(Well, OK. Maybe it is a little creepy.)

Authorities last month accused the 54-year-old of stealing $357,000 worth of regenerative medicine products from Mercy Philadelphia Hospital.

Dudek had access to the items, and the hospital, because he worked for Organogenesis, the Massachusetts-based company that manufactures the products.

Media accounts repeatedly described the products as skin grafts, which naturally triggered a host of uneasy questions.

*Were the supposed grafts being resold on a medical black market?

*Had other area hospitals been robbed as well?

*Was Dudek involved in some sort of larger, sinister scheme?

The answer to all three is a resounding "no," said Dudek's attorney, Eugene Tinari.

"Look, this is not anything that would generate headlines like something out of a horror movie," he said.

"I'm not admitting anything, but whatever happened - be it criminal, be it negligence, be it an employer-employee misunderstanding - there was not some type of nefarious [sale] of these items on a black market.

Excerpt from:
A Skin-tilating tale?

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