The Dentist
Michael Mastromarino once was a dentist with a thriving Manhattan practice. Described as a handsome guy with a beautiful wife and family, he had a promising career and good reputation. But the doctor became addicted to drugs and soon lost his lucrative practice. Now he has to find a new way to make money.

The Tissue Trade
Mastromarino turns to the tissue trade... a worldwide multi-billion dollar business. He's long familiar with the need for human tissue to repair knees, hips and spinal discs. He knows the business and the loopholes that allow suppliers to make big money. Mastromarino creates a body harvesting operation.

The Dark Corner of Commerce
He sets up shop in a Brooklyn, NY funeral home. His plan is to harvest skin, bone and tendons from corpses and sell the parts to biotech companies. But there's a problem. Family members of the deceased do not want to donate their loved ones' tissue. Mastromarino decides to work outside the law. He plunders a thousand bodies selling the parts for four million dollars.

American Greed profiles a story of greed beyond the grave!