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Bronx native Kraig Lewis in set to graduate with a Masters in Business and get his son out of the rough streets of his NYC neighborhood. Instead, his life is turned upside down when he’s caught in the city’s largest gang bust in history. Now, he has to find a new path. LOCATION: JAMAIL LECTURE HALL, PULITZER HALL, 2950 BROADWAY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, NEW YORK.. TO HOST A SCREENING PLEASE EMAIL [email protected]. Indonesian first-time filmmaker Stephanie Tangkilisan’s docu*entary 22 Months is an intimate portrait of a young man swept up in New An excellent student halfway in and out of gang life in the Bronx, Kraig Lewis was in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was caught in a bust conducted by 700 FBI, NYPD and ICE officials and prosecuted by Preet Bharara. Lewis, along with 119 others, were prosecuted under a law originally designed to target mobs but are now increasingly used against 22 Months explores not only race, the effects of incarceration on Lewis’s life and family after jail, but also how this little-known conspiracy law called the RICO Act can derail promising futures, wrecking families and communities.