UB art professor Steven Kurtz cleared of federal charges
Use of bacteria in work led to terrorism probe
By Michael Beebe and Dan Herbeck - News Staff Reporters
Updated: 04/22/08 9:08 AM
For the first time in four years, since his wife died of heart failure in their Allentown home, setting off a government investigation into whether he was a terrorist because of the bacteria he kept for his artwork, Steven J. Kurtz is finally free of federal charges.
Kurtz, 49, the University at Buffalo art professor and co-founder of the Critical Art Ensemble, saw a federal judge dismiss the government charges Monday as “insufficient on its face.”
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