evidence: A criminal trial of Charles M. Lieber, a chemistry professor at Harvard University, is scheduled to begin Dec. 14 at a federal court in Boston. Lieber faces two felony charges for making false statements to government investigators and four felony charges for tax-related offenses, including not disclosing a foreign bank account and failing to report income from Wuhan University of Technology (WUT). Lieber pleaded not guilty to all charges. Check here for daily updates and key information from C&EN reporters in the courtroom. [...] Next, the prosecution called US Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent Kara Spice to testify. Spice was involved in Lieber’s arrest and subsequent questioning on Jan. 28, 2020. Assistant US Attorney Jason Casey asked Spice about email exchanges between Liqiang Mai, who worked in Lieber’s lab from 2008 to 2011. According to Mai’s website, he has been a professor at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) since 2004 and is now dean of WUT’s School of Materials Science and Engineering. [...] Federal authorities arrested Lieber and charged him with fraud on Jan. 28, 2020. Lieber’s lab at Harvard has received grants from the US National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Defense for more than $15 million since 2008, according to an indictment filed on July 28, 2020.