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San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, August 31, 1992
The settlement came after three weeks of testimony in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn, in which Scarpa said that Dr. Angelito Sebollena, a surgeon at Victory Memorial Hospital, had given him a transfusion with HIV-tainted blood. The transfusion took place during ulcer surgery in 1986.
Newsday reported that the hospital agreed to pay $200,000 and that the surgeon agreed to pay $100,000, although the amount was not made public.
At the hospital, Scarpa, who is now 64, received blood donated by family and friends. None of the blood, including that of a friend, Paul Mele, a reputed mob underling, was screened. Mele, a weight-lifter who was believed to have used steroid injections, later died of AIDS.
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