Decision comes after disclosure of university letter concluding Hoau-Yan Wang did not engage in misconduct

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Excusing record-keeping “misconduct” flagged in earlier investigative report, City University of New York concluded in letter that image doctoring by Hoau-Yan Wang was not proved