Brooklyn, NY – A former surgeon has agreed to plead guilty to charges he orchestrated a grisly plot to plunder corpses and sell body parts for transplants.
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Michael Mastromarino was making millions by covertly carving up hundreds of corpses at a Brooklyn funeral home and selling the parts for dental implants, hip replacements and other procedures nationwide, with an untold number of patients who were unknowingly exposed to infection.
The 44-year-old Mastromarino, a Brooklyn mortician and two so-called "cutters" were charged with body stealing, opening graves. Also did seven other funeral directors plead guilty and agreed to cooperate, as has one of the cutters.
Mastromarino will enter the guilty plea on Jan. 22, and face 18 to 54 years in prison. [AP]