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Never Student at Brooklyn College

By PAUL CROWELL

a| Lawrence E. (Larry) Pearlstein,

one of the five Brooklyn College
basketball players “expelled” last
month for taking bribes to “throw”
a game, was never a student at the
institution, never attended a single
class and never did anything more
academic than carry an armful of
textbooks about the campus and
to and from his home.

The exposure of Brooklyn Col-
1 lege’s “student” athlete was made
yesterday by Mayor La Guardia in
3\his weekly radio broadcast from
‘City Hall and details were supplied
in a report submitted to the Mayor
by Investigation
Edgar Bromberger. .
_ Pearlstein, who is 20 years» old
-|and lives at 422-A New York Ave-

Commissioner:

nue, Brooklyn, was summoned to
the office of Assistant District At-
torney Charles N. Cohen soon
after the Mayor’s broadcast. Mr.
Cohen said that the youth had told
substantially the same story as
that related by him to Commis-
sioner Bromberger.

According to Mr. Cohen, Pearl-
stein said that he got an algebra
textbook and one on economics
from the college library and car-
ried them with him almost con-
stantly, but had never used either
of them.

“I don’t know why they did not
become aware that I was not a
student,” he said, according to Mr.

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