September 16, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACTS:
Steven Kurtz: (716) 812-2968
Lucia Sommer, CAE Defense Fund: (716) 359-3061
Edmund Cardoni, CAE Defense Fund: (716) 854-1694
David Lerner, Center for Constitutional Rights: (212) 260-5000
Jennifer Carnig, New York Civil Liberties Union: (212) 607-3363

CAE Defense Fund donated to Center for Constitutional Rights & New York Civil

As reported by the Associated Press, Professor Steve Kurtz of the Critical Art Ensemble was cleared yesterday of all charges related to the biological material found in his Buffalo, NY home four years ago. The indictment of mail and wire fraud in the improper obtaining of these specimens for his art work, which is critical of U.S. government agricultural policies, was dismissed in federal district court as "insufficient on its face."