Overview
- Committee chairs Jason Smith and David Schweikert ordered NJTO to produce records and arrange transcribed interviews with more than 30 executives and employees.
- A committee letter cites whistleblower accounts that a donor at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital showed signs of life during organ recovery and alleges President Carolyn Welsh pressed to continue until hospital staff stopped the procedure.
- Whistleblowers allege improper consent practices, including pressure on grieving families and reliance on Motor Vehicle Commission data even when donors had removed authorization.
- Lawmakers say NJTO engaged in out‑of‑sequence organ allocation tied to quid‑pro‑quo arrangements, skipping hundreds of waitlisted patients with dozens of deaths in one cited instance.
- The panel alleges document destruction and data manipulation, disputes NJTO’s denial of a single‑day discard of 100 pancreata shown in internal records, and warns noncompliance could trigger subpoenas and broader legal or tax‑exempt repercussions.