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and his three adult sons will serve multiple years in prison after selling a toxic, industrial bleach as a “miracle” treatment and cure for COVID-19, a federal judge ruled Friday.
The men peddled tens of thousands of bottles of their homemade sodium chlorite product called Miracle Mineral Solution, or MMS, while falsely claiming that drinking it could cure numerous, serious ailments, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida Despite there being no supporting medical evidence for consuming the solution, the family raked in more than $1 million by selling the product that was made in Jonathan Grenon’s backyard in Bradenton, south of Tampa, and sold nationwide through the so-called Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, prosecutors said.
The men identified themselves as bishops of the church, and in a letter sent to U.S. prosecutors in early 2020, they defended their business dealings as protected under its “first amendment religious rights … as a sovereign free church.”
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