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  2. Goto-gumi - Wikipedia

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    In 2001 the FBI's representative in Tokyo arranged for Tadamasa Goto, then the head of the Goto-gumi, to receive a liver transplant in the United States in return for a $100,000 donation to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and information about Yamaguchi-gumi operations in the U.S. [7] This was done without prior consultation of the Japanese National Police Agency.

  3. Tadamasa Goto - Wikipedia

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    In 2001, after dealing with the FBI, he entered the United States to receive a liver transplant, and gave a $100,000 donation to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. [12] Goto got his new liver, from a queue-jumping transplant, [ 13 ] in a year when 186 people in the Los Angeles region died waiting for a liver.

  4. Fertilizer Fund scam - Wikipedia

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    The Sandiganbayan's fourth division, in a resolution promulgated on October 27, 2023, but made public the following month, granted the motions filed by Napoles, by a president of non-government organization Philippine Social Development Foundation Inc., as well as by four former officials of the Department of Agriculture–Caraga, to dismiss ...

  5. Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China

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    Liver transplants performed annually at the Tianjin Orient Organ Transplant Centre, 1998–2004 The number of organ transplants performed in China grew rapidly beginning in 2000. [ 87 ] This timeframe corresponds with the onset of the persecution of Falun Gong, when tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners were being sent to Chinese labor ...

  6. New liver cancer treatment ‘effective in 90% of patients’

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    In a study published in the journal Melanoma Research, the team found liver cancers were controlled in 88.9% of patients who had received chemosaturation therapy, with 62% of them surviving for a ...

  7. Gilead gets US FDA approval for inflammatory liver disease drug

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    The American Liver Foundation estimates that about 65 out of every 100,000 women in the U.S. have PBC. Livdelzi's list price is $12,606 per 30 days of therapy. Rival drug, Iqirvo, from Ipsen costs ...

  8. List of organ transplant donors and recipients - Wikipedia

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    She was on the transplant list prior to her diagnosis with breast cancer, and was removed from the list while being treated as is standard procedure. She was placed back on the list after her treatment was completed, and died from complications of the transplant surgery. April 3, 1996 20 days [citation needed] Steven Cojocaru (1965–)

  9. Modest needs? Charity founder accused of embezzling $2.5 ...

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    The charity was called Modest Needs but federal prosecutors who filed charges against its founder say his weren't. Rather, prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan say, Modest Needs ...