People who needed kidneys got them. People who were adults freely sold them. There’s a crime involved here?
Government bureaucrats didn’t get the money
It’s a crime, but it shouldn’t be. Thousands of people die in America every year because we do not allow people to voluntarily provide kidneys to others for money.
In a lot of cases, yes. They’re recruiting desperate poor people in India, promising them safe and professional care, and them dumping them back on the streets with no follow-up care, sometimes permanently disabling or even lethal complications, and very often a lot less money than they’d been promised.
You hear somebody paid $150,000 for a kidney, and you think the seller must have gotten a big chunk of that, but often it’s just a few hundred dollars, while the rest goes to bribe officials to look the other way, and to a fat profit for brokers like Mr. Rosenbaum.