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5:07 pm
July 27, 2009


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July 27, 2009

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A U.S. professor reportedly alerted the FBI to kidney trafficking years before a sting operation in New Jersey.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, tipped off authorities seven years ago after learning of Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum’s alleged crimes through her research, Ha’aretz wrote.

Rosenbaum was among 44 people arrested July 23 in a two-year probe that snared high-ranking politicians and religious leaders involved in a money-laundering scheme.

According to the Israeli daily, Scheper-Hughes’ sources said that Rosenbaum held donors at gunpoint when they considered backing out of the procedure. Many donors  were villagers from poor communities in Eastern Europe.

According to Scheper-Hughes’ research, one out of every five adult men in Moldova’s poorest villages have had a kidney removed.

The U.S. State Department said in 2004 that “it would be impossible to conceal a clandestine organ trafficking ring.”

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/07/27/1006824/us-professor-told-fbi-about-kidney-trafficking-years-ago


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10:02 pm
July 27, 2009


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Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, tipped off authorities seven years ago after learning of Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum’s alleged crimes through her research

seven years ago…            shaking head

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10:29 pm
July 27, 2009


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Yep. Pathetic. Remind you of the FBI agent in Minnesota who tried to get headquarters to listen to her before 9/11?

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10:32 pm
July 27, 2009


Brandon Dean

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Raven said:

Yep. Pathetic. Remind you of the FBI agent in Minnesota who tried to get headquarters to listen to her before 9/11?


are you talking about the pretty female one who got completely censured, or the guy who got almost completely censured?

I guess it would apply to either one…

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