He endorsed a company that used ‘deceptive practices’ and ‘false claims’
If you watch the video, he is definitely endorsing them. This is more than a paid speech.
Did he do something wrong here? Maybe not criminal, but I wasn’t expecting him to be endorsing a company that got into trouble in 2007 for false claims and deceptive practices. He even endorsed them in the debate by saying he still uses their products.
Nutraceutical firm Mannatech uses Carson to hawk its ‘Nutriverus’ product, which he claimed could ‘restore natural diet as a medicine’
The company uses a multi-level marketing system to sell its products, drawing complaints that it’s a pyramid scheme
Carson’s business manager is a columnist who was plagued by scandal in 2005 for accepting $240,000 to promote the Bush administration’s ‘No Child Left Behind’ education policy
Williams claims Carson spoke at the company’s annual meetings but ‘had no idea who these people are’
20/20 found another Mannatech product ‘costs at least $200 a month’ and was sold as a ‘fix’ for ‘diseases from cancer to multiple sclerosis and AIDS’
Texas then-Attorney General Greg Abbot, now the state’s governor, slammed the company in 2007 for ‘deceptive practices’ and ‘false claims’
“Texas reached a settlement in 2009; Mannatech paid $4 million in restitution to customers in the state but wasn’t required to admit any wrongdoing. The company’s president paid a $1 million penalty and was banned from working for Mannatech for five years.
The company’s employees were also barred from claiming ‘directly or indirectly’ that their products could ‘cure, treat, mitigate or prevent any disease.’
Carson’s work with Mannatech, however, extended until at least March 2014 when the YouTube video was published online.”
So how much is Karl Rove paying you?
That’s the ticket. When you cannot make a case for you guy, slander the other guy. And you wonder why you continually lose elections?