TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - January 6, 2009 State Attorney General Anne Milgram said Tuesday that Robert J.
Maitner Jr. and Stephen K. Finley both agreed to the permanent
license revocations.
Maitner Jr., who pleaded guilty in New York to attempted
enterprise corruption, owned Kiernan Funeral Home and Maitner
Cremation Services in Belleville.
Finley owns Berardinelli Forest Hill Memorial Home, Cremation at
a Low Cost, and Funeraria Santa Cruz in Newark.
Finley has not been charged, but according to prosecutors and
court filings he plans to enter a guilty plea to a charge of theft
of human remains.
The scandal emerged in February 2006 when ringleader Michael
Mastromarino, who operated Biomedical Tissue Services, and others
were accused of cutting up corpses from funeral homes in New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania without relatives' consent.
The often-diseased parts were then sold to medical companies for
transplants.
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