Harvard agrees to pay US$53mil after morgue manager sold body parts
Cedric Lodge, who managed the morgue at Harvard Medical School, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to trafficking stolen remains.
Harvard University has reached a $53 million settlement after its former morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, was found guilty of stealing and selling donated human remains for scientific research. The settlement will be divided between two class action funds. Lodge, who managed the morgue at Harvard Medical School before being fired in 2023, pleaded guilty to trafficking stolen remains and was sentenced to eight years in prison in December.
His wife, Denise, received a one-year sentence. The settlement plan was approved by a Boston state court judge on Tuesday. Harvard plans to distribute the funds over several months and will establish an annual scholarship in honor of all anatomical donors starting in the 2027-2028 academic year. The school also pledged to condemn Lodge's criminal acts in a statement to the claimant families and detail improvements to the organ donation program.
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