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06-12-2006, 08:09 AM
Scandal Rocks Human Tissue Industry (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FLESH_AND_BONE_II_ABRIDGED...)
By TOM HAYS
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- As a seasoned "cutter," Lee Cruceta thought he knew when it was safe to harvest human tissue from the dead for transplants to the living - and when it wasn't.
This time, it wasn't.
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<!-- BEGIN MEDIA BOX NUMBER 1 -->This is, again, Cruceta's account. He, like Mastromarino, faces criminal charges in a scandal so grotesque that it reads like a real-life sequel to "Frankenstein."
It was Mastromarino who built a business that took from the dead and gave to the living. There are many legitimate businesses that do this, but authorities say Mastromarino's company was not one of them.
Authorities say Biomedical Tissue Services secretly carved up hundreds of cadavers - among them, that of the British-born host of "Masterpiece Theatre," Alistair Cooke - without the families of the deceased knowing about it. They then peddled the pieces on the lucrative non-organ body parts market.
By TOM HAYS
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- As a seasoned "cutter," Lee Cruceta thought he knew when it was safe to harvest human tissue from the dead for transplants to the living - and when it wasn't.
This time, it wasn't.
[ snip , snip ]
<!-- BEGIN MEDIA BOX NUMBER 1 -->This is, again, Cruceta's account. He, like Mastromarino, faces criminal charges in a scandal so grotesque that it reads like a real-life sequel to "Frankenstein."
It was Mastromarino who built a business that took from the dead and gave to the living. There are many legitimate businesses that do this, but authorities say Mastromarino's company was not one of them.
Authorities say Biomedical Tissue Services secretly carved up hundreds of cadavers - among them, that of the British-born host of "Masterpiece Theatre," Alistair Cooke - without the families of the deceased knowing about it. They then peddled the pieces on the lucrative non-organ body parts market.