Federal jury convicts 4 Florida men for selling bleach solution as ‘miracle’ cure for diseases
It took only 30 minutes on Wednesday for a Miami federal jury to convict a father and his three sons of selling a toxic bleach solution as “miracle” medical cure out of a fake Florida church’s website to thousands of consumers across the country.
Mark Grenon, 65, and sons Jonathan, 37, Joseph, 35, and Jordan, 29 chose to represent themselves in their two-day trial in Miami federal court. But they said nothing during the trial, as if they were silently protesting the proceeding.
Only after the 12-person jury hit them with a quick verdict did one of the Grenons speak up. “We will be appealing,” Joseph Grenon said.
During the trial and closing arguments, prosecutors had a lot to say about the the four defendants from Bradenton, portraying them as con men who used a phony religious front on a website, the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, to sell $1 million worth of their “Miracle Mineral Solution” in video pitches as a cure for 95% of the world’s known diseases, from AIDS to the coronavirus.
“This whole Miracle Mineral Solution scheme was built on deception and dishonesty,” prosecutor John Shipley said during his closing argument, telling jurors that the Grenons “created a fake church to make it harder for the Food and Drug Administration and government to stop them from selling snake oil.”
But, “this was no church,” he argued. “This was a scam for money — an old-fashioned scam.”
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