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Harvard Agrees to $53 Million Settlement in Body Part Theft Scandal

The agreement settles lawsuits filed by relatives of people whose remains, donated for medical research and teaching, were stolen and sold by the former manager of the school’s medical morgue.

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Harvard University has agreed to pay $53 million to settle civil lawsuits over the theft and sale of body parts by a former manager of the medical school’s morgue.
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