Harvard Dodges Fees for Criminal Probe of Professor’s China Ties

A Harvard University professor convicted of lying to federal officials about his business dealings with China’s Wuhan University of Technology lost his bid to force the school to pay his attorneys’ fees and defense costs, Massachusetts’ top court said.

Charles Lieber chaired Harvard’s chemistry and chemical biology department and was principal investigator of a research group funded primarily through grants from the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health.

According to correspondence found on Lieber’s Harvard email account, he entered into three contracts with WUT, one relating to his participation in a program designed by the Chinese government ...