Vet's Body was 'Harvested' in Scam

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Vet's Body was 'Harvested' in Scam
October 23, 2008
Philadelphia Daily News

To the heartless thieves who stole body parts, he was a number: BM04J132.

To Charlene Ann Williams, BM04J132 was her only son and "my world" -- Jason Charles Hasbrouk, a highly decorated Soldier who participated in the Mogadishu rescue and in a dangerous Haiti mission, then died at 30 of a debilitating pituitary tumor, which had left him blind.

But no foreign enemy could have desecrated this American hero worse than three co-defendants -- sentenced yesterday here -- in a national body-parts-for-sale scam.

Cutters pillaged Hasbrouk's body of skin, bones, tendons and other tissue without consent after his organs had been donated to others upon his death in 2004.

Then, Gerald Garzone, a funeral-home operator involved in the scam, folded an American flag, which he turned over with an urn of Hasbrouk's ashes to his grieving parents.


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