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Bill Ackman is not letting up on the Claudine Gay plagiarism allegations

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• Bill Ackman isn't done with Harvard and Claudine Gay just yet.
• Ackman took to X on New Year's Day to rip his alma mater's handling of Gay's plagiarism allegations.
• "This is a scandal and a stain on the reputation of Harvard," Ackman wrote.

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It may be 2024, but one thing hasn't changed: Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is still committed to his pressure campaign on Harvard to fire its president, Claudine Gay.

Ackman published several posts on X on Monday where he criticized Harvard's handling of allegations that Gay plagiarized work.

Ackman in his New Year's Day posts further accused the board of attempting to "quash a legitimate whistleblower inquiry into President Gay's work by threatening the media with litigation if they published the whistleblower's allegations."

We now know that the @Harvard Corporation Board sought to quash a legitimate whistleblower inquiry into President Gay’s work by threatening the media with litigation if they published the whistleblower’s allegations, which the Board said were demonstrably false, but in fact were… https://t.co/ThBYVpB9KR

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 2, 2024

Ackman, citing a whistleblower's report to The Washington Free Beacon, accused Harvard of violating its own procedures and policies when handling Gay's case.

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