It probably seemed exciting to those of you not intimately familiar in the ways of Jews from the Garden State but this thing really didn’t elicit much more than a NBD from us this morning. Money-laundering? Rabbis? Shady politicians? Welcome to my childhood. Now, our interest has been piqued, not so much because of the dead bodies but the notion that you could make an entire career out of peddling this shit:

The probe also involves the trafficking of body parts, according to a person familiar with the matter. One of the individuals who was arrested Thursday morning is an alleged organ dealer, this person said.

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Comments (54)

  1. Posted by NakedShort | July 23, 2009 at 12:40 PM

    Its only a matter of time before the Jobs connection to the organ dealer is discovered.

  2. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:42 PM

    Greg is officially worth more dead than alive. Where do we go from here?

  3. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:42 PM

    The market always finds a way around regulation.

  4. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:42 PM

    @1 yes! hadn’t even thought of that.

  5. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:42 PM

    What’s better than roses on my piano?
    Tulips on my organ!

  6. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:43 PM

    @1 I have no idea what you’re talking about.
    -mock turtleneck

  7. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:44 PM

    Der terk er ergans.

  8. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:45 PM

    Organ trafficking? Pssh. Call me when this gets interesting.
    -cg

  9. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:46 PM

    what do you think i’m doing when i’m “calling in” my scoops?
    -cg

  10. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:46 PM

    Parts? I buy the whole thing.
    - Jeffrey Epstein.

  11. Posted by Anal_yst | July 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM

    Those damn syrian jews that hang out @ Pier Village in Long Branch with the pointy beaks and nasally voices, clowns they are

  12. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM

    I’m penning the definitive book on this story.
    -chaz g

  13. Posted by merkin capital partners | July 23, 2009 at 12:49 PM

    Guys in my high school trafficked in body parts all the time. It was no big deal.
    CG

  14. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:49 PM

    This would never happen in Texas where people treat each other with honor, class and dignity.
    Col. Jessup

  15. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:49 PM

    @13 same here

  16. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:49 PM

    Why is the Dow shooting up this morning? anyone know?

  17. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:50 PM

    @anal_yst whoa there, no love for the J’s?

  18. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:55 PM

    Organ trafficking is for pussies.
    UT grad

  19. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:57 PM

    i always wondered when i saw the jews on the subway with the beards and the hats and the long coats in the middle of the fucking summertime, why the long fucking coats? does God (excuse me; G-D) want you to be sweaty and smelly? Nope. Just a convenient place to hide the body parts they are selling. Strange folks, let me tell you.

  20. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:58 PM
  21. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 12:59 PM

    @16 its called addiction. Heroine is a hell of a drug.

  22. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:00 PM

    @18 agreed.
    The truly insane (i.e. Aggies) go straight for the hardcore: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/breaking/6543550.html
    btw the unemployed db readers among us who can’t finance the blow anymore could always move the armpit of Texas and donate themselves to science

  23. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:01 PM

    I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on a few fresh adrenal glands to chew on during the day.
    Dr. Gonzo

  24. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:03 PM

    Is this as bad as duct-taping the severed head back on to your parakeet, Tweety, and then selling Tweety to a blind kid?

  25. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:06 PM

    Was the rabbi orchestrating the High Frequency Trading & Front Running of said organs?

  26. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:08 PM

    Jew Nersey?

  27. Posted by Anal_yst | July 23, 2009 at 1:17 PM

    @17
    I’m jewish, and I still very-much dislike those f*ckers and their matching ray bans and v-neck undershirts. Seriously, to go there and watch them is like watching primates

  28. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:20 PM

    @ 19- I have to agree, jews are strange people with old fashion customs

  29. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:23 PM

    Federal Prosecutor is the new killing it

  30. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:26 PM

    @28, 19 here… i should revise my rant because i sound like an overt racist; not that there’s anything wrong with that. (but i’m not; i’m a covert racist)
    I just don’t know the genus of the specific type of jew i’m talking about. Not all jews like the sensation of swampass.

  31. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:30 PM

    @19 – I’m Jewish and I also hate those Jews (Hassids) who wear the long smelly coats in the summer. It is unnecessary and just an old custom that they haven’t gotten rid of. Just saying, don’t generalize that “Jews” are strange folk.

  32. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:32 PM

    @31, you couldn’t wait negative 4 minutes?
    -19

  33. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:32 PM

    Can I get a larger pennis?
    -Dennis K.

  34. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:40 PM

    @ 31 , perhaps they small because the smuggle body parts under those coats.
    Anyway, arent these the people that have to put a sheet between them when having intercourse (and stick the dong through a hole in the sheet?)

  35. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:41 PM

    is it true that all jews wear a bag of jew-gold around their neck?

  36. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:41 PM

    nj is starting to sound like mexico

  37. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:41 PM

    I live in New Canaan. Can I get mesumadat up here?

  38. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:42 PM

    told you so.
    A. Hitler

  39. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:45 PM

    @ 37, I live in Greenwich, so up yours.

  40. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:50 PM

    Where can I rent a Thai boy dressed as Tickle Me Elmo for the evening?
    Dennis Kneale

  41. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:53 PM

    It’s the Sephardic Jews. Pure Evil. They don’t like other jews never mind non-J’s.

  42. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:01 PM

    did greg replace ep, i hope not

  43. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    @35. Yes. You don’t?

  44. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:11 PM

    You folks are mixing up Sephardic and Hassidic Jews. Can someone who’s less busy than me today pen a hopefully short and witty primer. Fuc$ it, let me try. I’ll be brief.
    Hassids: the smelly, hairy religious ones that wear the long coats and live in Williamsburgh and Boro Park.
    Sephards: middle eastern, dark skinned, look like Israeil pimps (slick hair, great bodies, tight jeans, hairy chests on the men, a lot of jewelry, Porsche convertibles, Porsche sunglasses to match). Make big bucks in the garment district. Live in Flatbush in big houses on small lots, summer in Deal, NJ.

  45. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:13 PM

    @44. No one is mixing up anyone w/ the sephardics. But why dont you let us know about the Oshkoshnazis while you are at it

  46. Posted by highlyconfident | July 23, 2009 at 2:18 PM

    Can I get a new nose?
    -L. Kudlow

  47. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:19 PM

    @20 Arrested: Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt, a Republican.
    Thanks for playing.
    California should use this as a model for bipartisanship.

  48. Posted by rollformer | July 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM

    @45: I believe the Oshkoshnazis wear brown cordoroy overalls while parading through city parks with some sort of military equipment called a “Radio Flyer”.
    I could be wrong though.

  49. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:25 PM

    45 That’s easy: Oshkoshnazis (sp?) (basically most Jews) maintain a noticible presence in places like Greenwich and Nantucket (not just Scarsdale and Short Hills like the old days); buy BMW’s, Audi’s and Benz’s like mad (as opposed to their grandparents who would rather die than have a German built ride); work on Wall Street and in law firms (not just in the garment district and in retail). Basically, normal everyday people who come from immigrant stock but have now assimilated into the American mainstream. Unlike their Syrian and Hassidic bretheren.
    Next question?

  50. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:34 PM

    @47 you are a douche

  51. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:24 PM

    Are they like the Illinois Nazis?

  52. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 4:23 PM

    I really hate illinois Nazis

  53. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 5:10 PM

    from http://www.smh.com.au
    at least Madoff didn’t take kidney’s… cash yes, body parts, no.
    “Although New Jersey is more famous for a history of Italian Mafia families, it was Jewish clergy who allegedly played a central role in the crime network.
    Authorities raided several synagogues and among those arrested was the chief rabbi of Syrian Jews in the United States.
    One rabbi, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, was charged with conspiring to broker the sale of a human kidney for transplant.
    Marra said Rosenbaum’s “business was to entice vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $US10,000 ($12,300), which he would turn around and sell for 160,000 dollars”.
    He’d allegedly been peddling kidneys for a decade.”

  54. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 6:09 PM

    @53 – Exactly. No way is Greg worth even close to $300k (net), but his kidneys are.
    -2

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