Leader of body parts scheme makes plea

Source: Yahoo.com

NEW YORK - The mastermind of a scheme to plunder corpses from funeral homes and sell them for millions of dollars pleaded guilty Tuesday in a deal that could send him to prison for the next five decades.

Michael Mastromarino, a 44-year-old former oral surgeon, confessed to the judge that he carried out the scheme from 2001 to 2005. He will face between 18 years and 54 years and will have to forfeit $4.68 million.

He faced a long list of charges, including enterprise corruption, body stealing, grand larceny and forgery.

The plea comes more than two years after the gruesome scandal broke, with evidence that corpses were being hacked up without permission or proper screening for diseases and sold for dental implants, knee and hip replacements and other procedures around the country. The looted bodies included that of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke.


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this is the america we live in...i know some will say dead is dead and it ultimately does not matter what happens to the bodies, but this is fuckin' depraved....

And should be. Murder has not time limit.

We have made sociopathy fashionable, something to aspire to, through our popular forms of media and entertainment. Get strapped, get rich, blow away those who are obstacles, destroy lives...show me the money. On the street or in the boardroom or even the Oval Office, sociopathy is The New Black. It's what's for dinner.

Look around you: That boss, that neighbor, that cube neighbor, that cop, the kid down the street...any person who has "Teh Crazy" that you can see welling up behind their irises like an XFiles episode. That's another one.

"Every man for himself"

It's called "Dexter". I thought my god, or goddess or anything else up there, how low can they sink?

and people are completely unapologetic about it

Lifecell Corp (LIFC) and Tutogen Medical Inc (TTG)

He wasn't the ONLY ONE profiting.

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to different prisons. ;-)