By Rusty Brooks
Three CUNY professors implicated two years ago in a scandal involving an on-campus drug den and “pimping” out students are still on the public payroll at John Jay College of Criminal Justice — and have even received raises to their six-figure salaries, The NY Post reported.
In 2018, The NY Post broke this huge scandal.
NY Post reported in 2018 : In exclusive, hours-long interviews with The Post, the accusers shared their formal complaints and described how the charismatic CUNY profs targeted them as vulnerable undergraduates and lured them into their pot-smoking circle of acolytes, only to sexually assault them and attempt to have them sexually service professors at other colleges — and worse.
Karol Mason, the John Jay president, said in May 2019 that she would move to ax the professors — Ric Curtis, Anthony Marcus and Barry Spunt.
“There is absolutely no place for sexual harassment or misconduct at John Jay,” Mason wrote in a letter to the campus community after the Manhattan college concluded an internal investigation.
But state records show the trio are still being paid and that their base salaries have increased 4 percent since allegations against them were first lodged in May 2018, NY Post investigation discovered
Curtis makes $133,676; Anthony Marcus is pulling down $121,852; and Barry Spunt is raking in $111,000, according to the records.
Naomi Haber, a one time student at John Jay , accused, Anthony Marcus, the former chair of the anthropology department, violently raped her when she was a 21-year-old sophomore after a boozy night out at an academic conference in Washington, D.C. in 2015.
“He put his hands around my throat, choked me with both hands and forced himself inside me without warning,” she wrote in a document outlining her allegations that she gave to investigators hired by the public college. “The only thing I could do was to go numb and detach myself from my body.”
Ric Curtis, respected anthropology professor who has been at the school 30 years, and was former chair of the sociology, anthropology, and law and police science departments, was the ringleader, according to the 2018 Post report.
Curtis, who has worked at John Jay since the 1990s, held court in “the swamp,” a secluded seventh-floor area of an annex building on 54th Street, according to Haber’s complaint. As of press, the lawyers for the accused and John Jay college have not responded to media inquiries


