Four men were charged with illegally harvesting and selling dead body tissues from 1077 corpses including that of British broadcaster Allistair Cooke.<\/p>\n
The men who worked for a human medical tissue implant company, were charged with conspiracy, unlawful dissection and forgery.<\/p>\n
Among other allegations they were said to have made over $2000,000 selling body parts from a Brooklyn funeral home.<\/p>\n
Everything from glands eyes organs and particularly bones were sold mainly for hip implants.<\/p>\n
After taking bones from bodies they replaced them with plastic pipes,<\/p>\n
Since the days of Victorian body snatchers Burke and Hare, medical practitioners have used the dead for experimentation.<\/p>\n
The practise is said to be widespread across both the U.S and Britain<\/p>\n
The men face a prison sentence of up to 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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