Disgraced CEO of 'Bodies' Shows Returns
Officials "Shocked" at his Return; CEO Resigned After 20/20 Investigation
'Bodies' Exhibit Controversy
Premier did not announce the March change in management in a press release according to a review of its Web site, but the company's general counsel, Brian Wainger, said Geller left his CEO position because "he decided it was time to retire," and that his resignation was not connected to the questions raised about the human bodies or to Geller's appearance on 20/20.
Neither Geller nor Wainger responded to requests for comment on this story.
The company did release a statement at the time it settled with Cuomo's office. "In the settlement, the Attorney General did not find that the company utilizes the remains of executed prisoners in its exhibition," the company said, adding that it "cannot independently confirm that the individualized organs and body parts at the exhibition were note taken from executed prisoners."
The company said it "must rely on the affirmations of its Chinese supplier" that the specimens do not come from the remains of executed prisoners.
Geller told ABC News 20/20 in February that he was appalled at the allegations that some of the bodies from his Chinese suppliers might be those of executed prisoners. He said his own medical staff had seen no such evidence and that his suppliers have assured him that "these are all legitimate, unclaimed bodies that have gone through Dalian Medical University."
"If these can actually be attributed to even the people that we're doing business with, we would have to do something about that immediately," Geller said.
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