"Black transplantologist" got a term
A former dentist and owner of a funeral business in New Jersey, Michael Mastromarino, who stole and sold donated organs of more than a thousand corpses, was sentenced on Friday to up to 54 years in prison, local agencies report. According to the decision of the New York court, he will be able to appeal the verdict and be released no earlier than after 18 years, which he will spend in prison.
Earlier, the marauder pleaded guilty and apologized to the relatives of the deceased, whose bodies he used for his business.
In three years, the proceeds of a thriving funeral home from the evisceration of corpses amounted to almost five million dollars. Donor organs with fictitious permits of relatives of the deceased were sent to various medical centers in the USA and Canada.
The funeral company bought corpses in dozens of different morgues of the country at a price of a thousand dollars per body – all of them were personally dissected by a former dentist, extracting and reselling internal organs, bones and tendons, not disdaining dentures.
An underground laboratory where dead bodies were cut into medical "semi-finished products" was uncovered during a routine inspection of the institution, arousing suspicion with its high-tech equipment, not typical for a morgue.
The famous BBC TV presenter Alistair Cook, who died at the age of 95, also became a victim of the "corpse business" of this company. During the investigation, it turned out that his body was also dismembered and sold under the guise of a man 10 years younger.
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