United States v. John Buettner-Janusch

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

This case chronicles the tragic culmination of the career of Dr. John Buettner-Janusch, one of the world’s leading authorities on physical anthropology. The Government established that Dr. Buettner-Janusch, in violation of both the criminal law and his duty to the academic community, manufactured illegal drugs in his laboratory at New York University (“NYU”). Buettner-Janusch’s illicit activities were first brought to light by the private investigative work of his undergraduate research assistant, Richard Macris, and a fellow Professor of Anthropology, Dr.…