4 members of a Florida family are convicted of selling a fake COVID-19 cure through online church

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

MIAMI (AP) — Four members of a Florida family were convicted Wednesday of selling a toxic industrial bleach as a fake COVID-19 cure through their online church.

A federal jury in Miami found Mark Grenon, 65, and his sons, 37-year-old Jonathan, 35-year-old Joseph and 29-year-old Jordan, guilty of conspiring to defraud the United States and deliver misbranded drugs, according to court records. That charge carries up to five years in prison. Their sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 6.

The Grenons represented themselves but declined to speak during the two-day trial, the Miami Herald reported. After the jury delivered its verdict, Joseph Grenon said they would be appealing.

Prosecutors called the Grenons “con men” and “snake-oil salesmen” and said the Bradenton family’s Genesis II Church of Health and Healing sold $1 million worth of their so-called Miracle Mineral Solution. In videos, it was pitched as a cure for 95% of known diseases, including COVID-19, Alzheimer’s, autism, brain cancer, HIV/AIDS and multiple sclerosis, prosecutors said.

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Published 7:33 PM EDT, July 19, 2023


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/fake-covid-cure-florida-church-4aa8f5e670b954ffff6122c6430f15fc

[Chainfire]

1. Prayer and bleach cures all.

Makes some scratch too!

[Midnight Writer]

2. Great! Now prosecutors should watch Jim Bakker's show.

[FakeNoose]

3. Federal court, not Florida court

[California Kid]

4. Amazing that people would even buy this crap let alone consume it

[mwb970]

14. These are not people like us.

[SeattleVet]

15. It appears that it was aimed at the same people eating horse deworming paste.

They had quite an active market going among the MAGAts who were buying anything but actual vaccines and treatments.

[atreides1]

17. It's called Blind Faith

Blind being the primary word...

[paleotn]

5. Jesus, con men and Florida. Now there's a bad combination.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. just con men , old term , snake oil pedelers .

[Solly Mack]

6. There is an argument to be made that death cures all.

And toxic industrial bleach can kill you.

Glad they got convicted.

[BlueWavePsych]

7. Grifting others to literally drink the bad kool-aid

[AllaN01Bear]

9. con men and snake oil pedelers .

[3Hotdogs]

10. 95% of known diseases --- I wonder if their stuff could cure my erectile nonfunction?

Where can I get some to try?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. It is so strong it will cure erectile non-function in women. . . . nt

[jmowreader]

11. They need to go after the rest of the MMS charlatans

This crap has been around far longer than COVID and it never turns out well.

About 15 years ago these particular individuals were selling MMS enemas as The Cure For Autism. They were publishing photos online saying the “tube worms” the kid expelled shortly after getting an MMS enema were the cause of autism. Problem is, these “worms” were actually the child’s intestinal lining, which slid out in one piece after it was bleached to death.

[ZonkerHarris]

12. burn in hell boys

[mwb970]

13. There is NO ONE easier to fool and con than a religious person.

Look at the stuff they already believe! Convincing them you have a miracle cure is easy, because they WANT to believe, and for them that's enough. No reference to the Real World.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

18. It doesn't help

That their crocks in frocks have brainwashed them since birth that faith is superior to reason, and that if facts contradict what they believe, then to spurn the facts and double-down on the belief.

Not a surprise, then, that they are constantly falling for every kind of scam imaginable.

One of these idiots even whined to me at work, "Why don't you ever have this happen to you? I'm a good person who goes to church, you're not, but I'm the one they try to rob."

"I know this will shock you, but I'm a good person--probably a better one than you, at that. And I don't get conned because I haven't had a preacher telling me all of my life to turn off my brain and just believe whatever I'm told. You have, and you'll keep getting ripped off, as long as you keep thinking faith is better than reality. Deal with your choices, rather than annoying everyone with your whining about it, when you won't do what it takes to stop it."

[LiberalFighter]

19. It is a shame people like them can't dematerialize and be gone.

[ToxMarz]

20. It was pitched as a cure for 95% of known diseases...

but unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your POV) it can't cure stupid.

[onetexan]

21. Grifting Grenons

can't believe ppl buy this nonsense

[Initech]

22. Have you seen Facebook?

It's a melting pot of crazy and stupid.