A guy from Florida and one of his sons accused of promoting a “miracle” fake therapy for the Covid-19 who is actually a poisonous money laundering agent were arrested tuesday in Colombia and about to be extradited to the United States, marking one of the types of scams perpetrated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Mark Grenon, 62, of Bradenton, Florida, and three of his sons allegedly sold thousands of bottles of what he calls “Miracle Mineral Solution” through a deceptive entity called Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, along with the Food and Drug Administration, gained reports of hospitalizations and even deaths from consumption of the product.
In July, the four men were charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to violate federal food and cosmetic laws, and criminal contempt.
In a series of tweets pronouncing the arrest, Colombia’s attorney general noted that the father and son “served as non-secular guides to a foreign congregation to sell their fans the “miracle solution,” adding that they were or were promoting the “potion” in the country. . and coordinate shipments to the United States and African countries.
According to prosecutors, the solution is an addition of sodium and water chlorite that, when ingested, becomes a poisonous bleach called chlorine dioxide, and the Colombian government claims this has resulted in seven Americans’ deaths.
Several coronavirus scams have subsidized the pandemic, adding that of the notorious right-wing conspiracy theorist and InfoWars founder, Alex Jones, who won a warning letter in April from the FDA ordering him to avoid marketing products like SuperSilver whitening toothpaste. as a cure for coronavirus.
The FDA, as well as the Federal Trade Commission, had already issued warnings to several corporations about alleged coronavirus remedies in March, and Amazon was also forced to remove more than one million products that claim to treat the virus until the end of February, before the United States. States declared a national emergency.
Lately there is no cure for Covid-19 and a vaccine is available in months at the earliest.
After President Trump at a briefing at the White House in April advised the option of curing the Covid-19 by injecting disinfectants into the body, Reckitt Benckiser, brands of family cleaning products Dettol and Lysol, issued a warning to consumers to ingest their products.
39%. That’s the percentage of U.S. adults who reported performing a “high-risk practice,” such as inhaling disinfectants and washing the completion and vegetables with bleach, according to a June survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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