U.S. Professor Says She Told FBI About Kidney Trafficking (seven years ago)

[Purveyor]

July 27, 2009

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A U.S. professor reportedly alerted the FBI to kidney trafficking years before a sting operation in New Jersey.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, tipped off authorities seven years ago after learning of Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum's alleged crimes through her research, Ha'aretz wrote.

Rosenbaum was among 44 people arrested July 23 in a two-year probe that snared high-ranking politicians and religious leaders involved in a money-laundering scheme.

According to the Israeli daily, Scheper-Hughes' sources said that Rosenbaum held donors at gunpoint when they considered backing out of the procedure. Many donors were villagers from poor communities in Eastern Europe.

According to Scheper-Hughes' research, one out of every five adult men in Moldova's poorest villages have had a kidney removed.

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/07/27/1006824/us-professor-told-fbi-about-kidney-trafficking-years-ago

[mix]

1. The Ivory Tower is not so removed from the real world, it never has been.

The global sex slave trade is another area in which social scientists were years ahead of law enforcement.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. YaY for social scientists.

The Cassandras of the forensic world.

[BlooInBloo]

2. (shrug) You could have told bush that bin Laden was determined to strike in the US....

And he still wouldn't have done anything. True fact.

[Hannah Bell]

3. kick for more evidence of the triumph of capitalism!

"if living were a thing that money could buy...you know the rich would live, & the poor would die..."

[malaise]

5. Now they're stealing the poor's organs

Good fugging grief!!!!

gr.

[malaise]

4. one out of every five adult men in Moldova's poorest villages have had a kidney removed.

WTF?