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Japanese Mob Boss Gave $100K to UCLA

Goto rewards hospital after controversial kidney transplant

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted May 31, 2008 4:01 PM CDT

(Newser) – Suspected Japanese mob boss Tadmasa Goto donated $100,000 to UCLA just months after getting a liver transplant there, the Los Angeles Times reports. Goto was treated in 2001, a year when 186 people died waiting for livers in the LA area alone. The school... Read full story »

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