NYC funeral home shipped Queens grandmother's body to wrong country to rot: lawsuit

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NYC funeral home shipped Queens grandmother's body to wrong country to rot: lawsuit
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and exploiting families has now shipped the remains of a 96-year-old Queens grandmother to the wrong country where she rotted so badly it looked as if her skin was “falling off,” a new lawsuit alleges.

Carmen Maldonado’s grief-stricken children say the 96-year-old woman’s body was sent to the wrong country by RG Ortiz Funeral Home.“The hands of the body, the skin was falling off, so they had to wrap them in saran wrap,” the family’s lawyer, Phil Rizzuto, told The Post on Thursday.

NJ woman sues funeral home claiming father’s remains were never buried and sat in basement for 31 years But on May 26, Maldonado’s casket showed up in the wrong Latin American country, according to the complaint. The lawsuit comes just months after the funeral home chain was forced to cough up hundreds of thousands of dollars to customers for alleged predatory and deceptive practices after reaching an agreement with the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.

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