Harvard’s Lieber convicted in anti-China crackdown

Obviously not too big to fail ...

The article is deceptive in many ways. What really sunk him was the fact that he failed to report the income and also foreign bank accounts. As a US citizen he had to report his bank account details (using what is known as FBAR). He is also required to account for all of his world-wide income, no matter the source. There are significant penalties in both cases and your US tax return is linked to these FBAR filings. In his case, the issue was compounded by the fact that he was failing to report COI w/r to his grants (again something all of us must do -- and if you have a question, err on the side of caution). Here is another case that led to jail time that had nothing to do with China. https://www.comp-matters.com/article.php?id=173163