Em­bat­tled Har­vard sci­en­tist Charles Lieber goes on a counter-of­fen­sive, hir­ing high-pro­file lawyer and su­ing Har­vard for aban­don­ing him amid fed­er­al probe

Charles Lieber, the Har­vard sci­en­tist fac­ing fed­er­al charges for al­leged­ly ly­ing about Chi­nese fund­ing, is mount­ing a fierce le­gal de­fense, be­gin­ning with the en­list­ment of a high-pro­file at­tor­ney and a law­suit against his em­ploy­er.

Lieber hired Marc Mukasey, a crim­i­nal at­tor­ney who de­fend­ed for­mer Navy Seal Ed­ward Gal­lagher against war crime charges last year and cur­rent­ly rep­re­sents Er­ic Trump in a New York state fraud case, the New York Times first re­port­ed. And on Fri­day, he filed suit against Har­vard, al­leg­ing the uni­ver­si­ty aban­doned him and their re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to in­dem­ni­fy him or aid his le­gal de­fense.

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