Organ trafficker pleads guilty

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Feb 15, 2011
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A Brooklyn man became the first person in the U.S. convicted of organ-trafficking when he pleaded guilty Thursday to selling black-market kidneys at a huge markup.

Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, 60, admitted to brokering just three transplants, but he boasted on tape that he actually handled "quite a lot" during the decade-long scheme.

Prosecutors charged he was a profiteer who paid vulnerable Israelis as little as $10,000 to give up a kidney and charged desperate Americans $120,000 and up for the organs.

Read more: Brooklyn black-market kidney broker pleads guilty to selling Israeli organs to desperate Americans
 

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