movie, to be quite honest with you, i felt the same way that everybody else felt when they first heard about it. then he explained to me, yes, it s done every day, this is a legal business. and then i began to do my own research on the industry. so that was my first meeting with michael. like any case, if you don t know it, you have to educate yourself. if it s a medical case, you have to speak to a medical doctor. if it s a bone case, you have to speak to the people who process bone. then i learned it was legal. so it became like, well, i didn t know that. but let me take a look at it. it s been documented you cannot pay for bone, you can t buy bone. so what they call it is paying for recovery fee. the companies that process bones pay for the service of recovering their bone. sure enough, i just happened to be looking through documents to understand what was in those boxes, i looked at two documents that supposedly should have had the same person s signature on
what mastromarino did was to light a flame under my imagination that will never be stilled. even though it has been years since this happened, and i try and put it out of my mind, when i do revisit it, all i can think of you know, he died at midnight. so it was dark and someone stole his body in the middle of the night. my father was skinned, and they took 900 square inches of skin, every bone they could and mutilated him. that breaks my heart. i have low testosterone. there, i said it.
the bone has cancer so now the recipient has cancer. that s just not true. these are where i have problems with the industry and the so-called smart guys make up these rules. i would like to sit down with these smart people and talk about them. my name is john heeley. i m a physician and orthopedic surgeon, professor of orthopedics at cornell university medical school in new york, and the chief of orthopedics at sloan-kettering cancer center in new york city. dr. heeley was the expert that basically said what michael mastro mastromarino did and the type of tissues that he took put the transplant recipients in harm s way. bone that is osteoporotic who has had cancer or other disease is not as strong. it s not going to stand up long enough. it doesn t heal as well and so that is a serious problem. the hiv testing, for example,
was doing well. the companies are doing well. they re wall street companies. the day i got indicted they stopped trading on the stock market. i mean, if that doesn t show you some influence, i mean, i don t know what does. michael mastromarino crook and scum though he is, he is a cog in the wheel. he is an engine that was running and bone was the fuel and everybody wanted it as far as the industry goes and that is the truth. and i was a part of that.
was not conducted in the standard way. these donors could have been infected and the processing not been sufficient to cleanse that bone and make it safe for transplantation. several of them actually had cancer. cancer to cancer, again, let s go back to cancer. we spoke about this earlier. unless it was lymphoma, leukemia, breast cancer doesn t affect the bone. brain cancer doesn t affect the bone. lung cancer, not unless it is metastatic cancer, there is no infection in the bone. however, the cancer will have eroded that bone, it will have weakened that bone. the treatment that the patient has received for that cancer will have compromised the tissue in a variety of ways. i can just speak as a person, not as a doctor. but i wouldn t want to receive that bone myself. so just on that gut level, it fails. hepatitis b is not an easy disease to catch.