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University and FAS spokesmen declined to comment on Shleifer??s request and on whether Shleifer has been internally disciplined, saying that the case is ongoing. Shleifer did not return repeated requests for comment...
...Summers—who stayed at Shleifer??s home when he interviewed at Harvard for the presidency in 2000, and has spent summers with the economist in Cape Cod—has said in the past he was “concerned to make sure” that Shleifer stay at Harvard...
Harvard and Shleifer faced separate ultimate judgments, but as a practical matter, their fates were intertwined. Lawyers for both the University and the professor worked closely since the start of the lawsuit, and Harvard participated in Shleifer??s defense at a brief trial this December that resolved a technical issue in the case...
...while Harvard’s own liability has not been at issue since the summary judgement last June, the University’s lawyers have nonetheless participated in Shleifer??s defense, apparently recognizing that their fates in the case are intertwined...
...book also suffers by association with Shleifer??s now infamous activities as an advisor to former President Boris Yeltsin for the Harvard Initiative for International Development (HIID). Shleifer allegedly invested indirectly in Russian companies affected by the policies he proposed, and Shleifer has since been sued by the U.S. government. He never makes more than oblique references to his work in Russia after the 1997 currency crisis, a point that will surely disappoint readers looking for the defendant’s perspective in the ongoing scandal...