A vaccine researcher extradited to the United States from Europe after being a fugitive for more than a decade pleaded guilty to wire fraud on Sept. 1.
Poul Thorsen, 65, from Denmark, admitted to operating a wire fraud scheme that stole more than $1 million in grant money from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was meant to fund research into autism, prosecutors said.
“Poul Thorsen ran a multi-year fraud scheme to cheat the CDC, diverting valuable federal grant money to service his greed and inflated lifestyle,” U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Theodore S. Hertzberg said in a statement. …