Selling Body Parts
More information is coming out of Philadelphia about the three Philadelphia funeral directors who led a scheme in which more than 1,000 cadavers were dismembered in unsanitary conditions and the parts sold and implanted them in patients.
Some may wonder if this is a lucrative business. We hear about the black market in other less developed countries, but the grand jury's report here alleges the men made $3.8 million from the sale of body parts. The scheme involved Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey between February 2004 and September 2005.
The accused are Louis Garzone, his brother Gerald Garzone and James McCafferty who ran a funeral and crematory business and who then allowed Michael Mastromarino and his “cutters” to remove body parts such as bones, skin and tendons in an unsanitary embalming room.
There is still question about whether any diseases were transmitted through the tissue.
The men did not admit wrongdoing but have relinquished their licenses.
The grand jury report says some bodies at the funeral homes often sat for days without refrigeration before the tissue was harvested.
No word on the trial date or potential punishment and there are already plans to consider some measures like banning funeral homes from performing tissue recovery, making the theft of body parts a felony crime and requiring all tissue agencies to be licensed by the state.
Some may wonder if this is a lucrative business. We hear about the black market in other less developed countries, but the grand jury's report here alleges the men made $3.8 million from the sale of body parts. The scheme involved Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey between February 2004 and September 2005.
The accused are Louis Garzone, his brother Gerald Garzone and James McCafferty who ran a funeral and crematory business and who then allowed Michael Mastromarino and his “cutters” to remove body parts such as bones, skin and tendons in an unsanitary embalming room.
There is still question about whether any diseases were transmitted through the tissue.
The men did not admit wrongdoing but have relinquished their licenses.
The grand jury report says some bodies at the funeral homes often sat for days without refrigeration before the tissue was harvested.
No word on the trial date or potential punishment and there are already plans to consider some measures like banning funeral homes from performing tissue recovery, making the theft of body parts a felony crime and requiring all tissue agencies to be licensed by the state.
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