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Post by Mistress Rell on Oct 18, 2006 16:06:40 GMT -5
NEW YORK (AP) - Seven funeral home directors linked to a scheme to plunder corpses and sell the body parts for transplants have secretly pleaded guilty to undisclosed charges, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes also announced that a grand jury had voted to bring a new indictment in the case that adds allegations involving funeral homes in New York City and Rochester, N.Y.. "It is clear that many more funeral home directors were involved in this enterprise," Hynes said. The seven unidentified directors all agreed to co-operate in an ongoing investigation into what investigators describe as an enterprise to steal bone and tissue from cadavers and sell the material to biomedical supply companies for profit, Hynes said. Full Story~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I think I saw this on an episode of 'Bones' a few months back. In all honesty, I can understand how lucrativethis must of been for them. People are willing pay just about anything to extend their life. I don't understand why more people don't donate their organs. It's not like they're going to need them when their dead!
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Post by Shooshoo on Oct 18, 2006 16:18:30 GMT -5
Grief what a thing to have happen, talk about grizly...as if the death of a loved one isn't bad enough to then learn from the police that your loved ones remains were defiled like this must be a blow the bereaved do not need...urgh! I hope the people concerned get hefty sentences.
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Post by Aaron on Oct 19, 2006 4:22:04 GMT -5
I don't know there dead. Sounds crule and totally not pc but there dead and not going to need them. I think alot ofp eople won't or don't do cremation or organ donation because maybe they feel like they need it in the after life. I don't really thinks os but okay.
Yeah, this is probably VERY lucrative. And, I doubt they get along time in prison.
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Post by Mistress Rell on Oct 19, 2006 7:35:01 GMT -5
They're co-operating fully with the FBI, so they may get a slap on the wrist, pay restitution and have their licence revoked. But I"m just guessing.
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