| By Mae T. Weir
By Hugo C. Chiasson and Elise A. Spenner, Crimson Staff Writers
A former Justice Department civil rights attorney accused Trump administration officials of predetermining the outcomes of antisemitism investigations into Harvard and other universities and pursuing sweeping penalties before investigators had established civil rights violations, according to a whistleblower account filed Monday.
The 25-page disclosure from Haley Van Erem also adds new detail about the settlement terms Trump administration officials were considering with Harvard in April 2025. More notably, the proposal would have required Harvard to invest in programs in Israel and place endowment money in trusts that the government could seize — provisions that had not previously been disclosed.
The proposal also called for Harvard to enter new memorandums of understanding with police, fleshing out an earlier April 3 strategy memo that contemplated requiring greater collaboration between the University and law enforcement.
The disclosure underscores that the April 11 letter — a sweeping list of demands that Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 publicly shot down as a violation of the University’s academic freedom — represented a less expansive version of some of the interventions administration officials were floating privately.
The proposed settlement is one of several previously unreported details included in the disclosure, which offers a granular window into the early days of the Trump...
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