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>Subject: Let's study heroin!
>Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:05:10 -0700
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>Boy, if this isn't the tip of an iceburg of wasted tax dollars.
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>Enjoy,
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>Peter
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>New York Times
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>October 26, 1999
>
>Heroin Use Is Charged in Drug Study
>
>By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
>
>  professor of anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who 
has
>studied drugs and drug cultures for 25 years was accused in a Federal
>complaint on Monday of misusing funds from a $2.6 million Federal grant 
to
>buy drugs for addicts he interviewed and to pay for travel and other
>personal expenses.
>The professor, Ansley Hamid, 55, was accused of misusing thousands in grant
>money in 1996 and 1997 to pay for trips to Florida, Hawaii and Trinidad, 
to
>buy compact disks and CD equipment and to hire two assistants who worked
>mainly on his book manuscripts, all unrelated to his study of drug use 
in
>New York City.
>
>Professor Hamid, a native of Trinidad who holds a doctorate from Columbia
>University, has published books and many articles in professional journals
>and has taught at John Jay since 1984, was also said by prosecutors to 
have
>admitted experimenting with heroin for a month while he was the principal
>investigator for his study, called "Heroin in the 21st Century."
>
>The Federal complaint, based on a two-year investigation and filed by the
>office of United States Attorney Mary Jo White in Manhattan, accused
>Professor Hamid of embezzling Government funds in excess of $5,000 -- no
>exact amount was specified -- a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison
>and fines of $250,000.
>
>Appearing in Federal Court in Manhattan, Professor Hamid did not enter 
a
>plea to the charges. He was ordered to surrender his passport and was
>released on a $25,000 bond for a hearing on Nov. 29.
>
>In a telephone interview from his home in Manhattan Monday night, Professor
>Hamid vehemently denied all the allegations, responding to each with
>detailed explanations of his conduct, and insisted that the charges had
>grown out of a conspiracy by prosecutors and his own subordinates and
>colleagues at John Jay College, who he said were envious of his success 
in
>obtaining Federal grants and prominence in studies on anthropology and 
drug
>use.
>
>Since 1996, he said, he had received $7.2 million in grants from the
>National Institute on Drug Abuse, a division of the Federal Department 
of
>Health and Human Services, to conduct two studies, one focusing on drug 
use
>in New York City and another on American, English and French drug policies
>as they were being applied in New York, Trinidad and Martinique and
>Guadalupe.
>
>"This really did not go down well with colleagues," he said.
>
>After the allegations against him first surfaced in 1997, he said, John 
Jay
>removed him from his research work, reassigned him to classroom teaching,
>and raised questions about his right to tenure. Last November, he said, 
he
>filed a complaint with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
>accusing the college of discriminating against him. In what he termed an 
act
>of retaliation, the college then suspended him and brought charges seeking
>to take away his tenure and dismiss him.
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