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Probe into Fetty Wap video shoot faults school principal

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2016 file photo, recording artist Fetty Wap performs at the 2016 Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival in Wantagh, N.Y. An investigation into how rapper Fetty Wap was allowed to record a music video that included drug references and a pole dancer in his old New Jersey high school has concluded that the school's principal was solely responsible. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2016 file photo, recording artist Fetty Wap performs at the 2016 Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival in Wantagh, N.Y. An investigation into how rapper Fetty Wap was allowed to record a music video that included drug references and a pole dancer in his old New Jersey high school has concluded that the school's principal was solely responsible. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP, File) FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2016 file photo, recording artist Fetty Wap performs at the 2016 Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival in Wantagh, N.Y. An investigation into how rapper Fetty Wap was allowed to record a music video that included drug references and a pole dancer in his old New Jersey high school has concluded that the school's principal was solely responsible. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP, File)

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) – An investigation into how rapper Fetty Wap was allowed to record a music video that included drug references and a pole dancer in his old New Jersey high school has concluded that the school’s principal was solely responsible and should be disciplined, according to a published report.

Zatiti Moody was put on administrative leave in June after Paterson school officials began looking into the video filmed at Eastside High School.

District officials had a law firm investigate the matter, and NJ.com (http://bit.ly/2bN8jf3 ) obtained a copy of the report through a public records request. The investigation was conducted by John E. Wallace Jr., of the firm Brown & Connery.

The investigation found that Moody didn’t follow all the requirements of the board’s policies and regulations. It recommends that the district’s superintendent impose “appropriate discipline.”

A telephone number for Moody could not be located. His lawyer declined to comment on the report.