Date: November 29, 2011
Author: Jon Cohen
URL: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/11/cfs-researcher-reportedly-surren.html
CFS researcher reportedly surrenders to Nevada police
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Judy Mikovits, an embattled researcher well known for her studies of
chronic fatigue syndrome, turned herself in to police yesterday at the
University of Nevada, Reno, reports a local TV station, KNRV.
According to the news report, her lawyer said Mikovits was "baffled"
by the criminal charges against her, which accuse the scientist of
having possessed laboratory notebooks and other materials stolen from
her former employer there, the Whittemore Peterson Institute for
Neuro-Immune Disease (WPI). The institute is located on the university
campus, and the criminal charges stem from a break-in and theft that
it reported. KNRV said the allegedly stolen material was all returned,
and that Mikovits was taken into custody and then released.
On 18 November, Mikovits was jailed in Ventura County on a felony
charge of being a fugitive from justice. She was released 4 days later
after posting $100,000 bail and promising to return to a Ventura
County court for an extradition hearing on 19 December. In an
Associated Press report, her attorney, Scott Freeman of Reno, says she
maintains her innocence and that he expects the extradition request to
now be dropped.
WPI separately has a civil suit in the courts that accuses Mikovits of
having "misappropriated property." WPI President Annette Whittemore
today issued a statement that said its civil case will continue. "The
damage to the Whittemore Peterson Institute is substantial and recent
news coverage indicating that WPI may dismiss its civil case against
Dr. Judy Mikovits is incorrect," Whittemore's statement said.
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