December 21, 2021: The Jury Convicted on All Six Counts

FINDING

Official/court finding: on December 21, 2021, after a six-day jury trial, Charles Lieber was convicted of two counts of making false statements to federal authorities, two counts of making and subscribing a false income tax return, and two counts of failing to file FBAR reports with the IRS. U.S. Senior District Judge Rya W. Zobel presided. The Department of Justice published the verdict the same day.

The convictions were 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (false statements), 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1) (false returns), and 31 U.S.C. §§ 5314/5322 (FBAR). The verdict is not titled espionage. See the China Initiative post.

Fox News (Rich Edson), Daily Wire (Ben Zeisloft), National Review (Zachary Evans), The Federalist (Jordan Boyd), Breitbart, and The Epoch Times wrote the verdict. Those pieces are reporting or commentary. The DOJ release is the finding.

Sources

DOJ OPA, “Harvard University Professor Convicted of Making False Statements and Tax Offenses,” 2021-12-21. www.justice.gov (primary)

CourtListener docket, 1:20-cr-10111. www.courtlistener.com (primary)

Fox News, Rich Edson, 2021-12-21. www.foxnews.com (reporting)

Daily Wire, Ben Zeisloft, “Harvard Chemistry Professor With Wuhan Links Found Guilty…”. www.dailywire.com (reporting)

National Review, Zachary Evans, “Jury Finds Harvard Professor Guilty of Concealing China Ties,” 2021-12-21. www.nationalreview.com (reporting)

Jordan Boyd, The Federalist, 2021-12-22. thefederalist.com (reporting)

Breitbart, “Harvard Prof Charles Lieber Found Guilty of Lying About Ties to China,” 2021-12-23. www.breitbart.com (reporting)

Epoch Times, conviction item. www.theepochtimes.com (reporting)

Opinion

The following is commentary by this site. It is not a finding of fact and not a legal conclusion.

Compiler take

Six counts. Six guilty. Not a Nobel. Not a spy novel. Paperwork he did not file and statements he did make. That is the verdict.