Poul Thorsen Pleads Guilty to $1 Million CDC Autism Grant Fraud

3 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Sep 2

Thorsen pleaded guilty Tuesday to running a wire-fraud scheme that diverted more than $1 million in CDC autism research grants, according to the Justice Department.
DOJ said he siphoned money by submitting fraudulent documents to Danish authorities, Aarhus University and Odense University Hospital, which handled CDC-funded studies in the early 2000s.
The stolen funds were used in part to buy an Atlanta home, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and Audi and Honda vehicles; under the plea deal, he must repay just over $1 million plus interest.
Federal prosecutors will recommend a 27-month prison sentence. Thorsen's misconduct has been cited by vaccine skeptics to attack studies he co-authored, though those papers were not retracted and other large studies have also found no vaccine-autism link.

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