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Axing scandalous John Jay College professors will cost nearly half million dollars
By Melissa Klein
Published May 18, 2019
Updated May 18, 2019, 4:55 p.m. ET
Barry Spunt, Anthony Marcus and Ric Curtis
John Jay College
The cost to taxpayers of the John Jay College sex and drugs scandal is nearing a half million dollars — and climbing.
The criminal justice school, part of the public City University of New York, decided last week to move forward with firing three professors accused of sexual harassment and selling and using drugs on campus.
The Post in September first exposed the allegations brought by two former students who claimed professor Ric Curtis, who once chaired the anthropology and sociology departments, was the ringleader of a lurid, drug-abusing culture in an area of offices called “The Swamp.” One of the women alleged in her complaint submitted to the college that Curtis tried “pimping out students,” while a second woman said he tried to get her to have sex with his colleagues.