Har­vard's Charles Lieber in­dict­ed for ly­ing to the feds, bring­ing US re­searcher­s' Chi­na ties back to the spot­light

Five months af­ter his shock­ing ar­rest, Charles Lieber has been in­dict­ed by a fed­er­al grand ju­ry for ly­ing to au­thor­i­ties about his in­volve­ment in Chi­na’s Thou­sand Tal­ents Pro­gram.

The 61-year-old sci­en­tist — who chaired Har­vard’s chem­istry de­part­ment and led a lab spe­cial­iz­ing in nanoscience be­fore he was ar­rest­ed and placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave in late Jan­u­ary — is fac­ing two counts of mak­ing false state­ments. He will be ar­raigned in fed­er­al court at a lat­er date, and is ex­pect­ed to con­test the charges.

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