How to Fix a Drug Scandal
2020 · 1 season · 4 episodes · Crime, Documentary
The four-part docuseries revolves around Amherst, Massachusetts, drug lab chemist Sonja Farak who became addicted to the narcotics she was supposed to be testing. In covering her tracks, Farak falsified thousands of results and opened the door to overturning hundreds of wrongful convictions.
Seasons
1 season · 4 episodes- 1
Episode 1
1 Apr 2020 52m
Damning evidence reveals drug lab chemist Sonja Farak's addictions. A scandal erupts, raising questions for the thousands of defendants in her cases.
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Episode 2
1 Apr 2020 1h
Top state lab chemist Annie Dookhan falls from grace over brazen misconduct and unsettling emails with prosecutors. Farak's trial begins.
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Episode 3
1 Apr 2020 51m
Farak's disturbing confessions lay bare a broken system. Dookhan takes the fall in court, but suspicions of a high-level cover-up grow louder.
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Episode 4
1 Apr 2020 48m
The ACLU and dogged defense lawyers fight for justice in the tainted cases as officials and the public absorb the fallout's staggering scale.
Cast
Shannon O'Neill Sonja Farak Scott Allen Self - Journalist, Boston Globe Shawn Musgrave Self - Investigative Reporter Paul Solotaroff Self - Journalist, Rolling Stone
Karl Kenzler Lawyer Jared Olanoff Self - Defense Attorney Annie Dookhan Self - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage) Heather Harris Self - Forensic Drug Chemist Sonja Farak Self - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage) Linda Farak Self - Sonja's MotherReviews 0
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