"'No political refugee, even Albert Einstein, has received better treatment by an American academic institution than that received by Chen from NYU,' Cohen said.
"In responding to the New York Post story, Cohen told a writer and former State Department official named Emily Parker, 'No good deed goes unpunished.' (Parker tweeted the quote, which Cohen confirmed was his.)
Note: So Mr Einstein was a political refugee?! But it is not true, in any sense of the word. Certainly he was not admitted to US as a "refugee"--but as a scholar! See
Prominent Refugees. Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), undated http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c74-page4.html
("the rise of the Nazi party and anti-Semitism made it increasingly difficult for him to work and in 1932 he took up the offer of a post at Princeton. He became a citizen of the United States, but retained Swiss citizenship")