Harvard’s powerful governing body is facing calls for its dismissal and a full-scale congressional investigation into how it covered up allegations that the university’s president, Claudine Gay, was a plagiarist, The Post has learned.
Republican lawmakers “will use every tool available,” including subpoenas, to examine how the 12-member Harvard Corporation protected Gay for weeks before he finally resigned last week after a firestorm over his handling of anti-Semitism at the campus and accusations that she was a serial plagiarist. .
Gay will remain a faculty member earning $900,000 a year. She wrote an op-ed in the New York Times claiming that it was racism that caused plagiarism accusations against her to come to light, because she was Harvard’s first black president.
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) told The Post that the corporation, run by billionaire former Obama Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, had covered up “Gay’s plagiarism career” and should pay the price for “the intimidation.” and censorship.”
The House panel that investigated anti-Semitism at Harvard will use subpoenas to investigate how the Harvard Corporation protected former President Claudine Gay. REUTERS Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) told The Post that Republicans will use subpoenas to examine Harvard’s cover-up of allegations that Gay was a serial plagiarist. REUTERS Claudine Gay resigned as president of the Ivy League school on January 2. AP
Pritzker’s corporation used lawyers to send two intimidating letters to the Post during a weeks-long campaign to conceal the truth (that Gay was credibly accused of plagiarism) and defended false claims that Gay was innocent even before the administrator had been investigated.
Harvard fully supported Gay for the first time in late October, when The Post first asked the university to comment on a series of accusations that its president had passed off the work of other scholars as her own throughout her tenure. career.
Today the Post publishes in full the threatening letters sent by Harvard lawyers, the Clare Locke firm.
Billionaire Penny Pritzker, who runs 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 failures,” according to Rep. Elise Stefanik. AP Gay’s handling of anti-Semitism protests on Harvard’s campus generated pressure on her. But when The Post asked for comment on the anti-Semitism allegations, the university’s powerful corporation signed a legal letter whose claims were later proven false and demanding censorship of the claims. AFP via Getty Images
They show Harvard’s cover-up campaign in action in October and November, a time when Gay was under increasing pressure for his handling of anti-Semitism on campus.
Harvard used its bullying lawyers to falsely claim, on October 27, that the examples of Gay’s work we asked about were “cited and properly credited” and that the plagiarism accusations were “defamatory falsehoods”; in fact, they cleared Gay before any investigation could begin. occur.
“Harvard and President Gay are united in their determination that the proposed article should not be published,” said the Oct. 27 letter sent by Clare Locke to the Post’s lawyers.
This was the first letter Harvard sent through lawyers Clare Locke, saying that Harvard had already effectively cleared Claudine Gay, just three days after it was first alerted to allegations of plagiarism. Clare Locke LLP
In a second letter from the firm, dated November 7, lawyers for Harvard and Gay stated: “We have conclusively refuted (with evidence) all false accusations of plagiarism that have been raised to date.”
But secretly, the corporation decided to launch an investigation into the allegations (a fact it hid from students, professors, donors and legislators who subpoenaed Gay to present evidence to them) and hired a panel of outside experts whose identities it is still covering up. .
On November 7, Penny Prtizker’s company doubled down, stating that the plagiarism accusations had been “conclusively” refuted. But in fact, Gay was under investigation for exactly those claims and was not acquitted. Clare Locke LLP
At the end of that investigation, Gay made corrections related to four of the plagiarism allegations The Post raised.
That meant that his work was not “properly cited or credited” and that accusations of plagiarism had not been “conclusively refuted.”
And days later, Gay made corrections to his Harvard doctoral dissertation when it was also revealed that it included the work of other scholars without attribution.
The Post featured this example of possible plagiarism, published in Urban Affairs Review in 2017, when Gay was dean of social sciences at Harvard. Harvard lawyers told us he was “properly cited,” but weeks later, Harvard said it was asking to be corrected to add quotation marks and citations. This was one of 27 cases in which The Post asked Harvard to comment. It was published in the peer-reviewed journal Urban Affairs in 2011. Williamson said it was not plagiarism and Harvard lawyers told The Post it was “correctly cited,” but it is one of the works that Harvard said Gay would ask to have will be credited correctly. in his 2017 article.
“Harvard University and the Harvard Corporation used every avenue available to cover up Claudine Gay’s failures, threatening the New York Post following its investigation and coverage of Claudine Gay’s serial plagiarist past and failed leadership,” Stefanik told ThePost.
“These attempts at intimidation and censorship by the Harvard Corporation are unacceptable and should result in the immediate dismissal of the board members involved.
“The House’s ongoing congressional investigation of Education and the Workforce will use every tool available, including subpoena power, to investigate Harvard’s cover-up of Claudine Gay’s plagiarism career, attempts to silence the truth-seeking media and expose the rot of anti-Semitism that plagues our nation. colleges and universities.”
Pritzker and the other board members declined to comment to The Post. Harvard spokesman Jonathan Swain, a former member of the Democratic Party, also declined to comment.
Among the 27 cases The Post asked Harvard to comment on was this example of Gay’s work as a graduate student, published in a trade journal. 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 claims that the board had fractured internally over whether to keep Gay, whom Pritzker had pushed to become president, in place. In the end, it was Pritzker who called Gay.
The billionaire has remained silent about Gay and about the false claims in the legal letters he authorized as the corporation’s ranking member.
Pritzker, a scion of the Hyatt Hotels family whose brother JB Prtizker is the Democratic governor of Illinois, is also President Biden’s special envoy for Ukraine’s economic recovery, putting her in charge of how tens of billions in aid are spent. country devastated by war.
The House Education and Workforce Committee began investigating anti-Semitism on college campuses in the wake of Hamas’ attacks on Israel on October 7, leading to Gay’s disastrous appearance in early December, when He told Stefanik that whether calling for Jewish genocide violated Harvard rules “depended on context.”
“Claudine Gay’s long-awaited forced resignation is just the beginning of exposing the biggest scandal of any college or university in history,” Stefanik told The Post.
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