On Capitol Hill, a Tennessee congressman named Al Gore introduced legislation banning such sales, and Utah senator Orrin Hatch sponsored similar legislation in the Senate. The National Organ Transplant Act became law in 1984, spelling out the prohibition, though leaving the issue somewhat vague: "It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive or otherwise transfer any human organ for valuable consideration for use in transplantation." No one had ever been prosecuted under the statute. If the prosecutor made a case, it was going to be a first.
[The relevant US attorney], Chris Christie did not authorize it right away. It took several months to get the US Attorney's office to sign off on the approach.
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The above quotations are from The Jersey Sting Chris Christie and the Most Brazen Case of Jersey-Style Corruption--Ever by Ted Sherman & Josh Margolin. Click here for other excerpts from The Jersey Sting Chris Christie and the Most Brazen Case of Jersey-Style Corruption--Ever by Ted Sherman & Josh Margolin. Click here for other excerpts by Orrin Hatch. Click here for other excerpts by other Governors.
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