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They condemn a doctor for selling a false "miracle cure" against the coronavirus

2022-06-01T17:26:38.973Z


The doctor promoted his product from California as a "magic bullet" that worked "100%" for COVID-19, an "incredible weapon" and "almost too good to be true."


In March and April 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic filled hospitals and morgues and forced millions of people around the world to lock themselves in their homes, a doctor in San Diego, California, claimed that he had obtained a “miraculous cure” against the coronavirus, for which there were neither medicines to treat it nor a vaccine to prevent it, as there is now.

Jennings Ryan Staley, 44, sold his "treatment kits" to customers at his Skinny Beach Med Spas in the Californian city.

The kits included

hydroxychloroquine,

a drug to treat diseases such as malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, which former President Donald Trump promoted without scientific basis as a preventive treatment against the coronavirus.

The doctor confessed to an

undercover FBI agent

who pretended to be interested in his miracle cure that he planned to smuggle in a barrel of powdered hydroxychloroquine with the help of a Chinese supplier.

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Staley

was sentenced Friday to 30 days in preventive detention and one year of house arrest

for trying to smuggle that product into the United States and sell it in his "coronavirus treatment kits," the Department of Justice reported in a statement.

“At the height of the pandemic, before vaccines were available, this doctor tried to capitalize on patients' fears,” said US Attorney Randy Grossman. 

“He abused his position of trust and undermined the integrity of the entire medical profession,” he added. 

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Staley admitted that he intended to sell the hydroxychloroquine powder in capsule form as part of his COVID-19 "treatment kit" sales venture in March and April 2020.

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Staley admitted to having written a prescription for hydroxychloroquine in the name of one of his employees and without his consent to obtain that product, which was beginning to be scarce in pharmacies.

In addition, he sought investors promising to "triple their money in 90 days," according to the ruling.

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Authorities began investigating Staley after receiving several tips from concerned citizens about his marketing campaign, according to court documents.

In conversations with an undercover FBI agent posing as a potential client, Staley described his products as a

"100%" cure

, a

"magic bullet"

, an

"incredible weapon"

and

"almost too good to be true"

and claimed the products would provide at least six weeks of immunity.

Staley acknowledged that as a doctor, he abused a position of public trust and used his skills to execute his plan.

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The undercover agent purchased six of Staley's "treatment kits" for

$4,000.

Court documents explain that during a phone call, Staley not only made false claims about the effectiveness of his "treatment kits";

he also bragged about getting the hydroxychloroquine “smuggled in” because an agent “fooled customs saying it was sweet potato extract.”

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District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel sentenced Staley to pay a $10,000 fine and ordered the forfeiture of the $4,000 paid by the undercover agent, as well as more than 4,500 tablets of various drugs, multiple bags of empty pill capsules and a manual capsule filling machine.

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According to California medical board records, Staley's license has been temporarily suspended by court order, The Washington Post reported.

Source: telemundo

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