Do you have documentation to refute these claims; email sent in late 2002 (around the time you were paroled?), email sent May 3, 2003 asking for compensation; subsequent disappearance?
Note the date of the email, June 13, 2003, from Diane Langton, who offered her kidney free of charge. How does that fit in your timetable?
Asking questions and debunking is a big part of FR. There are plenty of fine researchers here. Many, myself included, don't publicly post all they have. Just an FYI.
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‘HE LIVED EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY’ - JIM WILSON JR., WHO RECEIVED A KIDNEY FROM AN ‘ANGEL’ IN 2004, HAS DIED
Post-Standard, The (Syracuse, NY) - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Author: Catie O'Toole Staff writer
Nearly four years has passed since a stranger gave Jim Wilson Jr. a kidney and saved his life.
When he died Monday, his kidney was still functioning.
Kathleen Wilson said her son thought he was coming down with the flu and had been lying down most of the day.
“He didn't feel good,” she said Tuesday.
Things turned for the worse.
Jim Wilson Sr. went to call 911 and their son went into cardiac arrest, Kathleen Wilson said.
James J. Wilson was 25.
“He lived every minute of every day,” his father said.
Jim Jr. was born with one kidney . It kept him going for the first 18 years of his life. He rarely missed school, and even felt fine the day a school nurse took his blood pressure and realized something was wrong. Go see a doctor, she told him. Right away.
Over three years, while his family searched for a donor, Jim Jr.’s condition worsened to the point he needed daily dialysis.
Jim Jr. was put on the national kidney transplant list in November 2001, five months after doctors diagnosed him with end stage renal disease.
Today, there are 147 people waiting for either a kidney or a kidney and pancreas transplant at University Hospital in Syracuse, said Laura Squadrito, director of programs at the National Kidney Foundation of Central New York.
The Wilsons, who live in Oswego, did what they could to speed up the process. A family friend started a Web site and Jim Wilson Sr. hung several hundred posters in stores, banks and other places, asking someone to donate a kidney to save his son's life.
In late 2002, a man from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, sent an e-mail to the family. The man, who called himself Lucas Smith , said he was 23 years old and had emigrated from Russia five years earlier. He had seen the Web site and, Smith said, he wanted to help.
The Wilsons stopped searching for a donor. Smith passed all of the medical, physical and psychological tests. They thought he was going to save their son's life.
Then, on May 3, 2003, Smith sent Jim Wilson Sr. an e-mail saying he wanted to be compensated for donating his kidney .
Wilson said they would pay his airfare, but because it was illegal to receive money for an organ donation, they wouldn't give him any other cash.
Five months after holding out a lifeline, Lucas Smith disappeared.
Jim Wilson Sr. called the Cedar Rapids police.
On June 13, 2003, Diane Langton e-mailed the Wilsons. She had read about what happened and wanted to help.
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Hi Maggief,
This kidney thing is a side attraction put forth by Obama fan boys.
This thread isn’t about selling kidneys. It’s about Obama and his having been born in Kenya and subsequently being ineligible to hold Office of US President. Instead of attacking the document there are some people that attack the with kidney story.
There is no “email” that you refer to. This was an online story, there is only a mention of an email. There never was such a thing.
Long story short. The young man (19 at the time) DID RECEIVE a kidney in 2004 from a donator in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The young man lived another 4 years with this kidney. He probably would have died before that if it wasn’t for the kidney he received in Cedar Rapids.
How many times do I have to repeat that I have NEVER been questioned by police of FBI about this???? Never went to jail or prison for this. The Wilson story was a fake, a desperate call for help! And it worked. A Cedar Rapids woman came forward and saved his life with her kidney.
Notice that the online articles stated that Lucas Smith was a Russian that had only been in the US for 5 years? What, do you think I put my best Russian accent on and fooled a team or doctors?
And all for $600??? Several months of testing for $600. What, do you want me to believe that was supposed to be a “deposit”, $600? Give me a break.
The police, the FBI and the US Attorney knows that the Wilson’s story didn’t add up. It was a publicity stunt to save their sons life, AND IT WORKED.
And I haven’t been ‘hiding” for the last 6 years. I’m in plain sight, the FBI could have arrested my at anytime.
So stop pretending like I killed someone.
Thank you.