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Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate China Related Cases...
Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs website and official release ^ | Tuesday, January 28, 2020 | Department of Justice

Posted on 03/06/2020 9:28:33 PM PST by Bellagio

The DOJ announced the Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry/Chemical Biology Department and two Chinese nationals are charged in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China.

Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with one count of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement.

Yanqing Ye, 29, a Chinese national, was charged in an indictment today with one count each of visa fraud, making false statements, acting as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy. Ye is currently in China.

Zaosong Zheng, 30, a Chinese national, was arrested on Dec. 10, 2019, at Boston’s Logan International Airport and charged by criminal complaint with attempting to smuggle 21 vials of biological research to China. On Jan. 21, 2020, Zheng was indicted on one count of smuggling goods from the United States and one count of making false, fictitious or fraudulent statements. He has been detained since Dec. 30, 2019.

Lieber became a “Strategic Scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017. China’s Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese Talent recruit plans that are designed to attract, recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security. These talent programs seek to lure Chinese overseas talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and experience to China and reward individuals for stealing proprietary information. Under the terms of Lieber’s 3-year Thousand Talents contract, WUT paid Lieber $50,000 USD/month, living expenses up to 1,000,000 Chinese Yuan (approximately $158,000 USD at the time) and awarded him more than $1.5 million to establish a research lab at Wuhan.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; coronavirus; espionage; wuhan
Don't know if this was posted already since it was released by the DOJ on Tuesday, January 28, 2020. Interesting revelations that coincide with Wuhan, China... the epicenter of the caronavirus. It's genesis.

Federal Agents arrested Dr. Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, with lying to the Department of Defense about secret monthly payments of $50,000.00 paid by China and receipt of millions more to help set up a chemical/biological “Research” laboratory in China. Also arrested were two Chinese “Students” working as research assistants, one of whom was actually a lieutenant in the Chinese Army, the other captured at Logan Airport as he tried to catch a flight to China - smuggling 21 vials of “Sensitive Biological Samples” according to the FBI.

The research lab the good professor had helped set up? It’s located at the Wuhan University of Technology. Wuhan China is ground zero to the potentially global pandemic known as the “Coronavirus."

1 posted on 03/06/2020 9:28:33 PM PST by Bellagio
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To: Bellagio

BREAKING NEWS: John Harvard, a confirmed bachelor, was into hookers. His real last was Harvwhored. The university is considering changing its name.


2 posted on 03/06/2020 9:32:51 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (I miss Don Imus!)
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To: Bellagio

There should be a section of “The Wall” reserved for the execution of traitors as these POS.
KEEP AMERICA GREAT!


3 posted on 03/06/2020 9:34:01 PM PST by TaMoDee (The Pack will be back in 2020! Go Pack Go!!)
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To: Bellagio; null and void; aragorn; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; bgill; bitt; ...
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Zaosong Zheng, 30, a Chinese national, was arrested on Dec. 10, 2019, at Boston’s Logan International Airport and charged by criminal complaint with attempting to smuggle 21 vials of biological research to China.

Don't know if this was posted already since it was released by the DOJ on Tuesday, January 28, 2020. Interesting revelations that coincide with Wuhan, China... the epicenter of the caronavirus. It's genesis.

Federal Agents arrested Dr. Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, with lying to the Department of Defense about secret monthly payments of $50,000.00 paid by China and receipt of millions more to help set up a chemical/biological “Research” laboratory in China.

Also arrested were two Chinese “Students” working as research assistants, one of whom was actually a lieutenant in the Chinese Army, the other captured at Logan Airport as he tried to catch a flight to China - smuggling 21 vials of “Sensitive Biological Samples” according to the FBI.

The research lab the good professor had helped set up? It’s located at the Wuhan University of Technology. Wuhan China is ground zero to the potentially global pandemic known as the “Coronavirus."

4 posted on 03/06/2020 9:39:00 PM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT

I think the July event at the Winnipeg Virus Research lab is more likely the culprit.

Again, China stole a corona virus research sample and it went to Wuhan.


5 posted on 03/06/2020 9:42:01 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/national-microbiology-lab-scientist-investigation-china-1.5307424

Canadian government scientist under investigation trained staff at Level 4 lab in China

Xiangguo Qiu — who was escorted out of the Winnipeg lab in July amid an RCMP investigation into what’s being described by Public Health Agency of Canada as a possible “policy breach” — was invited to go to the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences twice a year for two years, for up to two weeks each time.

During a Sept. 19-30, 2017, trip, she also met with collaborators in Beijing, the documents say, but their names have also been blacked out.

Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng and her students from China were removed on July 5 from Canada’s only Level 4 lab — one equipped to work with the most serious and deadly human and animal diseases, such as Ebola.

Cheng also works at the lab as a biologist. He has published research papers on HIV infections, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), E. coli infections and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome.


6 posted on 03/06/2020 9:48:46 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: LucyT; Candor7

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related

Dr. Charles Lieber

According to court documents, since 2008, Dr. Lieber who has served as the Principal Investigator of the Lieber Research Group at Harvard University, which specialized in the area of nanoscience, has received more than $15,000,000 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Defense (DOD). These grants require the disclosure of significant foreign financial conflicts of interest, including financial support from foreign governments or foreign entities. Unbeknownst to Harvard University beginning in 2011, Lieber became a “Strategic Scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017. China’s Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese Talent recruit plans that are designed to attract, recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security. These talent programs seek to lure Chinese overseas talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and experience to China and reward individuals for stealing proprietary information. Under the terms of Lieber’s three-year Thousand Talents contract, WUT paid Lieber $50,000 USD per month, living expenses of up to 1,000,000 Chinese Yuan (approximately $158,000 USD at the time) and awarded him more than $1.5 million to establish a research lab at WUT. In return, Lieber was obligated to work for WUT “not less than nine months a year” by “declaring international cooperation projects, cultivating young teachers and Ph.D. students, organizing international conference[s], applying for patents and publishing articles in the name of” WUT.


7 posted on 03/06/2020 10:02:13 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Bellagio
THIS is why we have to take this seriously. China is not filling tunnels with dirt and building hospitals in "6 days" for a flu like virus.

This is probably manufactured in a lab, and meant to KILL. it got out by accident or it was released to stop the HK protests AND hurt the economy around the word to scare enough of the dumbocracy to vote Trump out of office.

Either way, they must PAY and pay dearly. We should cut them off and move everything to India. Or bring it back to the US. Or a combination of both. Let them all rot for all I care.

8 posted on 03/06/2020 10:32:56 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: Captainpaintball

> We should cut them off and move everything to India. Or bring it back to the US. <

Some of that will happen. Then a couple of years from now some accountant will realize that his company can save 1 cent per widget by moving the factories back to China.

Then it’s rinse and repeat.


9 posted on 03/07/2020 12:30:17 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Bellagio

Hopefully “Dr” Bandy Lee from Yale, that shrink remotely diagnosing Trump and trying to get him committed, is charged next with sedition.


10 posted on 03/07/2020 2:29:45 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Bellagio

China is our enemy.


11 posted on 03/07/2020 3:02:30 AM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: Captainpaintball

This is probably manufactured in a lab, and meant to KILL. it got out by accident or it was released to stop the HK protests AND hurt the economy around the word to scare enough of the dumbocracy to vote Trump out of office.

Either way, they must PAY and pay dearly. We should cut them off and move everything to India. Or bring it back to the US. Or a combination of both. Let them all rot for all I care.
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Finally a freeper with some sense of reality.

Timing is too coincidental. There are no coincidences. Perhaps also the Chinese met with Iran to sell them some of it, too.


12 posted on 03/07/2020 3:11:06 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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To: Bellagio

And we are suppose to be surprised. Our higher ed institutions are funded by the communist party of china


13 posted on 03/07/2020 3:18:59 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Fred Nerks

I am re-posting this article form India because it contributes to the evidence of China’s international effort to create a biological super weapon.

Red China is very active in Africa, where Canadian immunologist Christopher Plummer was assassinated for likely talking to the authorities who are investigating the Chinese initiatives of spying and stealing biological secrets and biological materials.He may have been an agent of the CIA or some other Western intelligence agency.

“Dr. Plummer, one of Canada’s leading scientists, died Feb. 4 in Nairobi, where he attended an annual meeting of an international HIV research collaborative he helped found. He was 67. Colleagues said he was feeling unwell while at lunch with his daughters, and collapsed as he returned to his hotel. He was driven to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead upon arrival. The cause of his death was not yet known at the time of publication.”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-renowned-microbiologist-frank-plummer-helped-fight-aids-and-sars/

In particular this thorough article traces the scientific reasons for believing that China has a bio-warfare program to dominate the world without using either conventional or nuclear warfare. This article is a beacon of truth, lengthy and extremely thorough:

COVID19 Files – Scientific Investigation On Mysterious Origin Of Coronavirus

https://greatgameindia.com/covid19-files-scientific-investigation-on-mysterious-origin-of-coronavirus/


14 posted on 03/07/2020 3:35:08 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Candor7

Not to dispute the common theme of a biological weapon, there could be a more devious reason for China unleashing this virus. Lieber was doing advanced cyborg work with the Chinese. Arnold Schwartzenager stuff. Check out this link...

http://cml.harvard.edu


15 posted on 03/07/2020 5:06:28 AM PST by 2Dreamin
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To: Bellagio

Meanwhile out in California:

U.S. lawmaker calls for ouster of CalPERS CIO over China ties: letter

A U.S. Republican lawmaker on Wednesday urged California to fire the chief investment officer of its public pension fund, the nation’s largest, citing what he called the CIO’s “long and cozy” relationship with Beijing, and assailed the fund’s investments in Chinese companies.

In between the CalPERS stints, Meng worked for three years as deputy CIO with China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), which oversees China’s U.S. Treasury security holdings, the website says

Citing an online article in China’s People’s Daily, Banks asserted that China’s Thousand Talents Program recruited Meng for the job at SAFE. According to the FBI, TTP is a part of “China’s non-traditional espionage against the United States.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-calpers/u-s-lawmaker-calls-for-ouster-of-calpers-cio-over-china-ties-letter-idUSKBN206310


16 posted on 03/07/2020 6:04:45 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Western universities and research institutes are full of Chi-com operatives. Who do you think is paying for all of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese students to go overseas to study? Same with the Saudi and Iranian students. There are quite a few millionaires in China, but most of these students would be from average families that would find it impossible to pay the steep tuition fees and living expenses while attending a major U.S. university. This Harvard situation is the tip of the iceberg.


17 posted on 03/07/2020 6:16:22 AM PST by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: Bellagio

I was just looking up this story. Isn’t this the reason Trump wanted travel limited from China and the Rats said no, that’s racist? Well now we got a virus from these Chicom mofos


18 posted on 03/19/2020 6:12:45 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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