Mario Gallucci Quotations

We absolutely, vehemently deny the charges. He was not doing anything illegal or wrong when he harvested.

He feels sorry for these people, that they're living this nightmare. But he also knows they were sterilized. If they weren't, then that was the fault of the distributors who were sterilizing the tissue and cleaning it.

He's a family man, he works, he goes home, and from what I know, he's not a social butterfly.

He did everything he was supposed to do, the right way.

The fact that the prosecutor hasn't told me what they are and wants him in custody before he tells me leads me to believe it includes state racketeering charges.

It's a tragedy. There were no winners here.

It's $500 to use the funeral home, $250 for a body delivery, and another $250 to dispose of the body, to get it ready after the tissue is recovered.

Nothing wrong with it at all. It's the standard fee set by the American Association of Tissue Banks. My client has nothing to hide.

If you had half of your face whacked off in an accident, and you lost your jaw and your nose, he'd put you back together.

If you're told by the funeral home that it's a 45-year-old woman and you show up and she's 90 years old, there's a problem.

His intention was to -- and still is to -- harvest tissue and provide it to tissue banks. What he has done is legal.

He said that it was a tragedy that he did not deserve receiving.