NEW YORK ( CNN ) -- One of the sweeping criminal complaints unveiled Thursday in New Jersey against 44 public officials and others includes a New York man accused of trying to arrange the private sale of a kidney from a donor in Israel . Levy Izhak Rosenbaum , who lives in Brooklyn and is not a licensed physician or medical professional , faces charges of acting as a human organ broker . He offered to obtain a kidney for an undercover FBI agent and a confidential witness working for authorities , the criminal complaint says . The price was $ 160,000 . `` I am what you call a matchmaker , '' Rosenbaum is quoted as saying at a July 13 meeting with the two undercover agents . The undercover FBI agent told Rosenbaum one of her uncles needed a kidney because he had been on dialysis for two years and on a transplant list at a Philadelphia hospital , the complaint says . The first meeting took place at Rosenbaum 's home on February 18 , 2008 , three days after the confidential witness contacted Rosenbaum by telephone , the document says . At that meeting , the complaint alleges , Rosenbaum said he could obtain a kidney for $ 150,000 . He later raised the price to $ 160,000 . `` I 'm doing this a long time , '' the complaint says Rosenbaum told the two agents . He then added : `` Let me explain to you one thing . It 's illegal to buy or sell organs . ... So you can not buy it . What you do is , you 're giving a compensation for the time . '' At their last meeting , on July 13 , Rosenbaum said he had been arranging kidney sales for 10 years , the complaint says . Asked how many transplants he had brokered , Rosenbaum is said to have responded , `` Quite a lot . ... Quite a lot . '' Rosenbaum also told the agents he had brokered a transplant two weeks before their meeting , the document says . According to the complaint , the undercover FBI agent called a person who was the recipient of a kidney brokered by Rosenbaum , who had provided the telephone number as a reference . The person , a New Jersey-area resident identified in the complaint as Recipient 2 , had paid cash for the kidney a little more than a year before the February 2009 call . The surgery was performed at a hospital outside the New Jersey area . Asked about the donor 's motive , the kidney recipient replied , `` I guess he needed the money , '' according to the complaint . All of the donors `` come from Israel , '' Rosenbaum is alleged to have said . The price had gone up to $ 160,000 , he said , because `` it 's hard to get people , '' noting that Israel had passed laws prohibiting the sale of human organs , the complaint states . The agents had already paid $ 10,000 and were told to bring another $ 70,000 at a meeting scheduled for this week . `` I prefer you do it with cash , '' the complaint quotes Rosenbaum as saying . The remaining $ 80,000 would be due `` when I get the donor in the hospital , check them out , '' the complaint says .
Levy Izhak Rosenbaum offered to get kidney for undercover agent , complaint says . `` I am what you call a matchmaker , '' he is quoted as telling agents . Rosenbaum accused of charging $ 160,000 for kidney coming from Israel . Rosenbaum said he has arranged kidney sales for 10 years , complaint says .