Professor’s Expertise on Crime Was No Help in Dodging Charges

A Miami professor who’s an expert on drug trafficking and organized crime was charged by the U.S. of laundering corrupt cash from Venezuela, skimming more than $250,000 for himself.

Bruce Bagley, 73, a professor of international studies at the University of Miami was the co-editor of the 2015 book “Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Violence in the Americas Today” as well as a contributor to various journals on the topic.

But on Monday prosecutors in Manhattan charged Bagley with laundering about $2.5 million into the U.S., money that foreign nationals embezzled and got from bribes and other corruption schemes. ...