(10-25-10) In July 2009, I was identified as the "whistle-blower" in the arrest by New Jersey FBI agents of a Brooklyn organs trafficker, an orthodox rabbi, Isaac Rosenbaum,1,2 whose unorthodox business activities I had uncovered several years earlier while investigating an international network of outlaw transplant surgeons, their brokers, lawyers, kidney hunters, insurance and travel agents, safe house operators, and "baby sitters" to mind sick and anxious international "transplant tourists."
The particular criminal network, in which Rosenbaum played a bit part, originated in Israel through a "company" run by a well-known crime boss Ilan Peri, who had over the years established shady transplant deals and kidney transplant outlets and connections in Turkey, Moldova, the Ukraine, Brazil, Germany, South Africa, the Philippines, China, Kosovo, Azerbaijan, Columbia, and the United States.3
The arrests, amidst gunfire in the operating rooms, of two of Ilan Peri’s transplant associates – Dr.