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UCLA Body Harvesting
Following a body harvesting scandal involving their Willed Body Program, UCLA cleaned up its act and reopened the program with tighter controls including video cameras and motion detectors.
The program was suspended in 2004 following the arrest of Henry Reid, director of the UCLA Willed Body Program, on charges of illegally selling body parts from cadavers. Another man involved in the UCLA scandal was found dead in his apartment.
Body harvesting can be very lucrative according to an investigation conducted by the Orange County Register. Profits up to nearly $100,000 from a single body can be made by body harvesters.
La Voz de Aztlan, and "independent news service," refers to the UCLA body harvesting scandal as the "Organ Mafia," which they claims consists "of 'cadaver hunters', surgeons, nurses and hospital administrators whose sole purpose is to maximize their profits by selling transplantable organs and tissues to the highest bidder. The ultimate victims are indigent patients who are often bypassed for needed transplants and poor and needy persons who are often victimized by the "organ snatchers" when their organs are purchased and often stolen for use by wealthy patients."
However, no one other than those who worked UCLA's Willed Body Program have been charged with any crimes.
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