From the Harvard Crimson: Harvard agreed [last] Monday to a $53 million settlement to resolve civil lawsuits accusing the school of negligence in its handling of donated human remains. The lawsuits stem from the conduct of Cedric Lodge, a former HMS morgue manager who was sentenced to eight years in prison in December for unlawfully transporting stolen human remains. Federal prosecutors said that between 2018 and August 2022, Lodge took organs, brains, faces, and other body parts from donated cadavers after they had been used for teaching and research but before they could be disposed of. He brought the remains to his New Hampshire home and sold them to buyers in several states, including Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Six co-conspirators who purchased remains from Lodge have since pleaded guilty and been sentenced.
As part of the settlement, HMS will make a statement to claimant families via a live webinar affirming that Lodge’s conduct was “morally reprehensible” and inconsistent with Harvard’s standards, along with a summary of changes made to the Anatomical Gift Program...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/8/19/hms-morgue-settlement/.
Old timers will remember that UCLA had its own body parts scandal back in the day:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-may-15-me-willedbody15-story.html.
And there was a still earlier scandal at UCLA regarding disposal of bodies which is referenced in this article:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-26-me-body26-story.html.
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