Ex-Harvard Professor Charles Lieber Receives Sentence and Fine for China Ties

Former Harvard chemistry professor, Charles Lieber, has been sentenced to two days in prison, followed by two years of supervised release with six months of home confinement, for making false statements to the U.S. government and failing to declare large sums of money he’d been paid as part of a contract with a Chinese program, Thousand Talents, and Wuhan University in China. He is also to pay a fine of $50,000 along with $34,000 restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.