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PHILADELPHIA — Three men who conspired to plunder corpses and sell the sometimes diseased body parts were sentenced to prison Wednesday.
In New Jersey, meanwhile, a federal judge ruled against some of the patients who sued after receiving some of the body parts, saying they failed to establish grounds to sue.
The mastermind of the scheme, Michael Mastromarino, was sentenced to 25 to 58 years in prison. Brothers Louis and Gerald Garzone, who provided bodies from a pair of funeral homes and a crematorium they ran in Philadelphia, will serve eight to 20 years.
The bodies cut up and sold included that of “Masterpiece Theatre” host Alistair Cooke.
