Though not finding any thing on a 'Tobias Hammel' there was this story ;
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/21/nyregion/ex-choate-student-receives-probation-on-cocaine-charge.html
Though not finding any thing on a 'Tobias Hammel' there was this story which is eerily similar:
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/05/nyregion/14-choate-students-expelled-in-inquiry-into-cocaine-arrest.html
and one of the students' sentencing :
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/21/nyregion/ex-choate-student-receives-probation-on-cocaine-charge.html
Tobias wasn't his name. the character was based on a guy named Derek Oatis. here's an article about him http://nypost.com/2016/03/13/he-went-from-outsider-to-cocaine-kingpin-at-this-elite-prep-school/
shareAs they said above but here's some more interesting tidbits google helped me find.
President Clinton then the Governor of AR interceded on behalf of Catherine Nicole Cowan ho was the girlfriend who was with Derek Oatis when he was caught at Kennedy airport. The real Venezuelan's name was Matt Holmes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/10/05/clinton-interceded-in-ny-drug-case/0b21dd2b-3662-445a-a1f2-cab9fdc4879c/
I dreamt of a roaring river and a woman that was a fish. Dead she drifted, with red tears...
Funny to see this ... I was at CRH with Derek though with a very different crowd. The post-credit scene of my classmates is the only recognizable feature to me.
shareThat credits footage is from the 60 Minutes segment (https://youtu.be/7InvejqUcC8?t=48s) by [the real] Ed Bradley.
@dcpi: As you were there at the time, do you know the student front and center at the 1:07 mark (dark hair, loose tie)? See here: http://i.imgur.com/3RKI9lm.png. I ask because he must be my long-lost twin: looks exactly like me around 1980.
sentenced to just five years’ probation and 5,000 hours of community service.
He's a Lawyer now - LOL
https://nypost.com/2016/03/13/he-went-from-outsider-to-cocaine-kingpin-at-this-elite-prep-school/
When he got his first job out of law school, he disclosed his past to his employers, and — shockingly to Oatis — they didn’t care.
lawyer morality right there