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James Fine, Karyna Shuliak, and Columbia Dental’s Epstein Problem (6/3/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of The
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Epstein Chronicles. A couple of weeks ago, we were talking
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about Columbia University and the games they played to help
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Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend, Krinny a Shuliac get into the university. Well,
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now the person responsible for that, or one of the
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people responsible for that, has lost their job. And that
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person is doctor James Fine, who is a senior associate
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dean for a post doctoral academic and student affairs and
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he's going to be stepping down for the role that
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he played in making all of that happen. And look,
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I'm not going to sit here and tell you that
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only Jeffrey Epstein was able to do things like this.
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This is something that rich people do all the time.
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They reach out to people that are at universities or corporations, whatever,
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and they find a way for their family members or
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their loved ones to get into the university of their choice,
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even if their qualifications might be a little bit lacking.
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So it's not just Jeffreyeppeein that does this or did this.
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It's certainly something that all these kinds of people do.
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I mean, look at that college scandal we saw from
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a few years ago. I forget the lady's name, but
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some famous lady, several famous people. They were sending their
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kids to college, I forget what schools under false pretenses.
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And they ended up going to prison for it. So
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it's not like it's not a big deal. It is.
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So it's nice to see Columbia here make a move
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and get rid of this dude. All right, So let's
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see what this article has to say. This article was
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published by the Columbia Spectator and the Headline College. A
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dental medicine administrator who twice aided Epstein's girlfriend's admission is
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said to exit their post. This article was authored by
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Yushoshi Does and Fiona who. Nearly four months after the
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university said it had discipline those involved in the irregular
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admission of Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend to the College of Dental Medicine,
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Columbia announced Wednesday that another key administrator implicated, doctor James Fine,
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Senior Associate dean for a post doctoral academic and student Affairs,
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will step down from his role. Look all, hope is
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not lost for doctor Fine. There's always clown College. The
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announcement comes a month after a Spectator found that Fine
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had written Krinna Shuliac Dental fifteen and twenty five, a
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letter of recommendation in twenty twenty three for a postdoctoral
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program that he oversaw, and that he helped her cheat
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on her transfer exam more than a decade earlier, in
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twenty twelve, when the convicted sex offender first sought to
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get her into the College of Dental Medicine. Probably a
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good idea to have Corinnia Shuliac come in and speak
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to Congress. I mean, we're talking to Ted Waite and
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not Corinnia Shuliac, the last person to speak to Epstein
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on the phone. I would think that they'd want to
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speak with crini a Shuliac, especially considering that the phone
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that Epstein made tour that was supposed to be recorded wasn't.
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Fine however, will not fully exit the university. The tenured
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professor will retain his position as a faculty member and
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the director of the Faculty Practices at the College of
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Dental Medicine, the university announced. I mean that's the best
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Columbia could come up with. What kind of message does
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that send to the other people, other students, other people
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that might want to do the same shit, mister finded. Well,
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I might get demoted, but I'm not going to lose
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my gig. It's not going to be complete embarrassment. So
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I might as well hang out with the next Epstein
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and hook him up. I mean, in the land of
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the lawless, there is no law right, so everybody should
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just do whatever they want to do, no repercussions. Nobody
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ever gets in trouble for anything, so why not. Find's
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involvement in Shuliac's admission to Columbia began when his close
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friend doctor Thomas mcnonnie Dental eighty, contacted him after Shuliac
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was initially redjet acted from the school in twenty eleven. Magnanni,
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the dentist who first brought Epstein into the school's orbit,
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wrote to Epstein in twenty twelve that he just spoke
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with Jim Fine and he'll know tomorrow what they will
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test her on, and that a transfer test was necessary
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to keep this on the up and up. Less than
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three months after his initial rejection, Shuliac was accepted as
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a transfer student. She graduated in twenty fifteen. Imagine going
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to get your chompers cleaned from Jeffrey Epstein's ex girlfriend.
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I mean, what's next a prostate exam from nurse Ratchet.
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After graduating, Fine arranged an internship for Shuliac in twenty
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twenty three at Magnanni's Columbia affiliated private practice, where Fine
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also worked. Fine and Magnanni both provided dental care to
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Abstein and his associates and maintained long standing personal ties
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with the sex offender, according to the Justice Department records.
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But they didn't really know him. Look just a couple
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of emails. We knew the guy in passing, we hardly
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had anything to do with them. Don't believe what you
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see in those emails. It's all just a hoax. That's
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the kind of bullshit these people are still trying to pull. Buddy,
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we saw the emails. We know how close you were,
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and we know that you were giving them favorable treatment
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at the university. Just admit it. You've been caught. And
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remember all those people that were yelling and screaming about
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people's reputations are going to be destroyed. These are the
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kind of people that were trying to defend So what
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does that tell you not only about these people themselves,
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but about the people trying to defend them. Finan Magnani
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also wrote Schuliac letters of their highest recommendation for her
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admission into the years long post doctoral program, which prepares
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dentists to work an independent general dentistry practice. Shuliac applied
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in twenty twenty three, four years after Epstein killed himself
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allegedly in federal prison while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges.
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I can state, as an educator and program director, I
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myself would have taken her into my program with no
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reservations or hesitation, Fine wrote in his letter of recommendation
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obtained by Spectator. I truly believe if you admit doctor
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Shuliac into your program, it'll be a wonderful benefit to
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both her and your institution. Shuliac graduated from the program
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in twenty twenty five, and listen, if Shuliac was qualified,
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no big deal. I don't have a bone to pick
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with Shuliac. I don't hate her. But the fact that
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Jeffrey Epstein was able to move the gears once again
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is just another tell and it gives you a little
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bit of a glimpse into the kind of power that
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this dude will did. The university wrote in its Wednesday
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statement that an internal investigation found Shuliac did meet the
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qualification for admission to the twenty twenty three post graduate program,
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but that separate concerns were raised about Fine's involvement in
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her application given a role as a senior administrator. The
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university declined to provide additional comment beyond that statement. And look,
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these institutions, they're an iron wall, and these colleges will
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do whatever they can to save themselves from embarrassment. How
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many times have we seen it? How many times have
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we seen things get covered up that certainly should not
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have been covered up. So it's not like Colombia's alone here.
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This is part and parcel on all these campuses. Spectators
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spoke to two College of Dental Medicine affiliates who felt
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that because Fine remains director of the Faculty Practice, the
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university's response has fallen short of what they believe the
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situation warrants. I agree with that he should be gone
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one hundred percent on, not demoted, not leaving, you know,
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some senior position. He should be gone. Why anyone at
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the university would want to be associated with them, I
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don't know. Both express discontent that doctor Letty Moss Salentin
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Shuliac's mentor who was a vice dean when Magnonnie creditor
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with doing the most to help Shuliac get in and
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finish up dental School also remains in our faculty position
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just like usual. What they want to do is just
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enough to shut you up, not really fix anything, not
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change anything, not hold anybody accountable, but shut you up.
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And unfortunately that's always been the goal. One College of
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Dental Medicine affiliate told Spectator on Friday that because both
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Fine and mas Salentine remain senior faculty members, they interact
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with students and junior faculty on a daily basis. The
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second affiliate told Spectator on Saturday that the leadership changes
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at the school have been insufficient, adding that Fine June
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thirtieth departure date the end of the Medical Center's academic year,
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look more like a scheduled administrative transition than a response
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to the findings against them all by design. Look, it's
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not just the government that's trying to control a blastrat.
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It's everybody. Everybody that's been caught up in this, and
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it's crazy that they all try to do the same
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exact thing. It's always the same exact response. Oh, we're
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having an internal investigation, and then inevitably they get to
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a point where they're like, Okay, we can't deny this anymore.
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This happened and we have to just admit it. And
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I guess Columbia University just hasn't gotten to that point yet,
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but it's coming. Doctor George Jenkins will serve as the
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new Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs, and doctor Philip
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Kang will serve as interim Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Affairs.
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Effect of June thirtieth, the university announced. Jenkins, the current
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Assistant Dean for the Office of Access, Equity and Inclusion,
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has been at Columbia since two thousand and six, and Kang,
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formerly the program director of Paradontics, has been there since
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two thousand and seven. Kang declined a request for comment
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from Spectator, and Jenkins did not respond to a request
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for comment from Spectator. And they're not going to the
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university respond And I'm sure the university has told them,
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keep your mouth shut. We got this, we'll take care
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of it. Just do your job. Fine's demotion comes months
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after the university announced in February that it would remove
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Magnonnie from his admissions and volunteer leadership role, disaffiliate from
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his private practice and terminate his voluntary faculty appointment agreement,
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and that Moss Salentine would step down from her administrative roles.
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The February statement also acknowledged several affiliates involved in Chulac's
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admission who had already left the College of Dental Medicine.
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Fine did not respond to Spectator's request for comment. At
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an April tenth University Senate plenary, in response to questioning
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on Fine's involvement with Epstein, Acting university President Claire Shipman
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CC class of eighty six SIPA, class of ninety six,
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said I don't know the answer to that, but I'll
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find out. She added, We're investigating everything that comes up.
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The university announced its conclusion to that investigation in its
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Wednesday statement. An internal investigation into the matter did not
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reveal an improper admission, the university wrote, of course it didn't.
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Nothing happened here, nothing was improper. Epstein followed the chain
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of command. But it sure looks like the evidence points
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somewhere else. So my guess is that Columbia is going
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to try this narrative, and when this narrative fails, they'll
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just admit that they were in the wrong, just like
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Harvard did, and just like multiple other institutions have done
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throughout the past. So, like usual, we'll keep an eye
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on it, and when we got some more to add,
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we'll get it added to the catalog. All the information
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that goes with this episode can be found in the
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description box.