Harvard Professor Faces Tax Charges for Allegedly Lying About His Ties to Chinese School
A seal hangs over a construction at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts November 16, 2012. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
Lieber was once up to now indicted on two counts of mendacity to federal government and pleaded now not accountable. His legal professional disputed the allegations.
- Associated Press Boston
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A Harvard College professor already going through federal fees for allegedly mendacity about his ties to a Chinese language-run recruitment program now faces further fees of failing to record source of revenue from a Chinese language college to the IRS, federal prosecutors mentioned.
Chemistry professor Charles Lieber, 61, was once indicted via a grand jury on two counts of failing to document experiences of overseas financial institution and monetary accounts and two counts of constructing and subscribing a false source of revenue tax go back, the place of business of U.S. Lawyer Andrew Lelling mentioned in a observation Tuesday. Lieber is accused of failing to record source of revenue from Wuhan College of Era.
Lieber was once up to now indicted on two counts of mendacity to federal government and pleaded now not accountable. His legal professional disputed the allegations. “The perception that Professor Lieber was once engaged in mistaken paintings with China is laughable,” Marc Mukasey mentioned in an electronic mail to The Boston Globe.
“He did not disguise anything else, and he did not receives a commission as the federal government alleges. … He’s blameless and his title might be cleared.”
A Harvard spokesman declined to remark. The Ivy League college put Lieber on administrative go away in January when he was once first arrested.
He was once charged then with hiding his involvement in China’s Thousand Skills Plan, a program designed to trap other folks with wisdom of overseas generation and highbrow assets to China.
