Posted on 04/17/2020 11:55:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It was described as the "magic bullet" to protect against the deadly coronavirus -- a "remarkable clinical phenomenon" that could cure the disease within hours.
In the words of San Diego physician Jennings Staley, the drug hydroxychloroquine, approved to treat conditions ranging from malaria to lupus, was "almost too good to be true."
The "COVID-19 Concierge Medicine Pack" offered by Dr. Jennings Staley is seen in this image provided by the US Attorney's Office Southern District of California. CNN has obscured the doctor's phone number.
On his website advertising the product, Staley -- whose practice includes Botox injections, tattoo removal, oxygen therapy, and fat transfer -- cited President Donald Trump's recent promotion of a French study claiming hydroxychloroquine had overwhelmingly positive results in the fight against Covid-19, according to federal prosecutors.
The doctor would soon be charged with a federal crime. According to federal authorities, comments by the Southern California doctor about the drug's remarkable capabilities were recorded during a phone call with a concerned father of three, who contacted Staley inquiring how he could protect his family from contracting Covid-19.
In reality, the man on the other end of the line was an undercover FBI agent conducting an investigation into possible health care fraud.
According to a federal criminal complaint filed obtained by CNN, the FBI launched an undercover operation and made contact with the doctor in early April after receiving a tip from the public indicating Staley was attempting to sell "Covid-19 Treatment Packs" to the public.
In an advertising email message reviewed by the FBI, Staley's purported medical package included dosages of hydroxychloroquine, antibacterial drug Azithromycin, antianxiety treatments, intravenous drips, and the use of a medical hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Staley offered to sell the items as a family pack for $3,995, according to the criminal complaint.
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If the Doctor was pricing these packages at that price he should be investigated and thrown in jail. Period!
Seems to me that you can't get the medicine and additional items including an oxygen chamber for $20. Hospitals charge over $1000 for a one-day visit to a room, and thousands for use of simple devices. I don't think the doctor is overcharging. Maybe he's guilty of offering guaranteed cures, but regular hospitals are guilty of overcharging patients on a regular basis.
> antianxiety treatments, intravenous drips, and the use of a medical hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Staley offered to sell the items as a family pack for $3,995, according to the criminal complaint.
5 bucks for the actual treatment and $3990 for BS. I think I understand the charge...
...and anyone can understand why Communist News Network wrote it so so one might think it was wrong or illegal to use hydrochloroquine and Zpak.
Citizens charge “journalist” who cited Obama to push Socialism ‘miracle cure’.
Partisan Media Shills update.
It sounds like what happened to Martin Shkreli a few years ago. When you jack up the price of a drug like that, people are gonna come sniffing around. Plus, I have no idea if a hyperbaric chamber would make a damned bit of difference.
[[mislabeling it as a sweet potato extract.]]
Come on- who doesn’t like Sweet potato pie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4NQHaud-ZU
In other words, this idiot was fraudulently promoting a combination of treatments as a cure, with the “yam extract” being a “patent medicine.”
Off with his head!
All hospitals are guilty of BS and ripping off patients. (See my post before yours.) I don't think the doctor is overcharging for treatments any more than regular medical offices. I've had hospitals charge hundreds of dollars for use of simple items that would cost us ten bucks, are reusable, and it's obvious we are overcharged - now that's fraud. We've demanded to take home items we were charged for, and they look at us like we are the thieves.
That was an important part. Thanks
CNN/ATT twisting, omitting the facts
“So, a conman physician peddles a product to the public and CNN must push PDJT into the headline of the doctor’s purported malfeasance.”
Exactly. That was the purpose of this article from CNN. Tie Trump to this criminal charlatan.
Is this an “anecdotal” charge?
i am sorry no one, no story i ever read, said it could cure this in a few hours.
no one ever said this was a cure.
it is a medicine that fights against the virus and helps the immune system fight against it. peoplemhave made comments they started feeling significantly better in a few hours of taking the first doses.
thats not saying its been cured in three hours.
this again is attempts to discredit somethingnthat works effectively against this, THAT ISNT A MANDATORY VACCINE AND DOESN’T REQUIRE NAZI-STYLE VACCINATION PROOF PAPERS FOR CONTROLLING PEOPLE.
TAMIFLU DOESN’T CURE THE FLU, BUT IT HELPS FIGHT AGAINST ITMAND DOCS RECOMMEND IT AND USE IT, WHERE IS THE MEDIA DISCREDITING TAMIFLU
seriously,people,wake the phruck up.
they wanted a lockdown for years while they developed a ‘vaccine’
the unexpected med that throws a huge wrench in their plans and lets people defelop a natural immunity and strengthen their immune systems WITHOUT THEIR PRECIOUS VAX AND TRACKING SYSTEM - well that can’t be allowed to happen.
F the FBI. They are a political agency, no different than the Praetorian guard who ran Rome and killed emperors as they saw fit.
Disgusting. Jury nullification needs to happen in every FBI case.
They found him doing the sketchy import trick. But he was targeted by the FBI because he was a fan of Trump’s pills.
“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime”
Beria
LOL...lost my sip of tea, on that one. :-)
"In an advertising email message reviewed by the FBI, Staley's purported medical package included dosages of hydroxychloroquine, antibacterial drug Azithromycin, antianxiety treatments, intravenous drips, and the use of a medical hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Staley offered to sell the items as a family pack for $3,995, according to the criminal complaint."
Also Xanax and Viagra without medical need or prescription.
SOunds like they have a case for fraud.
The headline throws Trump in there for no reason. Or for malicious reasons we can reasonably guess: it's CNN.
This story isn’t what CNN is trying to present it as. So basically, it appears you have a doctor being a snake oil salesman using a treatment to sell something bogus to people trying to protect themselves from getting infected and was not actually acting as a treating doctor, and was exploiting the President’s words as a ruse to get people to buy in.
CNN then takes this incident to create a bogus story to try to damage the President as though he is somehow responsible for this individual’s actions as though he is a player in this drama, when he has nothing to do with it.
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