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Human tissue conspiracy case results in prison term

BROOKLYN - Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes Wednsday announced the sentencing of Christopher Aldorasi, 36, to nine to 27 years in prison, before Justice Albert Tomei.  He was convicted on April 28, on 20 of the 22 counts he was charged with, in a multi-million dollar human tissue theft conspiracy.

Aldorasi was convicted on the top charge of Enterprise Corruption, a Class-B Felony. Other charges Aldorasi was convicted of included Falsification of Business Records in the First Degree, Grand Larceny in the Third Degree and Reckless Endangerment in the Second Degree.

Aldorasi and four codefendants, Michael Mastromarino, 44; Joseph Nicelli, 52; and Lee Cruceta, 35, were all charged in February 2006, in a 122-count indictment, with orchestrating a large-scale, criminal enterprise, in which tissues were harvested from people who either never consented before they died, to be donors, or whose medical conditions or ages would have prevented them from donating tissue. Those tissues were then sold to medical companies for use in surgical transplants, such as bone and skin grafts.

Mastromarino pleaded guilty in March and will be sentenced June 27, to 18 to 54 years in prison. Cruceta pleaded guilty and testified against Aldorasi. He will be sentenced at a later date. Nicelli’s case is still pending.