A Harvard University professor was found guilty by a U.S. jury on Tuesday of lying to authorities about his ties to the Thousand Talents Plan, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) well-financed job recruitment program. Charles Lieber, 62, was the former chairman of Harvard’s department of chemistry and chemical biology. He was found guilty by a federal jury in Boston on all counts—six felony charges comprising two counts of making false statements, two counts of filing false tax returns, and two counts of failing to file reports for a foreign bank account in China. The jury arrived at the verdict after 2 hours and 45 minutes of deliberations and five days of testimony. Federal prosecutors alleged that Lieber agreed in 2011 to become a “strategic scientist” at the Wuhan University of Technology in China and participated in the CCP’s Thousand Talents Plan while working on sensitive U.S. research. Lieber was also …