June 8, 2001

The Puzzling Path From Professor to Drug Mule

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

Colleagues are dumbfounded by the demise of a noted legal scholar

Maybe the professor used vegetable oil to ease the balloons of cocaine down his gagging throat. Maybe he chased them with a glass or two of water. That's what the drug mules do.

It was Easter in Amsterdam. Gennady M. Danilenko was thousands of miles from either of his homes -- the house he owns here, and an apartment in Moscow. The Russian law professor at Wayne State University, a widely published international