BOSTON, MA- In a story that should shock nobody, a college professor from a far-left university has been arrested by federal law enforcement officials for lying to officials about his ties to a Chinese school, and a program aimed at furthering that country’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security.

Charles Lieber, chairman of the university’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology department, was taken into custody at his office. Lieber was charged with one count of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement—and was set to appear Tuesday in federal court in Boston, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Massachusetts.

Beginning in 2011:

“Lieber became a so-called ‘Strategic Scientist’ at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was also a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017,” a statement from the office says.

“China’s Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese Talent recruitment 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,” it continues.

“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.”

Federal prosecutors said that Lieber’s research group at Harvard—which specializes in nanoscience—has received more than $15 million in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Defense.

In order to qualify for these grants, they require “the disclosure of significant foreign financial conflicts of interest, including financial support from foreign governments or foreign entities.”

However according to federal investigators, Lieber “lied” about his involvement with China and the Wuhan University of Technology. Under the terms of his Thousand Talents contract, they say, the school paid him $50,000 a month and awarded him more than $1.5 million to set up a research lab there.

Prosecutors also allege that the Wuhan institution also provided Lieber with round-trip, business class flights to and from China.

“In return, Lieber 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 district attorney’s office said in its statement.

Federal officials say that around 2018, “during an interview with investigators, Lieber stated that he was never asked to participate in the Thousand Talents Program” and that he “’wasn’t sure’ how China categorized him.”

The statement also says that later that year, Lieber “caused Harvard to falsely tell NIH that Lieber ‘had no formal association with WUT’ after 2012, that ‘WUT continued to falsely exaggerate’ his involvement with WUT in subsequent years, and that Lieber ‘is not and has never been a participant’ in China’s Thousand Talents Plan.”

In response to Lieber’s arrest, Harvard officials say he’s been placed on “indefinite” paid administrative leave and has been barred from the campus, according to the Harvard Crimson newspaper.

Harvard University spokesman Jonathan Swain said in a statement:

“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 conducting its own review of the alleged misconduct.”

Harvard, remember is the same university where last November, the student government voted to support an illegal immigration advocacy group’s petition to condemn the Harvard Crimson, the campus’ daily newspaper. Their crime?

Having the “unmitigated gall” to reach out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for comment in response to a protest last September.

The Undergraduate Council, the student’s government, said that by reaching out to ICE, the Crimson caused “fear and feelings of unsafety” among students on campus.

“We condemn actions or policies that endanger undocumented and immigrant students on campus, and we encourage the Harvard Crimson to revisit their policies and make adequate changes,” the student government’s statement read in part.

“It is imperative for the Harvard Crimson to commit to journalistic practices that do not put students at risk.”

And they wonder why they are referred to as snowflakes.

Basically, what these wussbags want is only one side of the story to be reported. Opposing views are not welcome. These Harvard students are your basic Bernie Sanders supporters.

To their credit, the Crimson defended its actions.

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In its “Note to Readers,” The Crimson pointed out id did not provide the names or immigration statuses of individuals at the protest in its request for comment to ICE. The editors stressed that the students who were interviewed and speeches made at the public protest were on the record.

“A world where news outlets categorically refuse to contact certain kinds of sources—a world where news outlets let third-party groups dictate the terms of their coverage—is a less informed, less accurate, and ultimately less democratic world,” The Crimson said.

Unfortunately, most students on campuses such as Harvard and other bastions of the left do not want a democratic world. That is why they support self-avowed socialists like Sanders and AOC. Free speech be damned.

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