{"id":282,"date":"2008-04-08T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/organ-harvester-cries-mercy\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T22:15:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T05:15:57","slug":"organ-harvester-cries-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/08\/organ-harvester-cries-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Organ Harvester Pleads Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Master ghoul in body parts scam wants plea deal<\/h1>\n

BY CHRISTINA BOYLE<\/p>\n

Sunday, April 6th 2008, 4:00 AM<\/p>\n

\"OrganA former oral surgeon who admitted trafficking stolen body parts in\u00a0New York<\/a>\u00a0is now trying to cut a deal in\u00a0Philadelphia<\/a>\u00a0to avoid serving more time for a similar body-snatching charge.<\/p>\n

Michael Mastromarino<\/a>\u00a0wants his latest sentence to run concurrently with the 18- to 54-year sentence he is already serving – meaning he would not spend one extra day in jail. But prosecutors are balking at the two-for-one proposal and want the so-called master ghoul to serve an additional 20 to 40 years in the slammer.<\/p>\n

Mastromarino, 44, was the boss of a multimillion-dollar body-snatching ring that plundered at least 44 corpses, according to Philadelphia prosecutors. He has already pleaded guilty to carving up hundreds of corpses at area funeral homes in New York and illegally selling body parts. He was sentenced in that case last year.<\/p>\n

Mastromarino did not appear at a pretrial hearing in Philadelphia on Friday but defense lawyer\u00a0Charles Peruto Jr.<\/a>\u00a0vowed to push for concurrent sentences.<\/p>\n

With News Wire Services<\/p>\n

[ click to view original article at NY Daily News<\/a> ]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Master ghoul in body parts scam wants plea deal BY CHRISTINA BOYLE Sunday, April 6th 2008, 4:00 AM A former oral surgeon who admitted trafficking stolen body parts in\u00a0New York\u00a0is now trying to cut a deal in\u00a0Philadelphia\u00a0to avoid serving more time for a similar body-snatching charge. Michael Mastromarino\u00a0wants his latest sentence to run concurrently with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}