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New York body-snatchers

Alan

2005-12-23, 10:59 am

http://news.independent.co.uk/world...ticle334823.ece

Bodysnatcher inquiry begins after Cooke's bones 'stolen'
By David Usborne in New York
Published: 23 December 2005

The family of Alistair Cooke voiced horror yesterday over allegations that
body-snatchers illicitly carved bones from the venerated broadcaster immediately
after his death from cancer almost two years ago and sold them for profit.

Mr Cooke's daughter, Susan Kittredge, said she learned last week that her father
may have been one of the victims of a ghoulish body-parts-for-sale scam that has
been under investigation by the District Attorney's office in Brooklyn for
several months.

So far, investigators believe they have uncovered about 30 cases where bodies
submitted for burial or cremation in New York were illicitly plundered in an
illegal trade that could be worth billions of dollars. The parts were allegedly
sold to companies that recycle human tissue for use in patients.

As the investigation progresses, investigators have already disinterred three
bodies - bones were missing from each of them - and may eventually dig up all 30
for examination. His bones, police believe, netted the suspects about £4,000.

Mr Cooke was an icon of journalism and broadcasting when he died from lung
cancer on 20 March 2004. He was best known in Britain for his Letter From
America dispatches for the BBC. In the US, he presented Masterpiece Theater, a
prime-time slot of mostly British dramas on public television, for more than 20
years.

When he died, aged 95, and just four weeks after giving up his broadcasts,
cancer had spread to his bones. But prosecutors believe that did not stop the
suspects from surgically extracting bones from his body and selling them on.
They could then have been recycled for dental implants or other bone
reconstructive procedures.

Ms Kittredge told the New York Daily News that she felt "shocked and saddened"
by the morbid revelation and expressed additional dismay that patients may have
unwittingly received bone material from someone who was 95 and cancer-stricken.

"That people in need of healing should have received his body parts, considering
his age and the fact that he was ill when he died, is as appalling to the family
as is that his remains were violated," she said.

According to one source familiar with the ongoing investigation, parts stolen
from dead bodies by members of the ring ranged from skin to cardiac valves as
well as bones, usually the largest ones from legs and arms. To avoid detection,
they would allegedly replace the bones with long PVC pipes or even broomsticks.

Mr Cooke, who lived in a 15th-floor apartment overlooking Central Park, died in
the night. Family members said his body was collected by an undertaker and
transported to a mortuary on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It appears he was
cremated the day after. His ashes were then returned to the family who,
following his wishes, sprinkled them in his beloved Central Park. It seems the
suspected scavengers intervened first and harvested his bones.

Police said the Upper East Side mortuary was raided by detectives this week.
Records were found indicating that authorisation had been given for organs to be
donated by Mr Cooke after death. But family members indicated that no such
permission had been given.

A grisly tale unearthed

The macabre case of the New York body-snatchers surfaced with the help of a
whistleblower, Robert Nelms, after he purchased the Daniel George Funeral Home
in Brooklyn. He and his wife, Deborah Johnson, discovered documents suggesting
that secret body-chopping had occurred on the premises. At the centre of the
investigation, according to police, is a former New York dentist, Michael
Mastromarino, who ran a firm called Biomedical Tissue Services. Mr Mastromarino
allegedly sold Alistair Cooke's bones to Regeneration Technologies of Florida
and Tutogen Medical of New Jersey. Neither company would comment.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world...ticle334823.ece

I do hope that nobody in this newsgroup has had any healthcare treatment from
these companies. If you have, then quite frankly, I would get down the Doctor's
office PDQ

Alan

"Can't you see we're still here,
Can't you see we're still here,
Singing loud; Singing clear,
We shall not go under,
We're still here."

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Alan

2005-12-23, 10:59 am

In article <memo.20051223100555.652P@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk>,
alan@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk (Alan) wrote:

> http://news.independent.co.uk/world...ticle334823.ece
>
> Bodysnatcher inquiry begins after Cooke's bones 'stolen'
> By David Usborne in New York
> Published: 23 December 2005
>
> The family of Alistair Cooke voiced horror yesterday over allegations that
> body-snatchers illicitly carved bones from the venerated broadcaster
> immediately after his death from cancer almost two years ago and sold them
> for profit.
>
> Mr Cooke's daughter, Susan Kittredge, said she learned last week that her
> father may have been one of the victims of a ghoulish body-parts-for-sale
> scam that has been under investigation by the District Attorney's office in
> Brooklyn for several months.
>
> So far, investigators believe they have uncovered about 30 cases where bodies
> submitted for burial or cremation in New York were illicitly plundered in an
> illegal trade that could be worth billions of dollars. The parts were
> allegedly sold to companies that recycle human tissue for use in patients.
>
> As the investigation progresses, investigators have already disinterred three
> bodies - bones were missing from each of them - and may eventually dig up all
> 30 for examination. His bones, police believe, netted the suspects about
> £4,000.
>
> Mr Cooke was an icon of journalism and broadcasting when he died from lung
> cancer on 20 March 2004. He was best known in Britain for his Letter From
> America dispatches for the BBC. In the US, he presented Masterpiece Theater,
> a prime-time slot of mostly British dramas on public television, for more
> than 20 years.
>
> When he died, aged 95, and just four weeks after giving up his broadcasts,
> cancer had spread to his bones. But prosecutors believe that did not stop the
> suspects from surgically extracting bones from his body and selling them on.
> They could then have been recycled for dental implants or other bone
> reconstructive procedures.
>
> Ms Kittredge told the New York Daily News that she felt "shocked and
> saddened" by the morbid revelation and expressed additional dismay that
> patients may have unwittingly received bone material from someone who was 95
> and cancer-stricken.
>
> "That people in need of healing should have received his body parts,
> considering his age and the fact that he was ill when he died, is as
> appalling to the family as is that his remains were violated," she said.
>
> According to one source familiar with the ongoing investigation, parts stolen
> from dead bodies by members of the ring ranged from skin to cardiac valves as
> well as bones, usually the largest ones from legs and arms. To avoid
> detection, they would allegedly replace the bones with long PVC pipes or even
> broomsticks.
>
> Mr Cooke, who lived in a 15th-floor apartment overlooking Central Park, died
> in the night. Family members said his body was collected by an undertaker and
> transported to a mortuary on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It appears he
> was cremated the day after. His ashes were then returned to the family who,
> following his wishes, sprinkled them in his beloved Central Park. It seems
> the suspected scavengers intervened first and harvested his bones.
>
> Police said the Upper East Side mortuary was raided by detectives this week.
> Records were found indicating that authorisation had been given for organs to
> be donated by Mr Cooke after death. But family members indicated that no such
> permission had been given.
>
> A grisly tale unearthed
>
> The macabre case of the New York body-snatchers surfaced with the help of a
> whistleblower, Robert Nelms, after he purchased the Daniel George Funeral
> Home in Brooklyn. He and his wife, Deborah Johnson, discovered documents
> suggesting that secret body-chopping had occurred on the premises. At the
> centre of the investigation, according to police, is a former New York
> dentist, Michael Mastromarino, who ran a firm called Biomedical Tissue
> Services. Mr Mastromarino allegedly sold Alistair Cooke's bones to
> Regeneration Technologies of Florida and Tutogen Medical of New Jersey.
> Neither company would comment.
>
> http://news.independent.co.uk/world...ticle334823.ece
>
> I do hope that nobody in this newsgroup has had any healthcare treatment from
> these companies. If you have, then quite frankly, I would get down the
> Doctor's office PDQ

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4552742.stm

Alistair Cooke's bones 'stolen'

An investigation is under way in New York into allegations that the bones of the
late broadcaster Alistair Cooke were stolen before his cremation.

Cooke, known for the Letter from America he broadcast for the BBC, died almost
two years ago, aged 95.

According to the New York Daily News his bones were stolen by a criminal ring
trading body parts.

They were later sold by a biomedical tissue company now under investigation, the
paper claims.

When Cooke died of lung cancer that spread to his bones in March 2004, his body
was taken to a funeral home in Manhattan.

Two days later, relatives of the iconic broadcaster received his ashes, which
were then scattered in New York's Central Park.

Now they have been told that body snatchers allegedly surgically removed his
bones and sold them for more than $7,000 (£4,000) to a company supplying parts
for use in dental implants and various orthopaedic procedures.

The US attorney general's office in Brooklyn is investigating an elaborate ring
involving funeral directors, surgeons and entrepreneurs.

This is a grim and ghoulish tale which has understandably appalled everyone who
knew Cooke, says the BBC's Guto Harri in New York.

Cooke's stepdaughter, Holly Rumbold, told the BBC's World at One programme she
was outraged by the claims.

"I'm most shocked by the violation of the medical ethics, that my stepfather's
ancient and cancerous bones should have been passed off as healthy tissue to
innocent patients," she said.

"I'm furious, I'm enraged, I'm outraged. My stepfather is not the only one
that's been used for this macabre purpose and people are making billions of
dollars out of it."

Cooke's daughter, Susan Kittredge, also said she was shocked and saddened.

And, as the cause of his death was at least partially bone cancer, she said she
was equally appalled that patients in need of healthy transplant pieces could
have received diseased bones.

The use of cancerous bone for transplant is a violation of the US Food and Drug
Administration's rules, the New York Daily News says. The use of tissue from
very elderly people is also against transplant guidelines.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/st...1673270,00.html

Family's dismay after Alistair Cooke's bones stolen by New York gang

· Relatives of Letter from America author 'outraged'
· Body parts ring included surgeons and undertakers

Gary Younge in New York and Sam Jones
Friday December 23, 2005
The Guardian

The bones of the late broadcaster Alistair Cooke, whose legendary Letter from
America became one of the BBC's most treasured dispatches, were stolen shortly
before his cremation, it was alleged yesterday.

As his life's work drew tributes from both sides of the Atlantic, a criminal
gang allegedly surgically removed his bones and sold them for more than $7,000
(£4,000) to a company supplying parts for use in dental implants and other
orthopaedic procedures, according to the New York Daily News.

An investigation into the gang, which is alleged to have made millions from
several hundred similar snatches, is being carried out by the Brooklyn district
attorney's office. Last week it called the Cooke family to say that his corpse
had been mutilated and sold.

Speaking last night, Cooke's daughter, Susan Kittredge, described the news as
"appalling".

Cooke, a former Guardian writer, died of cancer in March 2004. His body was
taken to a funeral home in Spanish Harlem on the Upper East side of Manhattan
and was cremated two days later. A few weeks after that his family granted him
his dying wish by sprinkling his ashes from Starbucks cups in Central Park.

"[The] family is shocked and saddened by news that following his death parts of
his body were illegally sold for transplant," said Mrs Kittredge, who lives in
Vermont. "That people in need of healing should have received his body parts,
considering his age and the fact that he was ill when he died, is as appalling
to the family as is that his remains were violated."

She said her mother was on her way from New York to join her, adding: "Mother is
93 and it's as disturbing and confusing and unimaginable for her as it is for
most people."

Cooke's long-time secretary, Patricia Yasek, said the news was "truly appalling"
and too upsetting to talk about. The broadcaster's stepdaughter, Holly Rumbold,
told the BBC that what had been done to his body was "corrupt and evil".

She went on to express frustration and fear that, given that her father had had
bone cancer, any transplant could compound the tragedy.

"I'm most shocked by the violation of the medical ethics that my stepfather's
ancient and cancerous bones should have been passed off as healthy tissue to
innocent patients in their quest for better health," she said.

The criminal gang accused of stealing Cooke's bones is at the heart of an
extensive ring of conspirators, including funeral homes, surgeons and biomedical
companies that has allegedly been in operation for at least five years. The gang
is believed to have sold tendons, ligaments and dental remains. Authorities are
also investigating whether they have sold skin for burn victims and heart valves
and arteries for cardiac patients.

Funeral directors were reportedly paid $500 for a corpse, which would then be
dissected. The relevant body parts were then taken away and PVC pipes used to
fill out the clothed bodies that would go into open caskets. The body parts
would later be separated, frozen and shipped to legitimate companies which would
undertake further processing before final sale and transplant. Meanwhile medical
records, including the age of the deceased and cause of death, would be altered
to make the body parts more attractive to buyers.

Cooke's case is one of hundreds under investigation since the alleged ring was
exposed around 18 months ago.

Last month an 82-year-old grandmother from Queens, Esfir Perelmuter, was exhumed
to reveal that most of her bones below the waist were missing and replaced with
plastic plumbing pipe. Ms Perelmuter was 82 and died of brain cancer. The
medical records submitted for her said she was 65 and died of a heart attack.

The Brooklyn district attorney's office said yesterday it had no comment to make
on the case. Letter from America, which began in 1946 and chronicled the
changing nature of US politics, society and culture, became the world's
longest-running speech radio programme. It ran to 2,869 editions over six
decades before Cooke recorded his last report on February 20 2004, a few weeks
before his death.

A BBC spokeswoman said last night: "We share people's extreme revulsion at this
news and our thoughts are with Alistair's family."

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/st...1673270,00.html

I have given you all the information I can find, and as I said, if anybody in
this newsgroup has had any dealings with these companies, then I suggest that
you get down the Doctor's office PDQ and get checked out, because you know as
well as I do that our immune system is already compromised.

Alan

"Can't you see we're still here,
Can't you see we're still here,
Singing loud; Singing clear,
We shall not go under,
We're still here."

Nemesis Peace Centre

http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.../protector.html

Abuse of Women and Children

http://theoriginalfirebird.blogspot.com/

Nemesis News

http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/

Absolute Anarchy

http://lordcerneabbastoo.blogspot.com/

http://www.john-lennon.com/

Alan

2005-12-23, 10:59 am

In article <memo.20051223110235.652Y@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk>,
alan@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk (Alan) wrote:

> In article <memo.20051223100555.652P@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk>,
> alan@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk (Alan) wrote:
>
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4552742.stm
>
> Alistair Cooke's bones 'stolen'
>
> An investigation is under way in New York into allegations that the bones of
> the late broadcaster Alistair Cooke were stolen before his cremation.
>
> Cooke, known for the Letter from America he broadcast for the BBC, died
> almost two years ago, aged 95.
>
> According to the New York Daily News his bones were stolen by a criminal ring
> trading body parts.
>
> They were later sold by a biomedical tissue company now under investigation,
> the paper claims.
>
> When Cooke died of lung cancer that spread to his bones in March 2004, his
> body was taken to a funeral home in Manhattan.
>
> Two days later, relatives of the iconic broadcaster received his ashes, which
> were then scattered in New York's Central Park.
>
> Now they have been told that body snatchers allegedly surgically removed his
> bones and sold them for more than $7,000 (£4,000) to a company supplying
> parts for use in dental implants and various orthopaedic procedures.
>
> The US attorney general's office in Brooklyn is investigating an elaborate
> ring involving funeral directors, surgeons and entrepreneurs.
>
> This is a grim and ghoulish tale which has understandably appalled everyone
> who knew Cooke, says the BBC's Guto Harri in New York.
>
> Cooke's stepdaughter, Holly Rumbold, told the BBC's World at One programme
> she was outraged by the claims.
>
> "I'm most shocked by the violation of the medical ethics, that my
> stepfather's ancient and cancerous bones should have been passed off as
> healthy tissue to innocent patients," she said.
>
> "I'm furious, I'm enraged, I'm outraged. My stepfather is not the only one
> that's been used for this macabre purpose and people are making billions of
> dollars out of it."
>
> Cooke's daughter, Susan Kittredge, also said she was shocked and saddened.
>
> And, as the cause of his death was at least partially bone cancer, she said
> she was equally appalled that patients in need of healthy transplant pieces
> could have received diseased bones.
>
> The use of cancerous bone for transplant is a violation of the US Food and
> Drug Administration's rules, the New York Daily News says. The use of tissue
> from very elderly people is also against transplant guidelines.
>
> http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/st...1673270,00.html
>
> Family's dismay after Alistair Cooke's bones stolen by New York gang
>
> · Relatives of Letter from America author 'outraged'
> · Body parts ring included surgeons and undertakers
>
> Gary Younge in New York and Sam Jones
> Friday December 23, 2005
> The Guardian
>
> The bones of the late broadcaster Alistair Cooke, whose legendary Letter from
> America became one of the BBC's most treasured dispatches, were stolen
> shortly before his cremation, it was alleged yesterday.
>
> As his life's work drew tributes from both sides of the Atlantic, a criminal
> gang allegedly surgically removed his bones and sold them for more than
> $7,000 (£4,000) to a company supplying parts for use in dental implants and
> other orthopaedic procedures, according to the New York Daily News.
>
> An investigation into the gang, which is alleged to have made millions from
> several hundred similar snatches, is being carried out by the Brooklyn
> district attorney's office. Last week it called the Cooke family to say that
> his corpse had been mutilated and sold.
>
> Speaking last night, Cooke's daughter, Susan Kittredge, described the news as
> "appalling".
>
> Cooke, a former Guardian writer, died of cancer in March 2004. His body was
> taken to a funeral home in Spanish Harlem on the Upper East side of Manhattan
> and was cremated two days later. A few weeks after that his family granted
> him his dying wish by sprinkling his ashes from Starbucks cups in Central
> Park.
>
> "[The] family is shocked and saddened by news that following his death parts
> of his body were illegally sold for transplant," said Mrs Kittredge, who
> lives in Vermont. "That people in need of healing should have received his
> body parts, considering his age and the fact that he was ill when he died, is
> as appalling to the family as is that his remains were violated."
>
> She said her mother was on her way from New York to join her, adding: "Mother
> is 93 and it's as disturbing and confusing and unimaginable for her as it is
> for most people."
>
> Cooke's long-time secretary, Patricia Yasek, said the news was "truly
> appalling" and too upsetting to talk about. The broadcaster's stepdaughter,
> Holly Rumbold, told the BBC that what had been done to his body was "corrupt
> and evil".
>
> She went on to express frustration and fear that, given that her father had
> had bone cancer, any transplant could compound the tragedy.
>
> "I'm most shocked by the violation of the medical ethics that my stepfather's
> ancient and cancerous bones should have been passed off as healthy tissue to
> innocent patients in their quest for better health," she said.
>
> The criminal gang accused of stealing Cooke's bones is at the heart of an
> extensive ring of conspirators, including funeral homes, surgeons and
> biomedical companies that has allegedly been in operation for at least five
> years. The gang is believed to have sold tendons, ligaments and dental
> remains. Authorities are also investigating whether they have sold skin for
> burn victims and heart valves and arteries for cardiac patients.
>
> Funeral directors were reportedly paid $500 for a corpse, which would then be
> dissected. The relevant body parts were then taken away and PVC pipes used to
> fill out the clothed bodies that would go into open caskets. The body parts
> would later be separated, frozen and shipped to legitimate companies which
> would undertake further processing before final sale and transplant.
> Meanwhile medical records, including the age of the deceased and cause of
> death, would be altered to make the body parts more attractive to buyers.
>
> Cooke's case is one of hundreds under investigation since the alleged ring
> was exposed around 18 months ago.
>
> Last month an 82-year-old grandmother from Queens, Esfir Perelmuter, was
> exhumed to reveal that most of her bones below the waist were missing and
> replaced with plastic plumbing pipe. Ms Perelmuter was 82 and died of brain
> cancer. The medical records submitted for her said she was 65 and died of a
> heart attack.
>
> The Brooklyn district attorney's office said yesterday it had no comment to
> make on the case. Letter from America, which began in 1946 and chronicled the
> changing nature of US politics, society and culture, became the world's
> longest-running speech radio programme. It ran to 2,869 editions over six
> decades before Cooke recorded his last report on February 20 2004, a few
> weeks before his death.
>
> A BBC spokeswoman said last night: "We share people's extreme revulsion at
> this news and our thoughts are with Alistair's family."
>
> http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/st...1673270,00.html
>
> I have given you all the information I can find, and as I said, if anybody in
> this newsgroup has had any dealings with these companies, then I suggest that
> you get down the Doctor's office PDQ and get checked out, because you know as
> well as I do that our immune system is already compromised.

There is a watered down version in the New York Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/st...9p-320362c.html

Sad task for
Cooke daughter

By WILLIAM SHERMAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

She learned the horrible news last week - her father, Alistair Cooke, had his
cancer-ridden bones stolen by an illicit body-parts-for-sale ring.

But Susan Cooke Kittredge, whose father was best known to Americans as the host
of PBS' "Masterpiece Theatre," couldn't bear to tell her mother, Jane, until she
sees her in person today.

"My mother is 93, she's in good health, but she's frail and I didn't want to
tell her on the phone. I wanted to tell her in person," Kittredge said.

Kittredge, a minister who lives in Vermont, said her mother was en route
yesterday from New York for a visit.

"It's horrific, our whole family is outraged because we all adored him. I mean,
it's just hard to wrap your mind around," Kittredge said.

"I'll tell my mother myself," she added.

Cooke, who appeared on PBS for more than 20 years starting in 1971, was an
author and journalist who specialized in writing about America. He penned and
narrated a weekly 13-minute series of essays, "Letter From America," broadcast
by the British Broadcasting Company around the world without interruption from
1946 until 2003, when his health began to fail.

Cooke died March 30, 2004, of lung cancer that had spread to his bones. The next
day, before his cremation, body snatchers surgically cut out his bones and sold
them for more than $7,000 to two tissue processing companies for eventual
transplant procedures.

No one in Cooke's family gave permission for the body harvesting, either
verbally or by signing a donor consent form.

But an allegedly forged consent form was produced by the bodysnatchers who wrote
that "Susan Quint," an alleged family member, had given permission.

The alleged leader of the ring of ghouls is Michael Mastromarino, head of
Biomedical Tissue Services Ltd. of Fort Lee, N.J.

His business operations, which included the complicity of more than 30 funeral
homes that provided the corpses, are under investigation by the Brooklyn
district attorney's office.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/st...9p-320362c.html

Alan

"Can't you see we're still here,
Can't you see we're still here,
Singing loud; Singing clear,
We shall not go under,
We're still here."

Nemesis Peace Centre

http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.../protector.html

Abuse of Women and Children

http://theoriginalfirebird.blogspot.com/

Nemesis News

http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/

Absolute Anarchy

http://lordcerneabbastoo.blogspot.com/

http://www.john-lennon.com/

Alan

2005-12-23, 6:00 pm

In article <memo.20051223113246.1008A@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk>,
alan@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk (Alan) wrote:

> In article <memo.20051223110235.652Y@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk>,
> alan@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk (Alan) wrote:
>
[vbcol=seagreen]
[vbcol=seagreen]
[vbcol=seagreen]
> http://www.nydailynews.com/front/st...9p-320362c.html

FDA Provides Information on Investigation into Human Tissue for
Transplantation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
P05-77
October 26, 2005
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2005/NEW01249.html

--

Body snatchers tied to allograft firms?
Alleged New York-area ring investigated for selling parts to corpse tissue
harvesters.
October 7, 2005: 2:54 PM EDT
By Aaron Smith, CNN/Money staff writer
http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/07/new...on=money_latest

--

Class-Action Claims Tainted Body Tissue Could Give Patients AIDS
December 1, 2005
http://www.courthousenews.com/Jump.Dec.1.htm

EDISON, N.J. (CN) – Medtronic Sofamor Danek and its subsidiary, Spinal
Graft Technologies, are lead defendants in a racketeering class-action
claim in Somerset County Court that accuses them of putting people at risk
of AIDS, hepatitis and other diseases by negligently harvesting,
processing and selling human tissue and body parts. Plaintiffs,
represented by Lombardi & Lombardi, claim the multiple defendants did not
properly screen the material collected for allografts – human implants –
and that the USFDA in October issued a recall of human tissue transplant
material manufactured of distributed by defendant Biomedical Tissue
Services. Also in October, the Centers for Disease Control recommended
that all physicians who implanted tissue provided by defendants Medtronic,
RTI, Tutogen, LifeCell, LMTB and BTCCT recommend that the patients be
tested for HIV, hepatitis B and C and syphilis, the suit states.
Plaintiffs seek punitive damage, disgorgement, and a fund for the putative
victims.

The defendants are Medrontic Sofamor Danek; Spinal Graft Technologies,
L.L.C., a subsidiary of Medrontic Sofamor Danek; Regeneration
Technologies, Inc.; Biomedical Tissue Services, Ltd.; Tutogen Medical,
Inc.; Lifecell Corp.; Lost Mountain Tissue Bank; Blood and Tissue Center
of Central Texas; Michael Mastromarino, D.M.D.; Joseph Nicelli; and Daniel
George & Son Funeral Home.

--

CNN Sunday
December 18, 2005
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRI.../18/sun.02.html
(About half way down, using Find: Feyerick)

Alan

"Can't you see we're still here,
Can't you see we're still here,
Singing loud; Singing clear,
We shall not go under,
We're still here."

Nemesis Peace Centre

http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.../protector.html

Abuse of Women and Children

http://theoriginalfirebird.blogspot.com/

Nemesis News

http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/

Absolute Anarchy

http://lordcerneabbastoo.blogspot.com/

http://www.john-lennon.com/