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NEW YORK — A former oral surgeon has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he orchestrated a grisly plot to plunder corpses and sell body parts for transplants, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Prosecutors say Michael Mastromarino, 44, was making millions by covertly carving up hundreds of corpses at a Brooklyn funeral home and selling the parts for dental implants, hip replacements and other procedures nationwide.
Prosecutors said that the cadavers were looted without permission or proper screening for diseases and that an untold number of patients were unknowingly exposed to infection. Among the bodies was that of “Masterpiece Theatre” host Alistair Cooke, who died in 2004.
