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Subject: FBI PUTS SQUEEZE ON STARLETS AND THEIR BOOTLEG IMPLANTS!

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> This mirrors what happened to our young Florida member.

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> FBI PUTS SQUEEZE ON STARLETS AND THEIR BOOTLEG IMPLANTS!

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> By MARK GROUBERT

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> HOLLYWOOD -- In a series of lightning-like raids, agents of the Federal

> Bureau of Investigation descended upon dozens of unlicensed plastic

> surgery centers

> throughout Hollywood to seize thousands upon thousands of counterfeit

> silicone-gel breast implants.

>

> A reliable law enforcement official revealed to Weekly World News that

> many of the illegal implant recipients who were waiting to undergo

> surgery " fought like tigresses " to

> prevent the G-men from seizing their counterfeit breasts.

>

> One actress actually fled a clinic with a pair of bootleg implants in

> her purse. The 22-year old woman, whose name was witheld, barricaded

> herself within her Los Feliz condo and

> was later talked into surrendering by an LAPD SWAT team commander

> without incident.

>

> Following orders handed down by the Food and Drug Administration, the

> FBI along with local law enforcement officials, scooped up the

> counterfeit breasts, most of which had been

> smuggled into the United States through Mexico. The substandard

> contraband was funneled into the U.S. by the use of " mules, " reported a

> local law enforcement official familiar

> with the investigation.

>

> " The silicone-based implants in no way reflected the current

> state-of-the-art FDA approved saline breast implants, " claimed an FDA

> spokesperson.

>

> " These were pre-1993 silicone gel models. We thought they were

> completely off the market. I guess there are still plenty of them South

> of the Border. " added the spokesperson.

>

> The 1993 restriction was spurred by the concern that silicone gel

> leaking into the body could be harmful, and by the inability of the

> manufacturers to provide adequate safety data on

> their implants.

>

> An unnamed Screen Actors Guild member informed Weekly World News' West

> Coast Bureau Desk that there has been a burgeoning underground marketing

> of the cheaper

> silicone models in recent years. " This has been a taboo Hollywood secret

> since the early '90s, " claimed the SAG member.

>

> Simultaneous raids were carried out throughout the Hollywood Hills and

> the San Valley at the exclusive homes of actresses and models

> who, according to unnamed

> sources, were " extremely uncooperative. "

>

> DiVincetis, a talent agent for two of the stunned starlets,

> expressed the outrage of Tinseltown. " These girls worked damn hard for

> those breasts. They had no idea they were

> counterfeit. They need them for work. How would you like it if someone

> came to your job and kicked the shovel out of your hand? "

>

> The FBI refused all comment on what they termed " an ongoing

> investigation " into what has now been dubbed " Operation Cleavage, " by

> the movie industry bible, The Hollywood

> Reporter.

>

> A Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson said, " The counterfeit

> breasts will be de-stroyed at our regular demolition site in San

> Bernadino. We'll monitor the situation very

> closely to make certain each and every one of the dangerous counterfeit

> breasts are eradicated from the face of the earth. "

>

>

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> Published on: March 14, 2002

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