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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 (2022-08-30): But the WCVB news report is from 28 January 2020. That’s more than two months before the 6 April Facebook post, so he wasn’t arrested "today". And the report makes no mention of the coronavirus, let alone that Lieber’s arrest was because he had "manufactured and sold the coronavirus to China". [...] The first US case of coronavirus was reported on 20 January 2020. Lieber was arrested on 28 January. Neither the official statement about his arrest nor the court documents link his arrest to the new coronavirus. [...] A Harvard professor was arrested and charged in the US. But the arrest had nothing to do with Covid-19. And all evidence so far also shows that the new coronavirus was not "manufactured". – Grace Gichuhi "Dr Charles Lieber, head of the chemistry and biology department at Harvard University, USA. He was just arrested today according to American department sources."
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2021-12-21): Dr. Charles Lieber, 62, the former chair of Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was found guilty of two counts of making false statements to federal authorities, two counts of making and subscribing a false income tax return, and two counts of failing to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts with the Internal Revenue Service. Lieber’s research group at Harvard had received over $15 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense, which requires disclosing foreign financial conflicts of interests. The jury found that Lieber had lied about his affiliation with the Wuhan University of Technology in China and a contract he had with a Chinese talent recruitment plan to attract high-level scientists to the country. [...] Acting US attorney Nathaniel Mendell said in a statement Tuesday that "there is now no question that Charles Lieber lied to federal investigators and to Harvard in an attempt to hide his participation in the Chinese Thousand Talents Program."
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2022-01-18): What Charles Lieber’s conviction means for science [...] Next week will mark two years since Harvard University chemist and nanotechnology pioneer Charles Lieber was arrested on allegations of lying to US federal authorities about his financial ties to China. Last month, a jury convicted him of making false statements, as well as related tax offences. Researchers say that the high-profile US criminal case is already having an impact on the scientific community. It marks the second time an academic researcher has been tried on accusations of hiding ties to China since the US Department of Justice (DOJ) launched its controversial ‘China Initiative’ to root out threats to national security. [...] Harvard chemist on trial: a guide to the Charles Lieber case
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2021-12-14): Harvard chemist on trial: a guide to the Charles Lieber case [...] A highly-anticipated trial began today for star nanotechnology researcher Charles Lieber, who stands accused by the US government of actions including lying about his involvement in a Chinese government talent-recruitment programme, and failing to disclose income from China on his tax returns. This is the second trial for an academic accused of hiding ties to China since the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched a controversial initiative in 2018 to prevent that country from using US resources for political gain — and legal experts say its verdict might influence the prosecution of future cases. [...] Harvard chemistry chief’s arrest over China links shocks researchers
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2021-12-22): Charles Lieber: Harvard professor guilty of hiding ties to Chinese programme [...] Charles Lieber was found guilty of making false statements to authorities, filing false tax returns and failing to report a Chinese bank account. His sentencing date is yet to be decided. [...] Prosecutors in Boston said Lieber knowingly hid his involvement in China's "Thousand Talents Plan", which aims to attract foreign research specialists. It has been flagged by the US as a security concern in the past.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2021-12-22): A criminal trial of Charles M. Lieber, a chemistry professor at Harvard University, is scheduled to begin Dec. 14 at a federal court in Boston. Lieber faces two felony charges for making false statements to government investigators and four felony charges for tax-related offenses, including not disclosing a foreign bank account and failing to report income from Wuhan University of Technology (WUT). Lieber pleaded not guilty to all charges. Check here for daily updates and key information from C&EN reporters in the courtroom. [...] Next, the prosecution called US Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent Kara Spice to testify. Spice was involved in Lieber’s arrest and subsequent questioning on Jan. 28, 2020. Assistant US Attorney Jason Casey asked Spice about email exchanges between Liqiang Mai, who worked in Lieber’s lab from 2008 to 2011. According to Mai’s website, he has been a professor at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) since 2004 and is now dean of WUT’s School of Materials Science and Engineering. [...] Federal authorities arrested Lieber and charged him with fraud on Jan. 28, 2020. Lieber’s lab at Harvard has received grants from the US National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Defense for more than $15 million since 2008, according to an indictment filed on July 28, 2020.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2023-04-26): Ex-Harvard professor Charles Lieber gets house arrest over China ties - Published Former Harvard professor Charles Lieber was sentenced to six months of house arrest on Wednesday, according to US media. [...] Though his involvement is not a crime, prosecutors said Lieber "purposely and repeatedly" lied to authorities about his affiliation with the university in Wuhan and failed to declare income earned in China.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2021-12-22): Q. Is it true that federal agents arrested Harvard professor Charles Lieber for creating the coronavirus? [...] Is the story about federal agents arresting Dr. Charles Lieberman true? It also alleges the Coronavirus started at the location of a biological warfare development lab in China. Is that true? [...] The social media post goes on to imply that Lieber is somehow connected to the new coronavirus because the Chinese university he was involved with was located in Wuhan, where the COVID-19 outbreak began. But there is no evidence that is anything more than a coincidence. When we asked about any connection between Lieber and the new coronavirus, a DOJ spokesperson told us in an email, "The Department of Justice has made no such allegation."
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2023-04-27): Former Harvard professor Charles Lieber sentenced to house arrest for lying about ties to China Former Harvard University professor Charles Lieber has been sentenced to six months' house arrest for lying about his ties to a China-run recruitment program in one of the highest-profile cases resulting from a crackdown on Chinese influence on US research. [...] Lieber was sentenced to two days in prison — time that he had already served following his arrest — and half a year of house arrest with a fine of $US50,000 ($75,411), prosecutors said.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2022-07-22): The Department of Justice announced today that the Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department and two Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China. Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested this morning and charged by criminal complaint with one count of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement. Lieber will appear this afternoon before Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler in federal court in Boston, Massachusetts. [...] According to court documents, since 2008, Dr. Lieber who has served as the Principal Investigator of the Lieber Research Group at Harvard University, which specialized in the area of nanoscience, has received more than $15,000,000 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Defense (DOD). These grants require the disclosure of significant foreign financial conflicts of interest, including financial support from foreign governments or foreign entities. Unbeknownst to Harvard University beginning in 2011, Lieber became a "Strategic Scientist" at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017. China’s Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese Talent recruit plans that are designed to attract, recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security. These talent programs seek to lure Chinese overseas talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and experience to China and reward individuals for stealing proprietary information.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2020-04-15): As the novel coronavirus spreads, conspiracy theories about its origin have spread with it — including those falsely alleging that the virus was made and sold by Harvard Chemistry professor Charles M. Lieber. Posts falsely claiming that Lieber was arrested for creating and selling the novel coronavirus have been shared more than 79,000 times on Facebook as of April 7, according to Reuters. Thousands of posts on Twitter and several YouTube videos have made similarly baseless claims connecting Lieber with the creation of the virus. In fact, Lieber was arrested in January for allegedly concealing Chinese funding and lying to federal agents. While he reportedly participated in Chinese government research programs in Wuhan — the same city where the novel coronavirus originated — there is no evidence to suggest that Lieber, a nanoscientist, engineered a biological agent, nor did the federal government press charges against him related to the coronavirus.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2023-04-26): Former Harvard Professor Charles Lieber sentenced to time served, fine for lying about China ties [...] Former Harvard Professor Charles Lieber -- who was found guilty of concealing his affiliation with a Chinese recruitment program -- was sentenced to time served in prison (two days) and two years of supervised release with six months of home arrest, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. [...] In December 2021, Lieber was found guilty of concealing his affiliation with the Wuhan University of Technology and his participation in China’s Thousand Talents Program, a program designed by the Chinese government to recruit high-level scientists, and failing to report payments on his taxes, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2020-06-09): WASHINGTON — The Justice Department announced the indictment of a Harvard professor after he allegedly made false statements to federal authorities regarding his work at Wuhan University of Technology in China. Dr. Charles Lieber, 61, the former Chair of Harvard University's Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was arrested in January and is slated to be arraigned in federal court in Boston at a later date. The charge of making false statements provides for a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. "It is alleged that, unbeknownst to Harvard University, beginning in 2011, Lieber became a 'Strategic Scientist' at Wuhan University of Technology in China," the Justice Department said in a Tuesday statement.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2020-01-29): The chair of Harvard University’s chemistry department has been arrested for concealing his affiliation with the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China – worth millions of dollars – from his university and the US government agencies that funded his work. On 28 January, the US Department of Justice charged Charles Lieber, a pioneer in nanoscience and nanoelectronics, with one count of making ‘a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement’. [...] ‘The charges brought by the US government against Professor Lieber are extremely serious. Harvard is cooperating with federal authorities, including the National Institutes of Health, and is conducting its own review of the alleged misconduct,’ Harvard said in a statement. On multiple occasions Lieber ‘misled Harvard regarding his associations with WUT and Thousand Talents plan’, the university added. [...] On the same day as Lieber’s arrest, Chinese national Yanqing Ye was charged with one count of visa fraud, making false statements, acting as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy. Ye, who is actually a lieutenant in the Chinese army and is currently in China, falsely identified herself as a student on her visa application and lied about her ongoing military service, according to the US Justice Department.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2020-06-27): In January, acclaimed Harvard scientist Charles Lieber was arrested for lying about ties to China. Lieber, the chair of Harvard 's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, was charged with one count of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement. Two Chinese nationals were also charged in the case.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2023-04-27): More than three years after his arrest, Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard University’s chemistry department, has avoided prison for failing to disclose funding from China. For hiding his affiliation with a Chinese university, as well as income tax and foreign bank account reporting violations, Lieber was sentenced yesterday to time served, two years of supervised release with six months under house arrest, plus a $50,000 (£40,000) fine, and $33,600 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Lieber had faced a maximum of 26 years in prison and $1.2 million in fines. The nanoscience pioneer was arrested in January 2020 after authorities discovered that he failed to disclose significant Chinese funding to Harvard or US funding agencies, which raised conflict of interest concerns. [...] Lieber has been largely confined to his home and hospitals in recent years, typically leaving only for medical appointments, brief walks around the neighbourhood and occasional visits to a local farm, according to his lawyers. He was on paid administrative leave from Harvard since his arrested more than three years ago, until his retirement in February.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2023-07-12): New investigations seek to more strongly enforce existing regulations and target actors not previously of interest to the Department of Justice, particularly in the higher education sector. For instance, existing policies requiring researchers to declare all potential conflicts of interest or foreign government affiliations are being more stringently enforced.43 The recent high profile arrest of the head of Harvard’s Department of Chemistry, Charles Lieber, for failing to disclose his links to Chinese research institutions while also working on US government-funded projects, is an example of the department’s more aggressive stance on academic disclosure. Another recent fraud case in West Virginia involves a professor claiming time off to care for a newborn, when in fact he used the time to take part in China’s Thousand Talents program.44 The department has also brought cases against Chinese-born faculty members at the University of Kansas, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Emory University, in each case for failing to disclose foreign ties.45 Cases involving universities, national laboratories and even hospitals, reflects the department’s focus on prosecuting IP theft in every sector of the NSIB.46 [...] Department of Justice’s China Imitative: The Arrest of Harvard Professor Dr Charles Lieber On 28 January 2020, the Department of Justice charged Dr Charles Lieber, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, on two counts of making false statements in relation to his involvement in the People’s Republic of China’s Thousand Talents Program.53
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2024-10-09): A conspiracy-centric Facebook chat show claims US chemist Charles Lieber listed a patent for a device in 2015 that could vibrate coronavirus particles with 5G radiation. [...] The Harvard professor was arrested and charged in 2020, following a US Department of Justice investigation into his links with Chinese researchers. A jury found him guilty of six charges in December 2021. [...] AAP FactCheck previously debunked claims Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling coronavirus to China.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2021-11-19): The former Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department was indicted on charges of making false statements to federal authorities regarding his participation in China’s Thousand Talents Program. Dr. Charles Lieber, 61, was arrested on Jan. 28, 2020 and charged by criminal complaint. A superseding indictment, returned in July 2020, further charged Lieber with tax offenses for allegedly failing to report income he received from Wuhan University of Technology (WUT). [[Editor: Lieber was convicted. This Chronicle of Higher Education article examines the importance of the case.]] [...] Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate China Related Cases The Department announced charges against three individuals in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China. For more information on these individuals, see entries on Dr. Charles Lieber, Yanqing Ye and Zaosong Zheng.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2020-03-18): Struggling to attract top researchers, Thousand Talents also reached out to non-Chinese scientists, like Charles Lieber, the Harvard chemistry chairman charged in January with making false statements to the U.S. government by denying his involvement with Thousand Talents and with Wuhan University of Technology. His three-year Thousand Talents contract called for Wuhan to pay Lieber $50,000 a month plus more than $1.5 million for a research lab, according to the Department of Justice. Lieber has not yet entered a plea. His attorney, Peter Levitt, declined comment.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2023-04-26): BOSTON – The former Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for lying to federal authorities about his affiliation with People’s Republic of China’s Thousand Talents Program and the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in Wuhan, China, as well as failing to report income he received from WUT. Dr. Charles Lieber, 64, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel to time served (two days) in prison; two years of supervised release with six months of home confinement; a fine of $50,000; and $33,600 in restitution to the IRS. The government recommended a sentence of 90 days in prison and a $150,000 fine. [...] Lieber served as the Principal Investigator of the Lieber Research Group at Harvard University, which between 2008 and 2019 conducted more than $15 million in research sponsored by various U.S. Government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense ("DOD") and the National Institutes of Health ("NIH"). Unbeknownst to his employer, Harvard University, Lieber became a "Strategic Scientist" at WUT and, later, a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from at least 2012 through 2015. China’s Thousand Talents Plan was one of the most prominent Chinese talent recruitment plans designed to attract, recruit and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security.
Claim: Harvard professor Charles Lieber was arrested for manufacturing and selling the new coronavirus to China (Viral Claim, 2020-04-05)
Evidence (2021-12-22): Lieber's arrest had nothing to do with the novel coronavirus, nor was that virus "developed" or "manufactured" by anyone (in China or elsewhere). [...] Lieber's arrest was big news in academic circles; but after internet users noticed that the alleged funding was coming from a university in Wuhan, China, the center of an outbreak of a new coronavirus, wild speculation went viral and unfounded connections were drawn between Lieber and a conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was a lab-made bioweapon. [...] The claims made in this Facebook post are generally true. Lieber was truly arrested in January 2020 for lying to federal agents about funding he had allegedly received from China. However, Lieber's arrest was not connected to the coronavirus and there's no evidence to support claims that this disease was a human-made bioweapon.