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The Bone Harvesting Conspiracy with Michael Vecchione – Bonus

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6623 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins brings you the best in mob history with his unique perception of the mafia. He interviews former Brooklyn prosecutor Michael Vecchione about the case of the disgraced dentist who started a bone harvesting business. If you ever got a dental implant, you know the dentist uses a bone graft to prepare for the implant. This fact creates a market in human bone. Michael Vecchione tells about a case he worked on where he investigated and prosecuted a dentist who was robbing human bodies to get bone for resale. Subscribe to the Podcast for a new gangster story every week. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Remember to click on www.BetterHelp.com/gangland for 10% off Support the Podcast. Click here if you want to listen to the new podcast called The Set.  Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwireClick here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup  click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here.  To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here. Please give me a review and help others find the podcast. Donate to the podcast. Click here!

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0:00.0

Hey guys, this is a bonus episode. I continued on my recording with Michael Vetchione talking about

0:07.7

some of these other books. I separated this next clip out because it's Michael Vetchione

0:14.6

telling a really interesting case he worked. Just an overview. There's a dentist out there that got in trouble with drugs and lost

0:23.5

his dental license. So he went into the business of getting bones to sell to a company that then

0:31.7

resold them to dentist who needed a little bit of bone to do a tooth implant. If you ever got a tooth implant,

0:41.4

which are really expensive, I found out, they need to graft a little bone on there and they

0:45.9

buy bone from a company. Well, this guy, it's a crazy-ass story. I'll tell you what. Listen to this

0:53.1

story. I know it's not mob related, but you will be entertained and astounded that this all

0:59.2

happened and how it went down.

1:01.2

And just before it starts, I'm going to have a little clip from the set.

1:04.1

Give that podcast a shot.

1:06.7

I would suit up in my uniform and you're going out on patrol.

1:13.4

What are we going to do tonight?

1:15.5

Well, we're going to rob some drug dealers.

1:18.4

And I know how to do it really well.

1:22.7

Listen to and follow The Set, an Odyssey Originals documentary podcast series, available wherever you get your shows.

1:29.8

I'm not a bad guy, man, but I loved being that dirty motherfucker.

1:34.9

The end of Crooked Brooklyn, the last chapter, is about something which, all of this stuff

1:41.0

kind of boggles your mind. This story boggles my mind more than ever.

1:47.0

Assistant DA comes into me one morning and says, Mike, I have a woman and a detective in my office.

1:53.6

And the woman is here because she just purchased a funeral home in Brooklyn for, I forgot how much money. And when she was checking the books

2:04.8

on the, on the, uh, the sale, you know, the funeral homes books, she realized that there were

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