"I prefer to try my cases in court, not in the press," he said.
The director of Information Technology Services at Yale University also declined to comment because a federal investigation is currently in progress.
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Lasaga was master of Saybrook College at Yale until he resigned on November 6, 1998. He is also a professor of geology and geophysics at Yale.
Lasaga earned his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Harvard in 1976. He also served as a lecturer in Harvard's department of Chemistry and Geology from 1976 to 1977.