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FBI probes claims of body part sales UTMB admits cadavers' ashes mixed in 'an unforgivable failure of oversight' By KEVIN MORAN Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle GALVESTON -- Federal agents are investigating allegations that an employee at the University of Texas Medical Branch illegally sold body parts for his own gain, an FBI spokesman said Monday. And, in what UTMB President Dr. John Stobo called "an unforgivable failure of oversight," officials at the medical school said they have discovered that the cremated remains of many people who willed their bodies to science were mixed. In a letter e-mailed to the medical...