Scott Brodie, a former researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle, allegedly committed misconduct when doing AIDS research there in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and was banned from working for the university, according to The Seattle Times.

The news emerges only now because the newspaper had to win a court case to get a copy of the 2003 report of the investigation. Brodie, under the name John Doe, reportedly sued the university and the newspaper to prevent release of the report.

Brodie left the university in summer 2003 and is currently employed by drug company Schering-Plough, based in Kenilworth, New Jersey. A spokesman for the company says that it has just learned of the investigation.

According to one of the university investigators, geneticist Denny Liggitt, the report was handed to the National Institutes of Health's Office of Research Integrity.