deal. [...] The NFL has said little as these debates have swirled around Kaepernick, and it has denied the central allegation in his pending grievance: that it conspired to ruin his career because of his politics. Similarly, many NFL coaches and players are tight-lipped about Kaepernick’s plight, although some acknowledge in private that he’s still good enough to play. Ask them why he’s not in the NFL, however, and they go silent. [...] But if Kaepernick does want to play again, it certainly will be on his own terms. Earlier this month, he retweeted a biting critique of a post from the FBI, which sent out a tweet honoring Martin Luther King Jr., whom the agency had harassed for years before he was murdered. "The FBI was found guilty in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This is a perfect example of how the oppressor attempts to rewrite history," read the post from @BlakeDontCrack, which Kaepernick circulated.
Claim: NFL refused Kaepernick’s request play and told him to sell hair products instead (Viral post, 2023-09-09)
Evidence (2019-02-15): It’s also unclear whether Kaepernick will ever get another chance to play in the NFL. If this settlement proves anything, though, it’s that there was no good reason for him to be kept off NFL rosters in the first place—and there’s still no good reason for him to be kept from playing in the NFL going forward.
Claim: NFL refused Kaepernick’s request play and told him to sell hair products instead (Viral post, 2023-09-09)
Evidence (2017-03-27): It’s imperative to cut through the noise surrounding Colin Kaepernick’s current unemployment, and nothing is noisier than the idea that NFL teams will not sign Kaepernick because he is a "distraction." It’s football’s laziest cliché, a catchall for anything or anyone a team might not like. [...] As of this writing, we’re all guessing about why Kaepernick doesn’t have a job. We could dress that up with words such as "hypothesize" and "conjecture," but all anyone can do is try to figure out why someone obviously good enough to play in the NFL, at its scarcest position, hasn’t received a substantive phone call from a general manager. There’s enough circumstantial evidence to arrive at any conclusion, whether or not one set his or her GPS to that destination. [...] Kaepernick is good enough to play quarterback in the NFL. Few are run out of the league after posting a 4-to-1 touchdown-interception ratio with someone like Jeremy Kerley as his top receiving threat. Yet none of us are sure he ever will take the field again. That wouldn’t be "the breaks." That would be a league that uses the power of nonguaranteed contracts to not only maintain the status quo, but enforce it. That would be a league whose players deal with the specter of the police every day, but stands in solidarity with those who want to make their players’ lives more difficult than they should be.