He said it was very odd that the act of giving someone a kidney is considered "wonderful, a noble act" - yet as soon as an exchange of money is involved it becomes "so outrageous as to be intolerable".
In the annals of unwarranted federal criminal prosecutions, it would be tough to find a more outrageous case than that of Idaho farmer Cory King, who stands convicted of felony violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act.