Associated Press: Levy Izhak Rosenbaum leaves federal court Wednesday in Trenton, N.J., after he was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for selling human kidneys for profit.
Black market sales net prison
Seconds before the anesthesia kicked in at the start of a 2008 surgery in a Minnesota hospital, Elahn Quick said he was no longer certain he wanted to sell his kidney. By then, it was too late.
“Before I finished the conversation, I was gone,” Quick testified Wednesday in federal court in Trenton, N.J.
In the first criminal organ-trafficking case in the United States, Quick took the witness stand at the sentencing of Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, a Brooklyn man who pleaded guilty to brokering black market sales of human kidneys to three Americans.
After hearing Quick’s account of how Rosenbaum paid him $25,000 for a kidney, U.S. District Judge Anne Thompson sentenced Rosenbaum to 2 1/2 years in prison.
“It’s a kind of trading in human misery,” Thompson said of the black-market kidney trade. Rosenbaum “charged a fee” for kidneys while using “a complicated web of transactions” to finance his trade, she said. “He corrupted himself.”
The sentencing marks the final chapter in a first-of-its-kind case that culminated with Rosenbaum’s arrest in July 2009.
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