Plea Deal in US Body Parts Case

[NashVegas]

Source: BBC

The head of a US plot to illegally remove body parts from corpses and sell them for transplant is to admit guilt in a plea bargain, his lawyer has said.

Michael Mastromarino, 44, allegedly earned millions from the plot and is expected to face a minimum of 18 years in prison.

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Thousands of people received body part transplants supplied by Mr Mastromarino's Biomedical Tissue Services and his plea bargain is expected to include co-operation on providing information on who else dealt in the parts.

The parts were taken without permission from more than 1,000 corpses awaiting cremation in New York state and may have exposed people to infection, prosecutors say.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7191835.stm

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These are the people who illegally removed and sold Alistair Cooke's bones for $11k.

[Fresh_Start]

1. someone should sell Mastromarino's body parts

preferably before he dies, like they harvest parts from the poor in Asia after all why do you need two kidneys

[sam sarrha]

2. i'd sell a kidney for fair trade price... you bet, would keep my family off the street

[midnight]

3. The corporate powers know no boundaries, or ethics that would

keep them from selling your body parts. Right now they are working with microsoft to monitor your body for efficient work practices in the work place. Machines will regulate us. Corporations will harvest us. Think real hard who you want. Someone who thinks being nice to these guys will get them to stop acting like the thieving criminals they are or a president who knows they need to be stopped-period. Please don't let the physical appearance or likability issue being your deciding reason.

[NashVegas]

4. It's Frightening. WE Are the Resources, Now

That thought first dawned on me last year when AT & T went complaining to the WTO or whomever when Chavez kicked their asses out of VZ. AT&T thought they had a right to market there, a right to get their grubby little hands in VZ peoples' bank accounts, and Hugo was interfering with that right.

At least the aliens in Spielberg's War of the Worlds were a different species, from a different planet.

[Quakerfriend]

5. This has been going on for YEARS. There is a very lucrative

market out there. You must read Body Brokers by Mary Cheney (no relation to Dick).

Large Corps that make medical devices sponsor 'high end' med conferences for MDs.

A company making surgical tools used in Opthalmic surgery, for ex, has 'parts'delivered to the site so that the docs can practice in a hands-on environment using their implements. Where do you suppose the parts come from? Many times they are illegally gotten from body brokers who get them from funeral homes or crematories.

[NashVegas]

6. Ickles

I think I'll pass on that one, thanks.

[flashl]

7. Better during 'war'

From an article published December 18, 2004 in the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan. The story also appeared in papers in Syria and Iran. Translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

* * *Secret European military intelligence reports indicate the transformation of the American humanitarian mission in Iraq into a profitable trade through the practice of American physicians extracting human organs from the dead and wounded. A secret team of American physicians follows the troops during their attacks on Iraqi armed men to ensure quick operations.

The reports confirm the finding of dozens of mutilated cadavers, some without heads. The American military command could not explain the missing parts. The reports also confirm that the bodies are burned to conceal the crime of organ extraction. The reports further indicate that American medical teams have recruited some Iraqis to guide them to dead and critically injured individuals. These teams offer $40 for every usable kidney and $25 for an eye.

The reports also indicate that a number of those killed in Abu Ghraib and other prisons had organs extracted. Following their mutilation, the bodies were discarded far from the prisons to conceal the facts. The American forces prevented the media by force from getting near the scenes. But the relatives of the Iraqis are aware of the facts. The Europeans have noticed the absence of organs from the cadavers that were dealt with by the Americans and have reported to their commanders, who instructed them to maintain silence and to avoid discussion of the subject due to its gravity.

Harpers

[NashVegas]

8. That One Strains A Bit For Moi

Not unlike Iraqis taking babies out of incubators ...