Prosecutors Drop Drug Charges Against CUNY Scholar

Federal prosecutors have withdrawn charges against an anthropologist they had accused of embezzling grant money to buy heroin for a research project. But government officials said they would continue to investigate, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where the anthropologist is a tenured professor, promised to pursue efforts to fire him.

The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan had investigated Ansley Hamid for two years before finally charging him

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