'Black market' cash-for-kidneys trader Rosenbaum gets 2-1/2 years in prison

'Black market' cash-for-kidneys trader Rosenbaum gets 2-1/2 years in prison

NEW YORK -- An Israeli man who pleaded guilty to illegally brokering kidney transplants for profit in the United States, the first such conviction under federal law, was sentenced on Wednesday to two-and-a-half years in prison, prosecutors said. Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, a 61-year old Israeli citizen who lived in Brooklyn, pleaded guilty last October to charges that he brokered kidney transplants between paid donors and recipients on three occasions. Prosecutors said Rosenbaum charged between $120,000 and $150,000 to help three New Jersey residents find kidneys for transplant between 2006 and 2009. He also pleaded to a count of conspiracy to broker a fourth kidney transaction following a sting operation leading to his arrest involving an undercover FBI agent who pretended to have a sick uncle.

How ghoulish can you get making money from dealing in body parts is sick. 2 1/2 years is just a slap on the wrist he should have gotten the full twenty years. In truth who knows how long this sicko has been doing this. I give him six months before he is pardoned or Israel partitions him to be sent back there.

reply to post by buster2010


in-f-ing-credible
organ traffickers [and that's what this guy is] are not human in my book
and deserve the death penalty

too bad i don't have Gil the Arm's en.wikipedia.org...
"imaginary arm"

I don't see the problem, if you are willing to sell your kidney and someone is willing to buy who is really doing anything wrong? Insurance companies and hospitals have been doing the same thing forever.

reply to post by DerepentLEstranger


Off topic but this is why I love ATS. I have some new books to check out. Thanks.

CJ

reply to post by ColoradoJens


they are great little stories
and shows the darker aspect of transplant tech
[probably nazi science, it's true. sex change operation was mengele's little project]
Gil became an ARM agent after discovering that
his transplanted arm did not come from a convict [tax cheats are included]


also from john byrne's world of krypton
www.comicvine.com...

Following Crisis on Infinite Earths, which rebooted the history of the DC Universe and retro-actively eliminated the existence of the Golden and Silver Age versions of Krypton, writer/artist John Byrne was given the task of recreating the entire Superman mythos. This rewrite was started in the 1986 Man of Steel miniseries, which addressed Krypton in both its opening and closing chapters.

Krypton itself was the main subject of the late 1980s The World of Krypton miniseries (not to be confused with the 1979 miniseries of the same name). This miniseries was written by Byrne and illustrated by Mike Mignola, and filled in much of Krypton's new history.
History

The new Krypton was approximately one and a half times larger than the Earth and orbited a Red Sun called Rao, 50 light-years from our solar system. Krypton's primordial era produced some of the most dangerous organisms in the Universe. It was for this reason that Krypton was chosen as the place to create Doomsday through forced evolution. Until its destruction, many dangerous animals, including ferrophage moles, still existed on Krypton. Kryptonians had to use their advanced technology to survive.

Over 100,000 years ago, Krypton had already developed scientific advancements far beyond those of present-day Earth, and within a few millennia had conquered disease, learned to delay the aging process, and perfected cloning; vast banks of non-sentient clones held multiple copies of each living Kryptonian so that replacement parts were always available in the case of injury.

All Kryptonians were effectively immortal, "with all the strength and vigor of youth maintained",[7] and enjoyed an idyllic, sensual existence in an Arcadian paradise.[8]

However, this society was tipping toward decadence and eventually political strife that resulted from the debate as to whether clones should have rights (sparked by the presence of an alien missionary known as The Cleric).[9] Eventually this disagreement led to open violent conflict especially after it was openly discovered that a woman's cloned copy of herself was allowed to gain full sentience and to establish a full, normal life. However, when a young man (the original woman's son) had discovered that his fiance was this clone, he killed the clone, and then publicly killed his mother, and also attempted his own suicide before being stopped. This key incident ignited the Clone Wars, during which Kryptonian science was turned to warfare and several super-weapons were developed and used. Among them were the devices which became known as the Eradicator and the Destroyer.

Although the Eradicator's effects (altering the DNA of all Kryptonian life-forms so that they would instantly die upon leaving the planet) were felt immediately, the Destroyer's effects were possibly more significant: By the time the Kryptonian government admitted defeat and abolished the clone banks, a pro-clone rights terrorist faction known as Black Zero had started the Destroyer, a device which functioned as a giant nuclear gun, projecting massive streams of nuclear energy into the core of Krypton, intended to trigger an explosive chain reaction within Krypton's core almost immediately.

At the time, it was believed that although the use of the Destroyer resulted in a nuclear explosion which eliminated the post-crisis city of Kandor, the device had been stopped before it could achieve planetary destruction (ironically, by an ancestor of Jor-El himself), but centuries later Jor-El would discover that the reaction had only been slowed to a nearly imperceptible rate and would eventually destroy the planet as intended.

organ transplantation is a form of cannibalism
a necessary evil in it's day

however hopefully between stem-cell research and 3d-printing tech we can soon leave it behind

and remember: you are what you eat [horizontal gene transfer]