<p>Gets $100,000 “donations”</p>
<p>[Health</a> | Report: Gangsters gave $200,000 to UCLA following transplants | Seattle Times Newspaper](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2004450613_liver01.html]Health”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2004450613_liver01.html)</p>
<p>I’d like to know why Japanese gangsters are so prone to liver failure.</p>
<p>^^Too much Sake…</p>
<p>Given the shortage of transplant organs and the fact that Americans are dying due to not being able to get them why are we providing foreigners with them anyway?</p>
<p>"LOS ANGELES — A Japanese gang boss and another suspected gangster who had liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center each donated $100,000 to the hospital soon after their surgeries, according to a published report.</p>
<p>The donations came from two of four Japanese gang figures who received liver transplants at a time when several hundred Los Angeles-area patients died while awaiting transplants, according to the Los Angeles Times.</p>
<p>The newspaper published stories about the transplants and the donations Thursday and Friday.</p>
<p>All four men are now are barred from returning to the United States because of their gang affiliations, criminal records, or both.</p>
<p>According to the Los Angeles Times, a donation of $100,000 came from Tadamasa Goto, 65, who leads a gang called the Goto-gumi.</p>
<p>A plaque on an entryway to a surgery office in the hospital reads, “In grateful recognition of the Goto Research Fund established through the generosity of Mr. Tadamasa Goto.”</p>
<p>UCLA confirmed the amount of the donation and acknowledged it received a separate $100,000 donation from another man who had suspected gang affiliations, the newspaper reported. He donated in 2002, the year of his transplant. The newspaper did not identify that man because it was unable to reach him or his attorney."</p>
<p>Medicine, like all the other professions, is now all about the $$$ (yeah, I know there are exceptions).</p>