Harvard’s powerful governing body is facing calls for its dismissal and a full-scale Congressional investigation into how it covered up allegations that university president Claudine Gay was a plagiarist, The Post has learned.
Republican lawmakers will “use every tool at their disposal,” including subpoena powers, to examine how 12 members of the Harvard Corporation protected Gay for weeks before he finally quit last week after a storm over his handling of antisemitism on campus and allegations he was a serial plagiarist. .
Gay will remain a $900,000-a-year faculty member. He wrote an op-ed in the New York Times claiming it was racism that led to the plagiarism allegations being uncovered against him, as he was Harvard’s first black president.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) told The Post that the company, led by billionaire former Obama commerce secretary Penny Pritzker, has shut down “Gay’s career of plagiarism” and should pay the price for “bullying and censorship.”
A House panel investigating antisemitism at Harvard will use subpoena powers to investigate Harvard Corporation’s secret investigation into former president Claudine Gay. Reuters GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik told The Post that Republicans will use subpoena power to find all of Harvard’s secret hiding allegations that Gay is a serial plagiarist. REUTERS Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned as president of the Ivy League school on January 2. AP
Pritzker’s company used lawyers to issue two bullying letters to The Post during a weeks-long campaign to hide the truth — that Gay was credibly accused of plagiarism — and stand behind false claims that Gay was innocent before administrators were investigated.
Harvard first put its full weight behind Gay in late October when The Post first asked the university to comment on a series of allegations that its president had dismissed the work of other academics as his own throughout his career.
The Post published the threatening letter sent by Harvard lawyers, Clare Locke’s firm, today in full.
Billionaire Penny Pritzker, who heads the Harvard Corporation, is under pressure to resign after she and the board of directors “used every avenue available to cover up Claudine Gay’s failure,” according to Rep. Republican Elise Stefanik. AP Gay’s handling of displays of antisemitism on campus at Harvard first led to pressure on him. But when The Post sought comment on the alleged antisemitism, the college’s power corporation signed a legal letter whose claims were later proven false, and which demanded that the claims be censored. AFP via Getty Images
They show Harvard’s protectionist campaign in action in October and November, when Gay came under increasing pressure over the handling of anti-Semitism on campus.
Harvard used its bully lawyer to falsely claim, on October 27, that the samples of Gay’s work we questioned were “both properly cited and credited,” and that the plagiarism allegations were “defamatory forgeries” — which effectively cleared Gay of any investigation. can take a place
“Harvard and President Gay stand together in their determination that the proposed article should not be published,” said the Oct. 27 letter Clare-Locke sent to The Post’s attorney.
In a second letter from the firm, dated Nov. 7, attorneys for Harvard and Gay claimed, “We have conclusively refuted (with evidence) all false allegations of plagiarism that have been presented to date.”
But in secret the company decided to launch an investigation into the allegations — facts withheld from students, faculty, donors and lawmakers who called Gay to testify against them — and brought in an outside panel of experts whose identities remain shrouded. .
This was the first letter Harvard sent through its lawyer Clare Locke, saying that Harvard had effectively cleared Claudine Gay, just three days after it was first informed of the alleged plagiarism. Clare Locke LLP
On November 7, Penny Prtizker’s corporation doubled down on the claim that the plagiarism allegations had been “conclusively” disproved. But Gay was actually being investigated for the allegations and not cleared. Clare Locke LLP
At the end of the investigation, Gay made corrections regarding four of the allegations of plagiarism The Post raised.
This means that his work was not “properly cited and credited,” and that the alleged plagiarism was not “conclusively verified.”
And a few days later, Gay later made a correction to his Harvard PhD when it was also revealed to include the work of other academics without attribution.
The Post presents an example of this possible plagiarism, published in the Urban Affairs Review in 2017, when Gay was dean of social sciences at Harvard. Harvard’s attorney told us it was “correctly quoted,” but a few weeks later Harvard said it asked to correct it to add quotation marks and citations. This is one of 27 examples that The Post asked Harvard to comment on. It was published in the journal Urban Affairs in 2011. Williamson said it was not plagiarism and a Harvard lawyer told The Post that it was “properly cited,” but it was one piece that Harvard said Gay would ask to be properly credited in his 2017 paper.
“Harvard University and the Harvard Corporation are using every avenue available to cover up Claudine Gay’s failures, threatening the New York Post following their investigation and coverage of Claudine Gay’s past serial plagiarism and failed leadership,” Stefanik told The Post.
“This attempted bullying and censorship by the Harvard Corporation is unacceptable and should result in the immediate dismissal of the board members involved.
“The House Education and Workforce congressional investigation will use every tool at its disposal, including subpoena power, to investigate Harvard’s actions in concealing Claudine Gay’s career plagiarism, attempts to silence the truth-seeking media, and exposing the rot of antisemitism that plagues our nation’s colleges. and universities.”
Pritzker and other board members declined to comment to The Post. Harvard spokesman Jonathan Swain, a former Democratic party official, also declined to comment.
Among the 27 examples The Post asked Harvard to review were examples of Gay’s work while he was a graduate student, published in a specialist magazine. Harvard did not review the 1993 work at all, in part because of its age. Covin is dead.
On Saturday, the New York Times published allegations that the board was internally divided over whether to keep Gay, who Prtizker had pushed to become president, in his role. Finally, it was Pritzker who called Gay
The billionaire has remained silent on Gay and on the false allegations in the legal letter he authorized as the most senior member of the corporation.
Pritzker, scion of the Hyatt Hotels family whose brother JB Prtizker is the Democratic governor of Illinois, is also Pres. Biden’s special envoy for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery, puts him in charge of how tens of billions in aid to the war-torn country is spent.
The House Education and Workforce Committee began investigating antisemitism on college campuses in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, leading to Gay’s bad appearance in early December when he told Stefanik that whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated Harvard rules “depends on the context .”
“Claudine Gay resigned by force. is just the beginning of uncovering the biggest scandal of any college or university in history,” Stefanik told The Post.
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