Source: New York Post
US prosecutors moved on Tuesday to drop criminal charges against a Russian-born scientist at Harvard University accused of smuggling frog embryos into the United States after she argued the Trump administration had singled her out for prosecution. Federal prosecutors in Boston said in a court filing they were dismissing the charges against Kseniia Petrova after a federal judge cleared the way for her to obtain evidence supporting her claim that she was being vindictively prosecuted. Prosecutors in the filing said that while they viewed those claims as “meritless,” continuing to prosecute the case after the judge’s order “would divert significant time and attention from more substantial federal interests.
