A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 dead bodies in a decrepit building and sent grieving families fake ashes received the maximum possible sentence of 20 years in prison on Friday, for cheating customers and defrauding the federal government out of nearly $900,000 in COVID-19 aid.
Jon Hallford, owner of Return to Nature Funeral Home, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in federal court last year. Separately, Hallford pleaded guilty to 191 counts of corpse abuse in state court and will be sentenced in August.
At Friday’s hearing, federal prosecutors sought a 15-year sentence and Hallford’s attorney asked for 10 years. Judge Nina Wang said that although the case focused on a single fraud charge, the circumstances and scale of Hallford’s crime and the emotional damage to families warranted the longer sentence.
you can’t harvest organs from dead people, just brain dead people still under artificial life support
That’s only true if they’re going to be put in living people. There is a huge black market for person parts.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_morgue_case
You reminded me of a creepy thkng that happened in my country, Colombia, around 30 years ago:
A university’s medical departament was found to be attracting homeless people by promising them trash (it’s common here for homeless people to get money by recycling trash), and then murdering them inside the university. Medical students would then, unkowingly, do their practices with said bodies. Some organs were also allegedly trafficked.
There is no exact data of how many people died like this, but an estimation is around 50. Aditionally, basically all of the people behind this faced no repercusion.
Here’s an English notice about this: www.infobae.com/en/2022/03/27/this-was-the-massacre-of-a-group-of-street-dwellers-inside-a-university-in-barranquilla
I didn’t… want to know that
they are still useful for research, medical colleges, military so they can blow it up.