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Article: UCLA's willed body program 'earned' $700k.
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- United Press International
- Article date:
- March 9, 2004
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LOS ANGELES, Mar 09, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX)
An official with a California medical school apparently got more than $700,000 for illegally selling cadavers, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
According to invoices viewed by Times reporters, Henry G. Reid of the University of California-Los Angeles sold 496 cadavers for $704,600 from 1998 to 2003 to a man who then sold them to medical research companies.
Reid, 54, is the director of the willed body program at UCLA's medical school. He has been placed on leave and was arrested during the weekend for grand theft.
The invoices were shown to the newspaper by a ...