nydailynews.com - 1/8/2009
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DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Updated Thursday, January 8th 2009, 2:30 AM Richard Batista can live with his broken heart. He just can't bear his cheating wife living with his healthy kidney. The Long Island doctor wants the one-time love of his life to pay $1.5 million for the organ he bestowed on ...
usatoday.com - 1/8/2009
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usatoday.com —
Dr. Richard Batista, a surgeon at Nassau University
Medical Center, told reporters at his lawyer's Long Island...
office Wednesday that he decided to go public with his demand for kidney compensation because he has grown frustrated with the negotiations ...
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N.Y. man demands estranged wife pay him for kidney
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com - 1/8/2009
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Sure, that'll work. If not, he'll graciously accept
$1.5 million.A Long Island surgeon who donated a kidney...
to his wife wants it back - or $1.5 million in cash - because she cheated on him. Dr. Richard Batista said Wednesday he felt nothing but joy when he gave his wife, Dawnell, the lifesaving ...
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Doctor to Estranged Wife: Give Me My Kidney Back
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Doctor to Estranged Wife: Give Me My Kidney Back
JammieWearingFool —
Sure, that'll work . If not, he'll graciously accept $1.5 million. A Long Island surgeon who donated a kidney to his wife wants it back - or $1.5 million in cash - because she cheated on him. Dr. Richard Batista said Wednesday he felt nothing but joy when he gave his wife, Dawnell, the lifesaving organ transplant in 2001. "Theres no value you can put on an organ when it saves someone's life," Batista, 49, of Ronkonkoma, L.I., said at his lawyer's office. "There is no greater feeling on this planet." Yet Batista wants his estranged wife to pay a heavy price for cheating on him ...
Richard Batista, who donated a kidney and saved his wife's life and is now using that kidney as a bargaining chip in the divorce case.
Althouse —
The Long Island doctor would like you to know — with the help of The Daily News — what a saint he is... He fondly recalls a visit to her room on the day after surgery. "There was no greater feeling on this planet. As God is my witness, I felt as if I could put my arm around Jesus Christ. I was walking on a cloud."... and what a slut she was: "There's no deeper pain you can ever express than to be betrayed by the person you devoted your life to," Batista told reporters... "I saved her life. But the pain is unbearable." ...
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A man who donated his kidney to his wife eight years ago now wants it back after she cheated on him and filed for divorce. Richard Batista, a surgeon from Long Island, New York, wants either the organ back or $1.5 million.
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Overlawyered
The divorce between Dr. Richard Batista of Ronkonkoma, Long Island, New York, and his wife Dawn has taken an unfortunate turn with Dr. Batista’s demand that she return his left kidney, which he had donated to her in a transplant operation. (Or at least its fair market value) Experts ...
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