I don't think that any laws were broken.
However, the bad press is probably the bigger story.
It's illegal to alter treatment to accommodate obtaining tissue to sell....and both pp butchers, nocatola and 'i wanna lamboughini' described doing just that.
To which law do you refer?
You know that she specifically states it is illegal in the video but is not averse to making the suggestion to the doctor, right?
I love the whole "lowballing" part of the conversation. Especially the part where she says she wants a Lamborghini.
And therein is the problem. This really shows the intent of turning a profit. Not once do I see any exploration of the actual costs associated with PP for the collection. That is completely ignored. Instead they are looking at compensation in general. That lends a LOT of credence to the idea that this is an illegal sale. Further, the fact that she is utterly ignorant of the price makes no sense at all. This is NOT something that would be ‘negotiated.’ PP should know what it costs to collect and store the specimens and charge that amount according to law. Any negotiation would be irrelevant as that only relates to profit.
There is a problem on the other side though – these are supposed to be high level employees – not your general ground worker – and the compensation rates we are talking about are rather low. A hundred bucks a specimen for a hundred specimen a year is only going to net around 10 grand minus expenses. That hardly warrants anyone of any real power within the company to negotiate the terms. The question then is why they are having this conversation with these people and are they really trying to garner profit from these sales. It certainly sounds like to from the tape but it also seems rather like they are dealing with low numbers.