Legacy MattersMichael Mastromarino had a nice little scam going. He harvested hundreds of bodies without permission of the next of kin. He sold the body parts from funeral homes in Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York through his firm, Biomedical Tissue Services, Ltd. to tissue-processing companies.
Many patients throughout the US and Canada have received transplants until one doctor in Colorado had a question about the transplant and called the treating physician according to the New York Daily News. Body parts doc smelled trouble.
Every number for physicians and next of kin turned out to be fake for 28 donor corpses when Dr. Michael Bauer called.
Mastromarino is now under investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney.
The FDA has announced a recall and quarantine of all products sold by Mastromarino's firm with a warning they could be tainted with disease including HIV, hepatitis and viral infections.
Posted by Jill Fallon at November 7, 2005 1:52 PM | Permalink