https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/charles-lieber-harvard-china.amp.html Charles M. Lieber, a prominent scientist, filed a lawsuit against Harvard on Friday, asserting that the university abandoned him, in a breach of contract, after the Justice Department charged Dr. Lieber with concealing research funds he had received from a Chinese state-run initiative. Dr. Lieber, a tenured professor and leader in the field of nanoscale electronics, was arrested in January, part of an aggressive push by the Justice Department to root out scientists transferring research from American laboratories to China. And Dr. Lieber has been aggressive in fighting back. Unlike other scientists targeted by the initiative — many of them Chinese graduate students and researchers working in American laboratories — he has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He hired a criminal defense lawyer, Marc L. Mukasey, who last year successfully defended Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, a former Navy SEAL, against murder charges. The lawsuit claims that Harvard failed to fulfill its contractual obligations to Dr. Lieber because it has refused to indemnify him or contribute to his legal defense. “Harvard is cooperating with the United States attorney’s office in the prosecution of Professor Lieber,” the lawsuit says. “It is disturbing that Harvard acted solely in its own self-interest by turning its back on a dedicated faculty member who suffers from a terminal illness and who is presumed innocent. More importantly, it is illegal.” Dr. Lieber has follicular lymphoma, a form of blood cancer, according to his lawyer. The lawsuit argues that Harvard, for years, benefited from Dr. Lieber’s research, which attracted $10 million in research grants to the university, but then “left Professor Lieber in the lurch, seeking to distance itself from him through denial of his advancement and indemnification requests.” Jason Newton, a spokesman for Harvard, said the university could not comment on pending litigation. Derek Adams, a former federal prosecutor who has consulted with universities on similar cases, said universities typically distance themselves from researchers who come under federal investigation because the institutions rely heavily on government grants and because grant submissions are made in the university’s name. “I’m not saying that the universities throw the professors under the bus,” Mr. Adams said. “I just think that when you have criminal charges filed, in most cases it makes it impossible for them to continue to stand side by side.” He said he was not aware of a single case in which an accused researcher had remained employed through a criminal trial, or where a university had “taken ownership themselves of misconduct.” Dr. Lieber came under federal scrutiny in 2018, when investigators began questioning him about secondary sources of income. Prosecutors say he misled investigators and Harvard about participating in a Chinese recruitment program called Thousand Talents, in which generous grants are used to attract foreign-educated scientists to China. This summer, he was charged with failing to disclose his Chinese sources of funding, filing false tax returns and failing to file a report of a foreign bank account. The charges could result in a prison term of more than 10 years or fines of more than $500,000. According to court documents, Dr. Lieber signed an agreement to become a “strategic scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology in China, entitling him to a $50,000 monthly salary, $150,000 in annual living expenses and more than $1.5 million for a second laboratory in Wuhan. Prosecutors say he was informed in 2012 that he had been selected to participate in the Thousand Talents plan. But in 2018, when investigators from the Defense Department questioned him about second sources of income, he told them he had never been invited to participate in Thousand Talents, prosecutors said. Harvard was then required to submit a detailed report about Dr. Lieber to the National Institutes of Health, which had provided $10 million in grants for his research projects. He told university officials that he “is not and has never been” a participant in the Thousand Talents plan, prosecutors said. Mr. Adams, a partner at Potomac Law Group, said this element of the charge put Harvard at odds with its professor. “Harvard’s interests clearly do not align with Charles Lieber’s interests,” he said. “Their interest is in protecting Harvard University so that trust is built back up between the school, N.I.H. and the federal government. It would be a challenging situation for Harvard to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Charles Lieber.”
这文章这段话啥意思啊？华人学者都认罪不fight back么？ And Dr. Lieber has been aggressive in fighting back. Unlike other scientists targeted by the initiative — many of them Chinese graduate students and researchers working in American laboratories — he has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He hired a criminal defense lawyer, Marc L. Mukasey, who last year successfully defended Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, a former Navy SEAL, against murder charges.
Charles M. Lieber, a prominent scientist, filed a lawsuit against Harvard on Friday, asserting that the university abandoned him, in a breach of contract, after the Justice Department charged Dr. Lieber with concealing research funds he had received from a Chinese state-run initiative. Dr. Lieber, a tenured professor and leader in the field of nanoscale electronics, was arrested in January, part of an aggressive push by the Justice Department to root out scientists transferring research from American laboratories to China. And Dr. Lieber has been aggressive in fighting back. Unlike other scientists targeted by the initiative — many of them Chinese graduate students and researchers working in American laboratories — he has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He hired a criminal defense lawyer, Marc L. Mukasey, who last year successfully defended Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, a former Navy SEAL, against murder charges. The lawsuit claims that Harvard failed to fulfill its contractual obligations to Dr. Lieber because it has refused to indemnify him or contribute to his legal defense. “Harvard is cooperating with the United States attorney’s office in the prosecution of Professor Lieber,” the lawsuit says. “It is disturbing that Harvard acted solely in its own self-interest by turning its back on a dedicated faculty member who suffers from a terminal illness and who is presumed innocent. More importantly, it is illegal.” Dr. Lieber has follicular lymphoma, a form of blood cancer, according to his lawyer. The lawsuit argues that Harvard, for years, benefited from Dr. Lieber’s research, which attracted $10 million in research grants to the university, but then “left Professor Lieber in the lurch, seeking to distance itself from him through denial of his advancement and indemnification requests.” Jason Newton, a spokesman for Harvard, said the university could not comment on pending litigation. Derek Adams, a former federal prosecutor who has consulted with universities on similar cases, said universities typically distance themselves from researchers who come under federal investigation because the institutions rely heavily on government grants and because grant submissions are made in the university’s name. “I’m not saying that the universities throw the professors under the bus,” Mr. Adams said. “I just think that when you have criminal charges filed, in most cases it makes it impossible for them to continue to stand side by side.” He said he was not aware of a single case in which an accused researcher had remained employed through a criminal trial, or where a university had “taken ownership themselves of misconduct.” Dr. Lieber came under federal scrutiny in 2018, when investigators began questioning him about secondary sources of income. Prosecutors say he misled investigators and Harvard about participating in a Chinese recruitment program called Thousand Talents, in which generous grants are used to attract foreign-educated scientists to China. This summer, he was charged with failing to disclose his Chinese sources of funding, filing false tax returns and failing to file a report of a foreign bank account. The charges could result in a prison term of more than 10 years or fines of more than $500,000. According to court documents, Dr. Lieber signed an agreement to become a “strategic scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology in China, entitling him to a $50,000 monthly salary, $150,000 in annual living expenses and more than $1.5 million for a second laboratory in Wuhan. Prosecutors say he was informed in 2012 that he had been selected to participate in the Thousand Talents plan. But in 2018, when investigators from the Defense Department questioned him about second sources of income, he told them he had never been invited to participate in Thousand Talents, prosecutors said. Harvard was then required to submit a detailed report about Dr. Lieber to the National Institutes of Health, which had provided $10 million in grants for his research projects. He told university officials that he “is not and has never been” a participant in the Thousand Talents plan, prosecutors said. Mr. Adams, a partner at Potomac Law Group, said this element of the charge put Harvard at odds with its professor. “Harvard’s interests clearly do not align with Charles Lieber’s interests,” he said. “Their interest is in protecting Harvard University so that trust is built back up between the school, N.I.H. and the federal government. It would be a challenging situation for Harvard to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Charles Lieber.”
最近华人风向不要对呀。。本来以为这里会有鸡蛋，烂菜叶什么的。。
不过，想想，国家真会玩，今年应该有不少人要付昂贵的律师费，政府把钱这个口袋里掏出去给另一个口袋，又抽了一大笔中间费。
是哇，请君批斗。