[#item_full_content] Harvey Prager, a former Harvard fellow, abandoned academia in the 1970s to build a multimillion-dollar marijuana smuggling ring that moved tons of Colombian weed to the U.S. Prager and his crew lived large in Key West and the Caribbean, crossing paths with celebrities, before a bust in Maine forced him to go on the run in Europe. After a London bank robbery exposed his identity, Prager turned himself in and proposed funding an AIDS hospice with his drug money instead of going to prison, a deal a federal judge accepted. Today, Prager is a civil rights lawyer in Brooklyn. 
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