Highly recognized theoretical physicist at UNC jailed in Argentina for smuggling cocaine
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Anne Blythe, Raleigh News & Observer, August 15, 2017 Paul Frampton, the 72-year-old who said he was unwittingly coaxed into carrying luggage containing cocaine, has been awarded more than $263,000 for back pay and benefits from UNC after administrators tried to cut him off from compensation shortly after his arrest.
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Maxine Swann, NY Times Magazine, March 8, 2013 In November 2011, Paul Frampton, a theoretical particle physicist, met Denise Milani, a Czech bikini model, on the online dating site Mate1.com.... Frampton had been very lonely since his divorce three years earlier; now it seemed those days were over....How Frampton, who holds an endowed chair at the University of North Carolina and has been an adviser to the Department of Energy, ended up in Devoto appears at first to be a classic tale: a brilliant man of science gets into trouble as soon as he tries to navigate the real world.
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Anne Blythe, Raleigh News & Observer, June 16, 2015 The N.C. Court of Appeals issued a ruling on Tuesday stating that UNC-Chapel Hill violated its own policies when administrators placed Frampton on unpaid leave while he awaited trial on drug-trafficking charges in a prison in Argentina.
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Tom Worden, Daily Mail UK, Feb 25, 2015 Professor Paul Frampton sentenced to four years for cocaine smuggling Watched inmate brutally murdered as he stood just feet away Renowned physicist duped after falling for bikini model online Voluptuous 32-year-old was in fact member of South American mafia Model had no idea she was being used as honeytrap in trafficking scam Sacked academic wants job so he can return to the classroom He has written 'Tricked! The Story of an Internet Scam' about horrific ordeal