Ex-Professor Says Dismissed Racketeering Case Is Still ‘Devastating’

Source: ttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/09/business/joy-laskar-georgia-tech-racketeering-case.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Feducation&action=click&contentCollection=education&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

This article looks at a former Professor at Georgia Tech who was fired because a grand jury indicted him for misusing university funds and other resources to benefit his own private start up. The case was tossed out before a trial because the ruling that a five-year state of limitation had expired on the misdeed that they had accused the professor of committing.

It is a really sad occasion and as pointed out in  the article that had this been at another top university, it would have been handled differently.  It is shameful that here we lost a top research scientist to industry because the college or state failed to follow up on their job and handle matters in a timely manner.

So now they literally destroyed a family or a persons career, and the college lost the talent. So no one gained anything here.  Since the case was tossed out, we cannot prove if he was guilty or not, and his family name has to live with that cloud hanging over it.