Biomedical Supply House Owners Charged with Selling Body Parts For Transplants
Earlier this year, a biomedical supply house and three others were charged with selling body parts to the tune of millions of dollars. They’d obtain bodies from funeral parlors in New York City, Rochester, Philadelphia and New Jersey and then forge death certificates and organ donor consent forms to sell the organs. Prosecutors said that many of the bodies were too old or sickly to be good candidates for donation so the defendants forged their death certificates to make them seem younger and healthier.
Nicelli was paid up to $1,000 per body to deliver corpses to a secret operating room at his funeral parlor, where Mastromarino would remove body parts, authorities said. Crucetta, a nurse, and Aldorasi allegedly helped Mastromarino.
Mastromarino made up to $7,000 a body by selling the tissue, authorities said, and the corpses were then returned to unsuspecting funeral directors for burial.
This is the kind of stuff you read about in the 1800s – so it’s terrifying to see that it’s happening now.
Source: LiveScience
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