Felix Krull
24.07.2009, 10:01
"Korruption als Lebensart"
New Jersey wird von einem massiven Korruptionsskandal erschüttert. Das FBI verhaftete jetzt auf einen Schlag 44 Personen, darunter prominente Lokalpolitiker und Rabbis. Die Vorwürfe bestätigen den ohnehin schon elenden Ruf des vielverspotteten US-Bundesstaates. [...]
Organhändler unter den Festgenommenen
Der wohl bizarrste Vorwurf trifft einen Mann aus Brooklyn namens Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, der über diverse Ecken mit dem Rabbi-Network verbandelt sein soll. Die Staatsanwaltschaft bezeichnete ihn als einen "Organhändler": Er habe versucht, einem Undercover-Agenten für 10.000 Dollar eine Niere abzukaufen und diese dann unwissentlich einem anderen FBI-Spion angedient - für erst 150.000, später 160.000 Dollar. Rosenbaum habe sich gerühmt, schon "recht viele" Nieren vermittelt zu haben. "Ich bin ein Matchmaker", zitiert die Anklage ihn. [...]
"Korruption als Lebensart" (http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,637938,00.html)
Wie nicht anders zu erwarten, verschweigt und verharmlost SPON natürlich das Ausmaß des internationalen Organhandels. Seit sieben Jahren federführend im illegalen Organhandel ist dabei der Rabbi Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum.
http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/07/24/amd_rabbi-rosenbaum.jpg
New York Daily News schreibt: (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/07/24/2009-07-24_seven_year_quest_to_end_rosenbaum_evil_work_pay s_off.html)
The Brooklyn man arrested Thursday for dealing in black-market kidneys was identified to the FBI seven years ago as a major figure in a global human organ ring.
Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum's name, address and even phone number were passed to an FBI agent in a meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan by a prominent anthropologist who has been studying and documenting organ trafficking for more than a decade.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes of the University of California, Berkeley, was and is very clear as to Rosenbaum's role in the ring.
"He is the main U.S. broker for an international trafficking network," she said.
Her sources include a man who started working with Rosenbaum imagining he was helping people in desperate need. The man then began to see the donors, or to be more accurate, sellers, who were flown in from impoverished countries such as Moldova.
"He said it was awful. These people would be brought in and they didn't even know what they were supposed to be doing and they would want to go home and they would cry," Scheper-Hughes said.
The man called Rosenbaum "a thug" who would pull out a pistol he was apparently licensed to carry and tell the sellers, "You're here. A deal is a deal. Now, you'll give us a kidney or you'll never go home.' "
New Jersey wird von einem massiven Korruptionsskandal erschüttert. Das FBI verhaftete jetzt auf einen Schlag 44 Personen, darunter prominente Lokalpolitiker und Rabbis. Die Vorwürfe bestätigen den ohnehin schon elenden Ruf des vielverspotteten US-Bundesstaates. [...]
Organhändler unter den Festgenommenen
Der wohl bizarrste Vorwurf trifft einen Mann aus Brooklyn namens Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, der über diverse Ecken mit dem Rabbi-Network verbandelt sein soll. Die Staatsanwaltschaft bezeichnete ihn als einen "Organhändler": Er habe versucht, einem Undercover-Agenten für 10.000 Dollar eine Niere abzukaufen und diese dann unwissentlich einem anderen FBI-Spion angedient - für erst 150.000, später 160.000 Dollar. Rosenbaum habe sich gerühmt, schon "recht viele" Nieren vermittelt zu haben. "Ich bin ein Matchmaker", zitiert die Anklage ihn. [...]
"Korruption als Lebensart" (http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,637938,00.html)
Wie nicht anders zu erwarten, verschweigt und verharmlost SPON natürlich das Ausmaß des internationalen Organhandels. Seit sieben Jahren federführend im illegalen Organhandel ist dabei der Rabbi Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum.
http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/07/24/amd_rabbi-rosenbaum.jpg
New York Daily News schreibt: (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/07/24/2009-07-24_seven_year_quest_to_end_rosenbaum_evil_work_pay s_off.html)
The Brooklyn man arrested Thursday for dealing in black-market kidneys was identified to the FBI seven years ago as a major figure in a global human organ ring.
Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum's name, address and even phone number were passed to an FBI agent in a meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan by a prominent anthropologist who has been studying and documenting organ trafficking for more than a decade.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes of the University of California, Berkeley, was and is very clear as to Rosenbaum's role in the ring.
"He is the main U.S. broker for an international trafficking network," she said.
Her sources include a man who started working with Rosenbaum imagining he was helping people in desperate need. The man then began to see the donors, or to be more accurate, sellers, who were flown in from impoverished countries such as Moldova.
"He said it was awful. These people would be brought in and they didn't even know what they were supposed to be doing and they would want to go home and they would cry," Scheper-Hughes said.
The man called Rosenbaum "a thug" who would pull out a pistol he was apparently licensed to carry and tell the sellers, "You're here. A deal is a deal. Now, you'll give us a kidney or you'll never go home.' "