Harvard scientist is arrested, accused of lying about ties to China

Re:Harvard scientist is arrested, accused of lying about tie... by jcampbell1 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:04PM (#22177288)

In 2012, he agreed to accept what he likely considered prize money and renting his name as an endorsement. I doubt he did much work for WUT. Fast forward to today and the Thousand Talents Program is considered an espionage tool by the US Senate, and when he is asked about it, he lies to both Harvard and the DoD. He is in deep shit.

I think how much trouble he is in is going to come down to whether he notified the IRS of the Chinese bank accounts. There is nothing juries hate more than millionaires who cheat on their taxes and it will look terrible if he hid the money.

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Re:Harvard scientist is arrested, accused of lying about tie... by cat199 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:44AM (#22178905)

> In 2012, he agreed to accept what he likely considered prize money and renting his name as an endorsement.

If you are a tenured/tenure-track professor at a tier-1 research university, your name is literally your career - you don't rent this out lightly on some whim. You also don't take money from another institution to create the 'X+Y University Collaborative Research Lab' without running this by legal.

Further, the affidavit outlines more involved collaboration (co-advising / hosting / advising students, $800k to build a joint-lab etc).

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