NOT THE SHARPEST KNIVES IN THE DRAWER: FBI Lacked Jaundiced Eye Before Cutting Deal With Gangster Needing Liver Transplant
World-renowned liver surgeon Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil unwittingly performed liver transplants on four Japanese gangsters between 2000 and 2004. More than 100 patients died awaiting liver transplants in the greater Los Angeles area during each of those years, reports The Associated Press. In exchange for leads on Japanese gangs in this country, the FBI helped Tadamasa Goto, get a visa after he had been barred from entering the U.S. because of his criminal activities as leader of the Goto-gumi gang. “I don't think Goto gave the bureau anything of significance,” Jim Stern, retired chief of the FBI's Asian criminal enterprise unit, told the Los Angeles Times, which broke the transplant story. He added that Goto “came to the States and got a liver and was laughing back to where he came from. ... It defies logic.”
Coincidently – or not – Goto and another mobster each donated $100K to the transplant center after their procedures, reports the Los Angeles Times. U.S. transplant rules allow hospitals to perform transplants on foreigners, and criminal history does not disqualify a patient from receiving an organ.
$100K for a kidney? Is that the going rate here? Those gangsters could have gone to PI for 1/5 of the cost.
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