Harvard University's powerful governing body is facing calls for its removal and a full-scale investigation by Congress into how it covered up plagiarism allegations against President Claudine Gay, the Post reported.
Republican lawmakers “used every means possible,” including subpoena power, to defend Harvard, a 12-member board until it resigned last week in the wake of an uproar over anti-Semitism on campus and allegations of serial plagiarism. It will investigate how the university protected gay people for several weeks. .
Gay will remain a member of the faculty who will receive $900,000 a year. She wrote an op-ed for the New York Times arguing that the revelation of her plagiarism allegations against her was racially biased because she was the first black president of Harvard University.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) told the Post that the companies led by billionaire Obama's former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker were hiding a “history of gay plagiarism,” and were accused of “bullying and censorship.” He said he should pay a price.
Mr. Pritzker's corporation used a lawyer to issue two bullying letters to the Post during a weeks-long campaign to cover up the fact that Gay had been accused of plagiarism, prompting administrators to investigate. supported the false claim that gay people were innocent.
Harvard University first fully defended Ms. Gay in late October, when the newspaper first spoke out about a series of allegations that the president had misrepresented the work of other scholars as her own throughout her career. The university was contacted for comment.
The Post today published the full text of the threatening letter sent by Harvard lawyer Claire Locke of Bare Knuckle.
They show that Harvard's cover-up took place in October and November, when gays were under increasing pressure over how to deal with anti-Semitism on campus.
On October 27, Harvard University used a bullying lawyer to falsely claim that the gay research we asked about had been “cited and properly credited,” and that the alleged plagiarism had been “quoted and properly credited.” He claimed that it was a false and defamatory statement. In effect, he was cleared of being gay before the investigation even began. It will be done.
“Harvard University and President Gay are united in our determination that the proposed article should not be published,” reads an Oct. 27 letter from Claire Locke to the Post's lawyers. .
In a second letter from the firm, dated Nov. 7, Harvard and Gay's lawyers wrote that they “conclusively refute (with evidence) all of the false claims of plagiarism that have been submitted to date. I did,” he claimed.
However, the company decided to secretly launch an investigation into the allegations, hiding this fact from students, faculty, donors, and lawmakers who summoned gay men and women to give evidence, but their identities An external expert committee was convened, which is still concealing the issue. .
At the end of that investigation, Gay issued corrections regarding four of the plagiarism allegations raised by the Post.
That meant her work was “not cited or properly credited” and the plagiarism allegations were not “conclusively refuted.”
A few days later, it was revealed that Gay's Harvard Ph.D. also contained work by other scholars whose sources were unknown, so he corrected his claims.
“Harvard University and the Harvard Corporation have used every means possible to cover up Claudine Gay's failures and to blackmail the New York Post following their investigation and reporting on Claudine Gay's serial plagiarist past and failed leadership. ” Stefanik told the Post.
“This attempt at bullying and censorship by Harvard University is unacceptable and should result in the immediate removal of the directors involved.
“An ongoing parliamentary inquiry by the House of Commons Education Department and Labor will use all available means, including subpoena powers, to cover up Claudine Gay’s plagiarism history by Harvard University and silence media seeking the truth. “We will investigate efforts to do so, and expose the anti-Semitic corruption plaguing our nation's universities.” ”
Pritzker and other board members declined to comment to the Post. Jonathan Swain, a former Democratic operative and Harvard University spokesperson, also declined to comment.
On Saturday, The New York Times publishes the claim The board was reportedly divided over whether to keep Gay, who Prutiker had recommended, as chairman.In the end, it was Pritzker who called Gay.
The billionaire has remained silent about gays and the false claims in legal letters that gave him power as the company's most senior member.
Mr. Pritzker is the son of the Hyatt hotel family, and his younger brother, JB Pritzker, is also the Democratic governor of Illinois. He is Mr. Biden's special envoy for economic recovery in Ukraine, responsible for how tens of billions of dollars in aid to the war-torn country are spent.
The House Education and Labor Committee launched an investigation into anti-Semitism on college campuses in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, which led to the horrific sightings of gay men in early December. Gay told Stefanik whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard's rules “depends on the context.” ”
“The forced resignation of Claudine Gay is long overdue. This is just the beginning of exposing the biggest university scandal in history,” Stefanik told the Post.
