Organ Trade

Tadamasa Goto

Head of the Goto-gumi yakuza gang

He's barred from entering the U.S.

The aging piece of shit has hepatitis and needs a liver transplant

The FBI gets him a U.S. visa in return for info

He gets his transplant but delivers nothing of significance

Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil, executive chairman of UCLA's surgery department, performs the transplant

Busuttil also performs liver transplants for three other yakuza

Goto was in the U.S. for two months

In the same year, 186 people in the LA region died waiting for a liver

How did Goto get on the UCLA waiting list?

How did he jump the queue?

Japanese gang figures got new livers at UCLA

May 30, 2008

https://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/30/local/me-ucla30

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fbi-helped-japanese-gangster-to-have-life-saving-transplant-in-us-837427.html

https://www.japansubculture.com/yakuza-and-livers-and-the-history-of-organ-transplants-in-japan/