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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 12:28 PM Apr 2021

FL man indicted for selling over $1 million worth of toxic COVID-19 'miracle cure' that was bleach

Florida man indicted for selling over $1 million worth of toxic COVID-19 'miracle cure' that was bleach

Tom Boggioni
April 24, 2021

According to a report from BayNews9, a 62-year-old man and his three adult sons were indicted on Friday for selling a COVID-19 "miracle cure" that was essentially industrial bleach.

The report states that Mark Grenon, 62, of Bradenton, along with his sons Jonathan Grenon, 34, Jordan Grenon, 26, and Joseph Grenon, 32 were hit with federal charges for refusing to stop selling the toxic substance.

"The indictment alleges that the Grenons took in more than $1 million from selling tens of thousands of bottles of it," the report states, adding they "manufactured, promoted and sold 'Miracle Mineral Solution,' which contained sodium chlorite and water," which, "when ingested, the solution became chlorine dioxide, typically used for treatment or bleaching textiles, pulp and paper, the release said."

According to the report the men, "threatened a federal judge that they would 'pick up guns' and instigate 'a Waco' should the government attempt to enforce court orders that halted their distribution of their product."

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FL man indicted for selling over $1 million worth of toxic COVID-19 'miracle cure' that was bleach (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2021 OP
Is Florida man named Trump? iemitsu Apr 2021 #1
Exactly soothsayer Apr 2021 #5
Quite The Scam ProfessorGAC Apr 2021 #2
Where do you find enough gullible suckers... Grins Apr 2021 #4
Thought Later... ProfessorGAC Apr 2021 #6
It's called the Internet jmowreader Apr 2021 #7
While dump et al. Continue to walk free SheltieLover Apr 2021 #3

ProfessorGAC

(64,852 posts)
2. Quite The Scam
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 12:38 PM
Apr 2021

Saturated sodium chloride can be bought for around $500 for a minibulk tote. 2,000#.
That's about $2.50 a gallon, maybe less.
Even specialty reagent companies sell it for around $50 a gallon, and prices at those vendors are well known to be ridiculously high.
They could have bought a drum for a couple hundred, diluted it to 5%, and sell 1,100 quart bottles at $30 each.
Do that 30 times, and there's a million bucks.
When margins become that ridiculously high, we know it's a scam.

ProfessorGAC

(64,852 posts)
6. Thought Later...
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 12:59 PM
Apr 2021

...that given the COVID fear, that $30 a bottle is probably ridiculously low.
They were probably getting $100-150 per bottle.
Your question still applies, though.

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