Former CDC Autism Researcher Thorsen Hired By EU After His Own University Banned Him
By Ulla Danielsen
Copenhagen, August 22, 2011 -- Only one month after the allegedly “vanished” Danish autism researcher Poul Thorsen in 2010 was criticized by Aarhus University in Denmark for financial fraud, he started working full time as a researcher for the European Union.
The project he was – and highly likely still is — involved in has received 330.000 euro in funding from the EU. The project was initiated in Denmark in 2008 following a meeting in which Poul Thorsen and American CDC employee Diana E. Schendel participated.
The project “European Network of Surveillance on Risk Factors for Autism and Cerebral Palsy" (ENSACP) was co-financed by the European Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC).
Given Aarhus University’s remarkable “To whom it may concern” statement of January 22, 2010, the question is now whether managing director Jørgen Jørgensen and Rector Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen from Aarhus University forgot to inform the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barrosso, and the members of the European Commission about the “considerable shortfall” the university discovered in 2009?
A financial deficit in the budget that the university itself associates with Poul Thorsen’s doings as Danish US-CDC-funded autism researcher. One could also ask whether it would have made any difference, if Aarhus University had blown the whistle when Thorsen resigned in March 2009?
Why did the university choose to wait nearly a year to do so? Was it was a deliberate delay or not -- in this way, was sufficient time left for the ENSACP Project Final Technical Meeting to take place?
According to the minutes of this meeting it was here that “PT” or Poul Thorsen reminded all present that he was now working full time o the ENSACP project on February 20, 2010.
Ulla Danielsen lately wrote an article titled "DEFENCE WANTS DANISH HIGH COURT TO DISMISS PROCEEDINGS IN TAX CASE" (March 6, 2012 )
It is about Poul Thorsen's attempt to avoid tax evasion charges see: http://nbjour.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/defence-wants-danish-high-court-to-dismiss-proceedings-in-tax-case/
The result should be knowned today (or so )
Posted by: Fever | March 13, 2012 at 12:28 PM
Benedetta, I don't want to get on anybody's list. I admit it: I'm a chicken. If anyone calls, I'd love to hear what the US Attorney has to say.
Posted by: Theresa O | August 26, 2011 at 12:36 PM
Theresa O;
Did you, as a good citizen, contact them and tell them where Thorsen was?
Posted by: Benedetta | August 26, 2011 at 09:17 AM
I can't help but wonder if those persons "unknown and known" who were also indicted with Thorson in the United States .. are high officials within the world health community?
In my opinion .. hiring Thorson after learning of his untrustworthiness history .. gives Bernie (Ponzi Scheme) Madoff hope he may someday find himself gainfully employed at the World Bank.
Posted by: Bob Moffitt | August 26, 2011 at 07:21 AM
The wheels of Justice grind slowly. I don't think it's uncommon for someone to go to trial more than a year after being indicted. When the defendant is a foreign national, it can only slow things down. (Do we have an extradition treaty with Denmark? How easy is it to get Thorsen to come back? He's probably not dumb enough to fly here, where he would certainly be arrested at the airport.)
According to Justice.gov, this is the contact info for the Thorsen case: For further information please contact Sally Q. Yates, United States Attorney, or Charysse L. Alexander, Executive Assistant United States Attorney, through Patrick Crosby, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Attorney's Office, at (404) 581-6016. The Internet address for the HomePage for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia is www.justice.gov/usao/gan.
Posted by: Theresa O | August 25, 2011 at 09:11 PM
Thank you for keeping us updated on this disgrace. Where stands the Danish tax fraud case against Thorsen? Who is paying his legal fees?
Posted by: Garbo | August 25, 2011 at 05:32 PM
The EU is the perfect place for Thorsen to operate in. Its budget was described by its once chief accountant (whistleblower who only lasted 5 months in the job) Marta Andreasen as "an open till waiting to be robbed". That was back in 2002, I can only think that things have gone downhill since then.
Posted by: GennyGC | August 25, 2011 at 01:35 PM
Europe does not have the money to throw around, or so I read as a heading on the "Time" Magazine.
Posted by: Benedetta | August 25, 2011 at 01:01 PM
The curious bit about Thorsen is how defunct goverments are of any retraction to do with Thorsens studies or even the slightest admission that Thorsen could have had a conflict of interests namely dosh!!
If anyone has any government highlighting this conflict and relating it to the cash I would seriously love to read it.
"Follow the money find the crime" as the Police saying goes. To this end the studies just might be a fantasy(as we all know they are) as some of the illegal dosh has been found.
Like Deer the similarities’ are abundant the spiralling fantasia of Deer’s lie telling implanted as seedlings by Pharma flourished and grew fruit for Pharma defending the Sacred MMR vaccine only achieved through the UK and the one time respectable Murdoch’s - Sunday Times.(Respectable Before Murdoch).
I see today the crimes of Murdoch are going to go across the pond…bring it on our day is coming and Murdoch is sooo toxic dare I say it seems like the tables are turning..shocking below hacking the voicemail of the dead...
Phone hacking: September 11 victims ask US attorney general to widen inquiry to computers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8721549/Phone-hacking-September-11-victims-ask-US-attorney-general-to-widen-inquiry-to-computers.html
Posted by: Angus Files | August 25, 2011 at 11:47 AM
The EU needs to hear from everyone in the community that by hiring Thorsen, that the entire database project will have absolutely no credibility - it will be a giant waste of funds.
One also has to wonder if the FBI is going to arrest him now that he is apparently able to be found.
Posted by: Beth | August 25, 2011 at 11:37 AM
In his book, "The Bureau", William C. Sullivan quotes Charlie Winstead as saying, (P.27),
"When I investigate a man and prove he's a criminal, if he doesn't already work for the government, they'll hire him. If he already has a government job, once they hear he's a crook they'll promote him. The criminals in Congress only feel comfortable with other criminals."
Posted by: john | August 25, 2011 at 11:33 AM
Makes you wonder if these "projects" are fronts for money laundering...Meanwhile back in the States where do the US DOJ's charges on Thorsen stand? Is DOJ's case going anywhere? Where is Thorsen?
So much corruption all around. Criminals like Murdoch, Strauss-Kahn, Thorsen are often protected not prosecuted. We need a Revolution!
Posted by: Sarah | August 25, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Curious to know what has happened to this farcical organisation: no updates on its website since February 2010. I know it was set up by Kathy Sinnott who was well meaning enough, but anyone who witnessed head of project Alvaro Ramirez at the European Parliament last October would have felt like banging their head against a brick wall. More money washed away not finding anything, and pretending there wasn't a problem.
The Brussels parliament, btw, is a nightmarish complex: one great identical hallway after another: a monument to fatuity. I write as someone who was never anti-European but power never looked emptier.
Posted by: John Stone | August 25, 2011 at 10:18 AM