$265,000 number Clinton's Speech AdvaMed RTI Biologics Tutogen
A seemingly small but interesting lead of mine just turned out to be a whale of a catch. Hillary Clinton was paid 265,000 dollars by AdvaMed for a single speech. It turns out a member of AdvaMed is RTI Surgical which, while then known as RTI Biologics, illegally harvested dead bodies for bone marrow, organs, and tissue from the Ukraine to sell for a profit. Tutogen was their German division that was caught also using tissue stolen from dead corpses in the Ukraine. Many of the corpses they used also were riddled with diseases and negatively hurt the people who got transplants of their organic materials. It should be noted, Hillary took these peoples money after all this had already come out about them.
Haiti
RTI Biologics also donated allografts to Haiti after the earthquake in 2010, probably to try to get some more illegal tissue from there.
BioFlorida PhRma Shkreli
But there is more! I have discovered a group that encompasses Tavistock, RTI Surgical and other shady groups. It is called BioFlorida. While it admittedly has a ton of members and many of the lower paying ones are probably honest businesses their premiere member list reads like a whose-who of pharma corruption. One is PhRma whose president Stephen Ubl used to work for AdvaMed. When PhRma went after Martin Shkreli the "bad boy" of pharma got pissed off. Apparently even he thought that he didn't hold a candle to the likes of BioFlorida members like PhRma and Amgen.
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2impendingdoom ago
TUTOGEN
18 Sep 2009
"A German medical firm is under investigation after accusations that it paid a middleman to cannibalise corpses in Eastern Europe so they could be sold to hospitals in the West.
Tutogen, a German subsidiary of America's RTI Biologics, is alleged to have bought up the bones, cartilage, tendons, skin, eye corneas, and heart valves from thousands of corpses for implantation in living Western patients.
The value of a single corpse to the medical industry can be worth over £150,000 and the gruesome market has sometimes attracted unscrupulous and criminal operators. The trade is worth £600 million in the United States every year.
Lena Krat, Ukrainian woman, has accused Tutogen of profiting from her father's body after buying his remains from a Ukrainian company which had misled her into signing a consent form.
"I was so upset that I couldn't think clearly," she told Der Spiegel. "If I had known that so much is cut out, I would never have given my consent."
Joseph Düsel, a senior state prosecutor in Bamberg, told The Daily Telegraph that his office was investigating the allegations. "The state prosecutor is at this time exploring whether to open a formal preliminary proceeding against the responsible parties at the firm Tutogen because of breaches of the transplantation and medicines laws," he said....
YingYangMom ago
From this article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/6206247/German-firm-investigated-over-body-parts-trade.html