 During his arraignment, authorities executed search warrants at his home and office in Lexington, Massachusetts.Lieber has been placed on paid administrative leave by Harvard.On June 9, 2020 the Department of Justice indicted Lieber on false statement charges alleging that, unbeknownst to Harvard University and beginning in 2011, Lieber became a “Strategic Scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China.