In lieu of that one
Why didn't us govt charge lieber with espionage or intellectual property theft?
https://www.science.org/content/article/trial-harvard-chemist-poses-test-u-s-government-s-controversial-china-initiative
The arrest of Harvard University chemistry professor Charles Lieber on 28 January 2020 drew worldwide attention to the Department of Justice’s China Initiative, launched in November 2018 amid concerns that China was improperly benefiting from U.S.-funded research. In a press conference announcing the arrest, then-U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling declared that Lieber, chair of Harvard’s chemistry department at the time and celebrated for his research on nanomaterials, had contributed to “the ongoing threat posed by Chinese economic espionage and research theft in the United States.”
But Lieber was never charged with espionage or theft of intellectual property—two of the concerns driving the China Initiative. Instead, when Lieber’s trial begins on 14 December in a Boston federal courtroom, prosecutors will try to persuade a jury that Lieber lied to federal funding agencies about his affiliation with one Chinese university and failed to report income to federal tax and banking authorities.