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Ricardo Asch
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Ricardo Hector Asch
In 1995, The Orange County Register broke the story that Asch - then Chief of the University of California, Irvine's Center for Reproductive Health - and his two partners were misusing human embryos, and harvesting and transplanting human eggs without patient consent. Also facing charges of tax fraud stemming from the case, Asch resigned, suspended his practice, sold his home, "UC Fertility Case Doctor Sells Home" Los Angeles Times 24 October 1995. Accessed 23 October 2009 and went to Mexico. Despite assurances by his attorney that he would return to the United States to face prosecution, Acsh has remained in Mexico. He attained dual Mexican/Argentine citizenship in 2001. The Register won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.
Asch - who owned an entertaiment company at the time of the scandal - was one of the producers of the Andre Agassi and Nick Bollettieri intrstuctional tennis video Attack. Answers.com review of Attack Accessed 23 October 2009
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"UC Fertility Case Doctor Sells Home" Los Angeles Times 24 October 1995. Accessed 23 October 2009
Answers.com review of Attack
Pulitzer.org's archive
ricardoaschsupport.com
"In Quest for Miracles, Did Fertility Clinic Go Too Far?" Los Angeles Times 4 June 1995
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