PITTSBURGH, PA. ? Dr. Cyril Wecht, a nationally renowned medical examiner who consulted in the deaths of Elvis Presley and JonBenet Ramsey, was indicted Friday on federal charges of using county employees to campaign for him and handle his private lab work.

The indictment also accuses Wecht of trading unclaimed bodies stored by the county coroners office, which he headed, to a Pittsburgh university in exchange for use of a laboratory there for his private practice.

Wecht, 74, planned to turn himself in later. He immediately resigned from his $105,000-a-year post as Allegheny County’s medical examiner after learning of the indictment.

The 84-count indictment accuses him of using county employees to run private errands and do work for his private practice between 1996 and December 2005.

U.S. Atty. Mary Beth Buchanan declined to estimate how much Wecht – who earned $4.65 million from his private practice from 1997 to 2004 – might have gained from the alleged abuse.