The Kidney Guy
Levy-Itzhak Rosenbaum
Levy Rosenbaum was known as the man to go to in New York for those who could not get onto the kidney transplant list. Short and a little overweight, with a full gray beard, Rosenbaum had a very heavy European accent that was almost unintelligible on the FBI wiretaps.
Dwek called him in mid-February of 2008. The story being spun was that Solomon had a secretary with a desperately ill uncle who needed a transplant to live. The "secretary" was actually an FBI agent from the Atlantic City office and the two drove together from New Jersey to Rosenbaum's home in Brooklyn.
They immediately got down to business.
“I’m doing this a long time,” Rosenbaum said carefully, his words recorded by Dwek. “Let me explain to you one thing. It’s illegal to buy or sell organs. So you cannot buy it. What you do is, you’re giving a compensation for the time— whatever—he’s not working.”
The key, he said, was to concoct some kind of relationship between donor and recipient...
Read an excerpt in the NY Post>>
Levy-Itzhak Rosenbaum
Dwek called him in mid-February of 2008. The story being spun was that Solomon had a secretary with a desperately ill uncle who needed a transplant to live. The "secretary" was actually an FBI agent from the Atlantic City office and the two drove together from New Jersey to Rosenbaum's home in Brooklyn.
They immediately got down to business.
“I’m doing this a long time,” Rosenbaum said carefully, his words recorded by Dwek. “Let me explain to you one thing. It’s illegal to buy or sell organs. So you cannot buy it. What you do is, you’re giving a compensation for the time— whatever—he’s not working.”
The key, he said, was to concoct some kind of relationship between donor and recipient...
Read an excerpt in the NY Post>>