#BodyPartsTrade

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Alistair Cooke British broadcaster whose bones were cut from his body before his cremation in 2004 and sold by Michael Mastromarino's Biomedical Tissue Services to two tissue processors.
Gerald Garzone Philadelphia funeral director and co-owner of Liberty Crematorium who sold bodies to Michael Mastromarino's tissue company and whose appeal of a prosecution-cost order reached the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Louis Garzone Philadelphia funeral director and co-owner of Liberty Crematorium who supplied at least 244 bodies to Michael Mastromarino's tissue company and was sentenced in 2008 to 8 to 20 years.
Michael Mastromarino Former New Jersey oral surgeon whose company, Biomedical Tissue Services, took bone and tissue from more than a thousand corpses without consent and sold it to tissue processors.

Biomedical Tissue Services Fort Lee, New Jersey, tissue-recovery company run by Michael Mastromarino that took tissue from more than a thousand corpses without consent and sold it to processors, until closed by the FDA in 2006.
Garzone Funeral Home Philadelphia funeral home and crematorium whose owners sold 244 corpses to the tissue broker Michael Mastromarino between 2004 and 2005, and to whose crematorium the pornographer R.C. Horsch is reported to have bought access.
LifeCell Tissue processor that bought tissue from Biomedical Tissue Services, recalled it in 2005, and faced recipients' lawsuits.
Lost Mountain Tissue Bank Georgia tissue processor that received tissue directly from Biomedical Tissue Services and recalled it in 2005.
Regeneration Technologies Florida tissue processor that bought tissue from Biomedical Tissue Services, including bones taken from Alistair Cooke, and merged with Tutogen Medical in 2008 to form RTI Biologics.
Tutogen Medical New Jersey tissue processor that bought tissue from Biomedical Tissue Services, including bones taken from Alistair Cooke, and merged into RTI Biologics in 2008.