NEW YORK (AP) -- The head of a biomedical firm has been charged with plotting to steal bone and other tissue from cadavers at New York City funeral homes and sell it nationwide for transplants, a law enforcement official said Wednesday. It is the latest development in a burgeoning scandal involving scores of funeral homes and hundreds of looted bodies, including that of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke, who died of cancer in 2004.
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes was expected to announce indictments on Thursday.
They allege that Michael Mastromarino, owner of Biomedical Tissue Services of Fort Lee, New Jersey, ran an illicit body parts ring, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the indictments still were sealed. Three co-conspirators also will be charged, the official said. . . .
[A]uthorities say the suspects profited by selling the tissue to companies that turned it into products used for disk replacements, dental implants and a variety of other operations performed by unsuspecting doctors across the United States and in Canada.
That's fucking gross. And doesn't the name Mastromarino remind you of "Nosferatu"? Details here from the AP via CNN.com.