A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been accused of failing to disclose his work for groups connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while he was accepting grant money from U.S. agencies, the Justice Department said on Jan. 14. Gang Chen, 56, was charged in a criminal complaint with making false statements on a tax return, committing wire fraud, and failing to file a foreign bank account report, the DOJ said in a statement. Chen, a naturalized U.S. citizen from China, serves as the head of the MIT Pappalardo Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory and director of the Solid-State Solar Thermal Energy Conversion Center. Since about 2013, Chen has been funded by more than $19 million in U.S. agency grants, according to the statement. “Since 2012, Chen has allegedly held various appointments with the [CCP] designed to promote” China’s “technological and scientific development by providing advice and expertise” and sometimes directly to CCP …