>>512012479>A former Harvard University professor was sentenced on Wednesday to six months' house arrest for lying about his ties to a China-run recruitment program, prosecutors said, in one of the highest-profile cases resulting from a crackdown on Chinese influence on U.S. research.>Charles Lieber, a renowned nanoscientist and the former chairman of Harvard's chemistry department, was spared additional prison time in the sentence announced by U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel in Boston following his conviction in December 2021.>A federal jury had found him guilty of making false statements to authorities, filing false tax returns and failing to report a Chinese bank account in a case spilling out of the U.S. Department of Justice's "China Initiative.">Prosecutors alleged that Lieber, in his quest for a Nobel Prize, agreed in 2011 to become a "strategic scientist" at Wuhan University of Technology in China and through it participated in a Chinese recruitment drive called the Thousand Talents Program.The university he worked at is 15 minutes away from the level 4 biolab where covid likely originated from in China
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