Kidney-selling scheme believed to be first in U.S.

By David Porter and Carla K. Johnson / The Bulletin
July 25, 2009

NEWARK, N.J. — Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn called himself a “matchmaker,” but his business wasn’t romance. Instead, authorities say, he brokered the sale of black-market kidneys, buying organs from vulnerable people from Israel for $10,000 and selling....

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