DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Elizabeth Silverio has good lawyers. On 20 May 2023, investigative journalist Nuria Piera aired a TV program had revealed that the impressive degrees from different countries she had framed in her office were fake. Yet, the local judiciary has been lenient with the once-touted neuroscientist who had developed a large practice at Knowledge Land (Kogland), serving children with autism in Santo Domingo. The center was shut down.

Silverio was such a good talker that even Congress consulted with her for the drafting of the national autism law.

While the Ministry of Public Health has revoked her permission to continue in the role of director of the center that mainly treated cases of child autism, the judiciary has been lenient and allowed her to remain out of jail. She was sentenced in October 2024 to seven years in jail, but has not served jail time as the case runs through the courts. On 10 October 2025, the Appeals Court of the National District ordered the case to be...