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A chemist who tested more than Advertisement 60,000 drug samples submitted in the cases of about 34,000 defendants over nine years has admitted to faking drug sample Your Money results, according to a police NASDAQ Composite 3,104 +2.95 (+0.095%) report obtained by the Associated S&P 500 1,461 +5.99 (+0.412%) Press. NYSE Composite 8,447 +60.05 (+0.716%)

The revelations about the Sponsored By chemist, Annie Dookhan, who is also accused of having fabricated Ready To Invest? Find A Broker Here » a master's degree in chemistry from the University of MyFox25 Massachusetts, throws Annie Dookhan worked at the Hinton State NFL Fever thousands of criminal cases Laboratory in Boston from 2003 to 2012. into question because of tampered evidence and the fact that she testified in about 150 criminal cases since 2009 while claiming false credentials.

"I screwed up big time," Dookhan said, according to the report by investigators for Attorney General Martha Coakley's office obtained by the AP. "I messed up bad. It's my fault. I don't want the lab to get in trouble."

10 Trends That Are Changing The Face Of The The AP also reports that supervisors at the Boston lab, which was closed by police in August, NFL As We Know It may face federal scrutiny because they did not intervene after lab employees reported concerns The Seahawks Exposed The One Glaring Flaw about Dookhan's work. That Could Doom The Patriots This Season

“I can’t imagine she could have been this corrupt without someone noticing,” Attorney Rosemary NFL POWER RANKINGS Going Into Week Scapicchio, who represents several defendants whose samples Dookhan handled, told the AP. Seven “The investigation needs to go deeper than Annie Dookhan to get to the point of ‘How did she get away with it?’” Most Read The Boston Globe reports that the office of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has identified 1,141 inmates in Massachusetts jails and prisons convicted based on evidence handled Read Commented Recommended by Dookhan, who was also the quality control officer in the lab.

"I intentionally turned a negative sample into a positive a few times," Dookhan said in a signed Here Are The Charts That Should statement she gave police. Get Obama Reelected... 432,024 Views She also admitted to identifying drug samples by looking at them instead of testing The 10 Best College Towns In them, contaminating samples to get more work finished and saying drug evidence was heavier America 375,903 Views than it actually was, according to the AP.

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