The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Japanese yakuza received liver transplants at UCLA. The most prominent transplant recipient was Tadamasa Goto, who has been barred from entering the U.S. because of his criminal history. The four surgeries were done between 2000 and 2004 at a time of pronounced organ scarcity. In each of those years, more than 100 patients died awaiting liver transplants in the Greater Los Angeles region.

Watch this news report about the liver transplants.