The federal dragnet is so massive that investigators have given the case the code name 'Lurking Giants.'
The federal dragnet is so massive that investigators have given the case the code name"Lurking Giants."
Prosecutors say Lieber created a bank account in China to hide the $50,000 monthly stipend he was getting from the Chinese—a violation of his contract with the DOD and with Harvard—and the $158,000 he received for living expenses connected to his travel to the shadow lab he created at the Wuhan University of Technology.
Institutions are required to report any foreign gifts over under the Higher Education Act. Those ten schools have since reported $3.6 billion in foreign gifts, the Department of Education said, but there are still ongoing investigations into monies that poured into Harvard and Yale. MIT's hiring of a Boston law firm came after one of its biology professors, Jianzhu Chen, was questioned by immigration officials at Boston's Logan Airport after returning from China in May. He said he was asked,"Do you work for a foreign government?" and grilled about his travel to China and a trip to Russia.
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