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Let's take a break from FISA, and other politics.
Here's a story for you about one of America's ghouls in our society.
Back in March of this year, Michael Mastromarino ( the dentist ) pleaded guilty to several charges including body stealing, reckless endangerment and enterprise corruption.
The 44 year old was the leader of a $4.6 million crime ring which stole body parts from funeral homes and sold them to organ transplant entities.
This is from a dentist who was once an oral surgeon who once owned a company named Biomedical Tissue Services which supplied tissue to around 10,000 people all around the country.
What an idiot! Does a dentist not make more than enough cash to live a pretty good lifestyle without having to be a criminal at the same time? I know an oral surgeon or two and let me tell you that they aren't exactly broke. GREED! Gotta love it!
Prosecutors said that as part of the scheme, a team of so-called "cutters" removed bone, skin and tendons in an unsanitary embalming room.
The bodies were dissected without permission and were not medically screened.
These were then sold to doctors who then used them for dental implants, knee and hip replacements and other transplant procedures.
"I am truly sorry for the pain I have caused," Mastromarino said as he faced relatives of the dead who were in court to deliver statements. "May God have mercy on my soul.""He fully recognised the gravity of what he has done," Mario Gallucci, Mastromarino's lawyer said outside the court. "He cut some corner and that is why he is here today."
"His sick, disgusting and appalling actions all in the name of greed, have devastated my family to the point where we can never recover," Dayna Ryan told the court.
Ryan, 44, contracted Hepatitus B after receiving one of the stolen body parts during an operation on her lower spine.
Dayna Ryan contracted Hepatitus B from
a stolen body part [GETTY]
Three others who worked with Mastromarino have also been charged, as were a number of funeral home directors.
Chris Aldorasi, one of the "cutters", was found guilty of enterprise corruption and other criminal counts earlier in June; he was sentenced to between nine and 27 years in jail.
The plundered bodies included that of the veteran British journalist Alistair Cooke, author of the BBC's long-running Letter from America; he died in 2004, aged 95, in New York.
During Aldorasi's trial, Cooke's daughter testified that she had never spoken to BTS about them harvesting her father's body.
"Definitely not," said Susan Cooke-Kitteridge, when sked if she had given permission for the procedure. "My father would have been against that."
Another "cutter", Lee Cruceta, pleaded guilty and testified against Aldorasi and now faces up to 20 years in prison.
A fourth co-defendent is still awaiting trial.
This piece of crap should be executed instead of given a prison sentence after infecting other people with diseased body parts!
2 Comments:
As one of his victims, I can only say I hope he burns in hell. I have watched the videos of the families of those he cut up and parted out and their torment is heartwrenching. They feel immense guilt at not being able to see that their loved ones did indeed rest in peace.
I received some of this "tainted" bone in a surgery and my life has been devastated. Drs. and dentists double-glove when working on me and I can no longer donate blood or be a donor when I die. I can't kiss my little nieces or take a sip of their pop.
The scary part is the FDA did not make it mandatory for Drs. to notify their patients that they received this bone or tissue and may be at risk for disease. Between 14,000 and 25,000 pieces of this untested tissue was implanted. Less than 1000 have filed suit leaving me to believe that thousands do not know. Also, we were only given one-time testing for Hep B and C, HIV, and Syphillis. These 1000 donors died from scores of other things including cancer leaving us with uncertain futures.
He should get the same life sentence he administered to all of his victims.
P.S. He lost his dental license when he was found passed out on the floor with a needle stuck in his arm after excusing himself from a surgery and leaving a patient on the table.
That is why he turned to graverobbing.
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