Televangelist Jim Bakker Ordered By Attorney General To Stop Selling Fake Cure For Coronavirus

[CatWoman]

Whatever televangelist Jim Bakker is selling, the New York Attorney General ain’t buying.

Lisa Landau, Chief of the Health Care Bureau, gave The Jim Bakker Show 10 days to comply with a cease-and-desist letter that tells him to stop touting an alleged cure for the coronavirus. The letter was sent Thursday to Bakker’s office and cited a Feb. 12 episode of his show that claimed a Silver Solution sold on his website would be a preventative against the coronavirus.

Bakker was previously convicted of fraud and served time in federal prison related to his activities connected to his popular Praise The Lord (PTL) Club show, a religious version of mainstream talk shows featuring Jim and wife Tammy Faye Bakker. The couple later divorced in 1992 in the wake of a scandal that saw Bakker pay hush money to cover up an affair with church secretary Jessica Hahn. But at one point in the 1980s, he was arguably the most prominent televangelist in America.

He now has a new show and a new wife.

On the Feb. 12 show in question, Bakker asked guest Sherill Sellman if the solution she was talking about would work against the coronavirus.

“Let’s say it hasn’t been tested on this strain of the coronavirus, but it’s been rested on other strains of the coronavirus and has been able to eliminate it within 12 hours,” she replied.

“The World Heath Organization (‘WHO’) has noted that there is no specific medicine to prevent or treat this disease,” Landau said in her letter to Bakker. “Therefore, any representation on the Jim Bakker Show that its Silver Solution products are effective at combating and/or treating the 2019 novel coronavirus violates New York law.”

Landau also said a disclaimer had to be listed on the website denying any claims on its efficacy. “These statement have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease,” the disclaimer reads.

The Silver Solution products were on sale for more than $125.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/televangelist-jim-bakker-ordered-attorney-012828002.html

[Va Lefty]

1. Remind me again why we stopped tarring and the feathering people like this?

[MurrayDelph]

2. Price of tar?

[Turbineguy]

7. The price of tar

dropped today.

I can't speak for feathers.

If Bakker were struck by lightning and turned into a smoking piece of port rind, a lot of people would start going to church.

[Lord Ludd]

3. That snake oil has a better chance of

growing hair on Bakker's shiny bald pate than it does of preventing Covid.

[Celerity]

4. fucking grifters, I hope they violate the order and he is tossed into prison again

[Ahpook]

6. What a drag

If I had the heart to do so, I would start one of these evangelical clubs and make millions. It is so easy to fleece the weirdos.

I can definitely see the attraction to this kind of easy money.

[MrsCheaplaugh]

5. 125 dollars

for nothing? This man has grifting in his nature, and will never stop.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. It's Not For Nothing!

There's about 0.02 cents worth the silver in there.
It's a bargain!

[Goodheart]

8. Let's see....

Selling a sham cure for the coronavirus: PROHIBITED!

Selling a sham cure for your eternal soul: Hey, that's just good business.

[3catwoman3]

9. He is such a sleaze bag.

So much for the “Go and sin no more” admonition.