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Alan wrote:
>
> In article <11qn42s644eh53d@corp.supernews.com>, waterspider@moonlight.net
> (Waterspider) wrote:
>
>
> But this is no myth is it Spidey? This is *News*
I don't find it that far fetched based on the fact that tattoo artists
came under fire for spreading blood borne diseases, and the fact that
some pts. acquired HCV from mass vaccination programs at schools in the
50's and 60's. ( had to do with the type of equipment they used to give
the vax).
Couldn't hurt to look, could it?
hoof
>
> http://news.independent.co.uk/world...ticle334823.ece
>
> 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.
>
> Several months? Have they actually warned anybody? Have they told any doctors
> that an investigation was going on?
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I bet they wouldn't!
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> Come on do tell me Spidey? Is this an urban myth when it is all over the British
> News? How many people in America have recieved these *infected* body parts?
>
> Alan
>
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