Man who wrote to Trump peddling toxic bleach as miracle coronavirus cure charged with federal crime

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Daily News

A Florida man who had sent a letter to President Trump peddling toxic bleach as a fake coronavirus cure has been arrested by the commander-in-chief’s own Justice Department, an ironic turn of events that comes two months after the nation’s leader suggested the ludicrous method as a possible COVID-19 treatment.

Mark Grenon, the self-described archbishop of a fraudulent “non-religious church,” marketed the potentially lethal “Miracle Mineral Solution” as a groundbreaking coronavirus cure and directed his customers to ingest it by mouth, authorities said Wednesday.

Grenon, 62, and his three adult sons — Jonathan, 34, Jordan, 26, and Joseph, 32 — were charged with criminal contempt, conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to violate the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

The Bradenton residents have long marketed MMS as a miracle cure-all for dozens of other serious diseases and disorders, including cancer, Alzheimer’s, autism, multiple sclerosis, and HIV/AIDS, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-florida-man-who-peddled-bleach-as-miracle-coronavirus-cure-arrested-20200708-w4b4ax3h6rgwbpg5pzt5wbm66u-story.html

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. Another scumbag grifter goes down.

What are the odds that Dump mentions a pardon for this clown?

[lagomorph777]

3. Well, evidently he forgot to make one of his payments to Trump for touting it.

If he had kept up with the payments, Trump wouldn't have ordered Barr to arrest him.

[Ftrump]

9. It's too soon for the pardon route. He should first go with the, "I was joking" defense. eom

[KatyaR]

2. Does it qualify as a "cure" if it kills you?

I don't know....

[NurseJackie]

4. Perhaps in Brazil.

[SergeStorms]

5. And in Trump's diseased mind.

n/t

[keithbvadu2]

11. Maybe they could peddle it as a cure for a diseased mind?

Maybe they could peddle it as a cure for a diseased mind?

Always new opportunities.

[stillcool]

7. in the time of COVID and Trump..

that's an interesting concept.

[dempls]

6. Florida man

Is Trump next then?

[mpcamb]

18. Yeah. Sounds like they got the wrong guy.

Only one of them put it on the airwaves for millions to hear.

[louis-t]

8. Is being dead the same thing as being 'cured'?

Asking for a friend.

[Roy Rolling]

10. Desperate

When someone has Stage-4 cancer you’re desperate. I bought some online when my wife was diagnosed and we were desperate. She had begun other treatments and I ingested the smallest dose possible for a few days as a guinea pig. My wife was sick, I didn't want to make her worse, so I took the MMS for her to see if it was dangerous. Like I said, desperate.

Long story short, my wife also took IV ascorbic acid coupled with chemo and it produced results so there was no need to do anything so radical. She survived.

But I took it for a few days and it didn’t kill me. It isn’t “bleach” per se, but it’s not something anyone with any medical reputation would ever recommend.

[Brainfodder]

12. Takes 1 to know 4 and they were competition?

[iluvtennis]

13. "marketed the potentially lethal "Miracle Mineral Solution" as a groundbreaking coronavirus cure"

[Lock him up.]

14. It sure has to "break the ground" in order to lower coffins...

... 6 feet... under...

LOCK EM UP

[iluvtennis]

15. Yep. Lock Em Up. nt

[sakabatou]

17. Wasn't that peddled by evangelicals?

[iluvtennis]

19. article says they were actually "pretend" evangelicals. nt

[sakabatou]

21. Pretend Evangelicals or just not true Scotsmen?

[Rural_Progressive]

16. Guess that means I'm never going to get

the gallon jug of brainwash I ordered, my case of mental floss has been on back order for a month.

How am I supposed to get all this junk out of my brain? The images, the stupidity, the colossal ignorance, I had been counting on the bleach and floss to free my beautiful mind, but no, somebody has to arrest the guy before my order shows up.

[CTyankee]

20. Hot yoga? My daughter swears by it...