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...sharp rebuke to University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., a federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Ryan and other former government lawyers "acted with reckless disregard for the truth" in the prosecution of John Demjanjuk as the Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible...
...Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Ryan, the former director of the Justice Department's elite Nazi-hunting unit, the Office of Special Investigations, intentionally withheld evidence in the Demjanjuk case and is guilty of prosecutorial misconduct...
Ryan was the director of Office of Special Investigations from 1980 to 1983. During that time, Ryan, who came to work at Harvard in 1985, helped organize the office's prosecution of Demjanjuk, a former Cleveland autoworker...
...Sixth Circuit eventually found Demjanjuk to be Ivan the Terrible, the guard at the Treblinka death camp responsible for exterminating hundreds of thousands of Jews. In 1986 he was extradited to Israel, where he was sentenced to death...
Last January, Ryan--then in the news for his former role as a Justice Department official involved with the prosecution of alleged Nazi war criminal Ivan Demjanjuk--refused to be photographed. So a Crimson photographer was dispatched to Holyoke Center to take a picture of Ryan and he did--just as Ryan emerged from the men's bathroom on the fourth floor...