Florida family may spend life in prison after 'church' sold bleach as cure for COVID-19

[left-of-center2012]

A federal grand jury brought charges against members of a Bradenton family nearly a year after they were arrested for selling bleach that they claimed to be a cure for the COVID-19 virus.
Mark Grenon and his three sons — Jonathan, Jordan and Joseph — face several charges for peddling their “Miracle Mineral Solution” to customers even after the Food and Drug Administration refuted those claims and a court ordered the family to halt sales of the chemicals.

Federal agents raided their home and found loaded guns, nearly 10,000 pounds of sodium chlorite powder and thousands of bottles of MMS. Court records show that the Grenons made more than $1 million selling MMS. On top of marketing it as a cure for COVID-19, the Grenons allegedly pitched the deadly concoction as a cure-all that could remedy a host of medical conditions, such as cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and HIV.

The Grenons sold MMS under their “non-religious” Genesis Church of Health and Healing in an effort to bypass government regulation. The FDA has not approved MMS for any sort of medical treatment and advises against drinking it under any circumstance. The sodium chlorite becomes an industrial bleach when it is mixed with water or ingested. Drinking MMS is the same as drinking an industrial bleach that is used to bleach textiles and paper, the FDA warned. Side effects of drinking bleach include severe vomiting, diarrhea and extremely low blood pressure.

In April 2020, Grenon claimed he wrote President Trump touting MMS as a treatment for COVID-19. It was just days before the president made controversial remarks about the possibility of injecting disinfectant into COVID-19 patients.

https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/04/florida-family-may-spend-life-in-prison-after-church-sold-bleach-as-cure-for-covid-19.html

[gratuitous]

1. Life in prison sounds about right

Take all their assets and divide it among the survivors of their victims. These people need to die alone and penniless.

[struggle4progress]

2. "Shooting yourself in the head is another sure-fire cure for COVID!"

[dianaredwing]

19. You can't make this shit up

I continually feel I have fallen into an alternate universe. Beam me up, please.

[Hekate]

3. Drink enough of it & all your troubles will be over...

Just put the Grenons away, please.

[sueh]

4. How in the hell is it they aren"t being charged with manslaughter?

7 people died from drinking this! But again, tRumpers should know better.

[Maraya1969]

32. I thought of that too. No answer.

[JI7]

5. Hopefully

[tanyev]

6. What, no son named Jehoshaphat?

[BigmanPigman]

7. ....

[multigraincracker]

8. Judas if you pay him 30 pieced if silver

would work.

[skamaria]

31. He jumped that crazy train!

"Jumpin Jehoshaphat"

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

9. Life in prison...

[Firestorm49]

10. Once again, the Trump base reveals its diminished mentality

Three cheers to Hillary! Deplorables? Yes!
Dumber than a can of grey paint? Well, I guess so.

[Initech]

11. Gee... ya think Trump might have been full of shit there?

[packman]

12. Well, their mistake was -

Not selling that light up your ass (or down one's throat) to purge that Covid out of your system.

[Ms. Toad]

13. Sounds like we know where Trump got his idea from.

In April 2020, Grenon claimed he wrote to the president touting MMS as a treatment for COVID-19. It was just days before the president made controversial remarks about the possibility of injecting disinfectant into COVID-19 patients.

[niyad]

21. This was known back then. Covered thoroughly here on DU. Sure took the Feds a long time.

[Ms. Toad]

25. I missed it. n/t

[niyad]

28. So much to try to keep track of during the murdering orange traitor's reign of terror.

[bringthePaine]

14. still too good for these abominable shitheads - all proceeds/holdings attached for restitution

[monkeyman1]

15. make them drink it ! might change their tune !

[Warpy]

16. Assholes like him were why we got the FDA

Traveling snake oil salesman would pull into town, put on a show, issue a bunch of bible quotes, sell loads of their product, and haul ass out of town before people started dropping dead.

They tacked the "F" onto it because Upton Sinclair told people some of what was in their breakfast sausages.

Libertarians/GOPers want to get rid of that agency more than any other, "Oh, if the medicine is no good you can sue."

Right, from the grave?

And they wonder why we think they're dumb.

[Blue Owl]

17. Bleach makes a great prison cell disinfectant

[ShazzieB]

18. I don't know what's more disturbing...

The fact that the Grenons were horrible enough to promote and sell this poison to unsuspecting people,

or

The fact that multiple people were stupid enough to fall for the scam, much less actually ingest this crap.

Both of these things are hideously awful and horrifying in completely different yet strangely interdependent ways. We live in a scary world.

[ancianita]

20. A year seems too long to allow a death dealing racket to go on; not expeditious justice; not cool.

Just my layman's opinion.

I live in Bradenton, never read or heard about this weirdness that was so crazy it even got noted on Rachel's show. I feel sorry that religious types got duped and hurt over this, though.

[msfiddlestix]

26. I agree. One of the most frustrating aspects of our Justice System

A year seems too long to allow a death dealing racket to go on; not expeditious justice; not cool.

People who are obviously doing harm to others, profiting from it at that, and still allowed to continue to do harm while the justice system sorts itself out on what to do about it.

effin hell, that has to change. it's been going forever. I don't get it.

[ancianita]

34. Perhaps a framework for expeditious processing can be set into an upcoming judiciary reform.

When we're talking about a deadly racket (and so many are) there must be a faster way for grand juries and courts to convene those cases.

[msfiddlestix]

35. one would think so.

It's a mystery (to me) why the obvious isn't an established matter of procedure. Surely, there must be a faster way to expedite judicial processes for these criminals that pose dangerous consequences to national security economically or otherwise.

[ancianita]

39. right?

I can't help but think this slow roll issue of the justice process is a matter of political will.

[msfiddlestix]

40. Again, I agree.

I think we've witnessed evidence of that time and time again over the course of our lifetime. However, it's never been more urgent than now to scrap that old play book and set about to expedite these matters.

Easier said.... especially when too many of the old guard, or others in the ranks that might have conflicting interests one could say.

So. the status quo is still in play.

[ancianita]

41. One thing judicial reform absolutely must do.

Judicial reform must permanently increase base funding for the federal judicial system.
The federal system definitely needs more money to operate. More money and manpower.

[msfiddlestix]

42. hmm. Good point. Wonder how it's generally funded by congress....

Omnibus bills?

[ancianita]

43. It's under discretionary spending? Here's something from the ABA

https://www.americanbar.org/advocacy/governmental_legislative_work/priorities_policy/independence_of_the_judiciary/federal-court-funding/


Also,
https://www.uscourts.gov/topics/funding

It looks as if the federal court can't control either its caseload or its budget. It's been choked, it seems, in trumpcult years.

[msfiddlestix]

44. geeze. I don't think I can handle anymore knowledge of destruction by these treasonous bastards

I made the mistake of turning on Rachael tonight. Qanon is doing an audit of the ballots, ignoring the court's disclosure orders. and they're getting away with it. How in the hell do we fight on all fronts as citizens without having to be "storming" the capitol ourselves?
I'm feeling really powerless. Use to say, knowledge is power. Not I'm saying not so much.

sorry, the news has got me down. really really down.

[ancianita]

45. You're not alone. The only hope I have

is that 81 million will keep turnout out as in 2020, and we can eventually get this nation's branches of governance stabilized enough that the bad side of big corps gives up the idea that they don't care what kind of government they do business alongside.

I have other ideas about federal judicial reform:

Federal judicial reform MUST also contain, top to bottom, real, operational court ruling enforcement. This must be the #1 goal of reform. Unenforced laws are no laws at all.
— new, named enforcement agents to bring ordered persons to appear before federal courts, along with
— immediate fines per day for the ignoring any and all court subpoenas, contempt of court rulings, and
— laws that make those who threaten federal judges in any way subject to immediate arrest and due process hearings.

Judicial reform must
— ban all dark docket cases in the service of national transparency,
— require courts to make rulings within 30 days of FOIA refusals, or those FOIA refusals are null and void by default.

[Mr. Ected]

22. I'm surprised Trump hasn't already sued them for a cut of their profits

"They were nothing until I marketed their product for them on national TV!"

[csziggy]

29. They were arrested nearly a year ago

"A federal grand jury brought charges against members of a Bradenton family nearly a year after they were arrested for selling bleach that they claimed to be a cure for the COVID-19 virus."

It's just taken until now for them to be charged.

[catrose]

23. EXTREMELY low blood pressure. Sing along with Randy:

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[msfiddlestix]

36. Fun to watch now, forgotten all about this one, he's so freaking brilliant, talented and funny.

[MagickMuffin]

24. Here they are

Someone's missing out of the 3 sons

[msfiddlestix]

37. are these twins ?

there is a striking resemblance regardless of the one on the right looking like he's drugged up on an opiate or something. Glad to see them in orange, what about daddy? is he booked and charged too?

[orangecrush]

27. Danger to society

Bye assholes.

[sarcasmo]

30. Bleach a versary was a couple days ago.

[Maraya1969]

33. It looks like they were the ones who gave trump the idea.

"In April 2020, Grenon claimed he wrote to the president touting MMS as a treatment for COVID-19. It was just days before the president made controversial remarks about the possibility of injecting disinfectant into COVID-19 patients. The president later claimed the remarks were sarcastically made to reporters, “just to see what would happen.”

However, the remarks appeared to encourage Grenon, who promoted Trump’s statements as support for MMS."

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[Rustyeye77]

38. That sh*t eating grin of the father will be gone

once hes in prison.