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Seven funeral homes plead guilty to illegal body part plundering

Seven funeral home directors linked to a scheme to plunder corpses and sell the body parts for transplants have secretly pleaded guilty to undisclosed charges.

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said that a grand jury voted to bring a new indictment in the case that adds allegations involving funeral homes in New York City and Rochester since evidence shows that many more funeral directors were involved. (USA Today)