- Breaking News San Mateo County ninth-graders struggle to stay fit
- Breaking News Food and wine events
- Breaking News Ask Amy: What To Do When the Doctor Isn t in the House
- Breaking News Ed Blonz: Keep your diet normal pre-surgery
US illegal organ-trafficker gets 54 years
0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008
NEW YORK (AFP) — The mastermind of a network caught trafficking organs illegally harvested from some 1,000 bodies including that of veteran BBC journalist Alistair Cooke was sentenced to 54 years in jail Friday.
Former dentist Michael Mastromarino, 44, was sentenced after pleading guilty earlier this year to a conspiracy to steal human tissue.
"In accordance with a March 18 guilty plea, Mastromarino was sentenced today to 18 to 54 years in prison," said District Attorney Charles Hynes.
Mastromarino was "charged with orchestrating a large-scale, criminal enterprise, in which tissues were harvested from people who never consented before they died, to be donors," Hynes said.
"Those tissues were then sold to medical companies for use in surgical...
- Getting to the root of beautiful hair: shiny, silky hair begins with a healthy scalp - includes list of resources and a recipe for an herbal scalp tonic
- Industry Experts Launch Money Management Resources to Help People Overcome Debt and Learn Proper Money Management Practices
- Portfolio forecasting tools: what you need to know
- Made from scratch: When Honda built a plant in Alabama it also built a workforce-using local workers who had no experience in making cars - Recruitment & Hiring
- Why fly solo when an executive assistant can accelerate your CLNC® business?
- Banking technology, technological learning and competition: comparative case studies in Thai banking
- John Seely Brown Inducted Into 2004 Industry Hall of Fame
- A multi-class SVM classifier utilizing binary decision tree