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New Jersey Oral Surgeon Runs Body Parts Business
This clown was a dentist, turned drug addict, turned body snatcher.
Mastromarino surrendered his dental license in 2001, and went into
rehab but branched off into the tissue recovery business on discharge.
He stole body parts from corpses. Mickey Mastromarino, ran a
$4.6 million operation that stole body parts from funeral homes in New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The ring dismembered more than
1,000 cadavers in unsanitary conditions, and sold parts to doctors who
transplanted them into patients.
Mastromarino has pleaded guilty to body stealing, reckless
endangerment and enterprise corruption. He faces 18 to 54 years in
prison and was due to be sentenced on June 27.
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Actual body Snatchers
Mastromarino and two of his associates (Feldman and Brown) were
charged in 2006 with enterprise corruption, body stealing, opening
graves, unlawful dissection and forgery.
Authorities released photos of exhumed corpses that were boned below
the waist. They said the defendants had made a crude attempt to cover
their tracks by sewing PVC pipe back into the bodies in time for
open-casket wakes.
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Paid Fellow Zionists
The former dentist went to funeral homes and extracted bone,
tendons and skin from corpses without the consent of relatives.
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This Was A Big Business
Later his Biomedical Tissue Services (BTS) shipped coolers full of
tissue to hospitals for surgeries. About 10,000 people received tissue
supplied by BTS, it has been estimated.
A dead body can be worth tens of thousands of dollars when it is
dissected for parts
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The Body Parts Were Used In Surgery
"The disgust factor is enormous," said Stephanie Berardini, 36, who
underwent periodontal surgery throughout her mouth using tissue and
bone implants from Mastromarino's cadavers.
As part of the scheme, a team of so-called cutters removed bones, skin
and tendons in an unsanitary embalming room, prosecutors said. One
corpse can generate anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000 – the body is
absolutely a commodity.
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