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James Fine, Karyna Shuliak, and Columbia Dental’s Epstein Problem (6/2/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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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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