Miami’s ABC affiliate reports:
A Florida man and his three sons were convicted on federal fraud charges Wednesday for marketing a poisonous bleach concoction as a cure for 95% of the world’s diseases, including COVID-19. Mark Grenon, 65, and his sons, 37-year-old Jonathan, 35-year-old Joseph and 29-year-old Jordan, were all charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. and deliver misbranded drugs.
The Grenons represented themselves but declined to make opening statements. All four men, who appeared in court rocking a much different look, including long beards and waist-length hair, mostly sat in silence and said nothing during the trial. In federal court this week, prosecutors called the Grenons “con men” and “snake-oil salesmen” who used their fake church to sell MMS as a “religious sacrament.”
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The family has appeared on JMG many times for its “miracle bleach” claims. They first appeared on JMG when anti-LGBT activist and perennial GOP presidential candidate Alan Keyes endorsed them.
Notably, family patriarch Mark Grenon claimed to have personally pitched Trump on the product before Trump’s infamous suggestion about injecting disinfectant.
The Grenons have also claimed that their bleach cures, HIV, Alzheimer’s, and cancer. Sentencing is October 6th.
A Florida man and his three sons were convicted on federal fraud charges for marketing a poisonous bleach concoction as a cure for 95% of the world’s diseases, including COVID-19. https://t.co/Ryqn4QosQa
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) July 19, 2023
Four members of a Florida family are convicted of selling a toxic industrial bleach as a fake Covid cure through their online church, according to court records. https://t.co/372ODqcQPN
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 20, 2023
BREAKING: Turns out Mark Grenon, the leader of the group peddling bleach as a COVID ‘cure’ wrote to Trump this week, saying that chlorine dioxide (a powerful bleach that is deadly when drunk) “can rid the body of Covid-19”.
Oh yeah, and he distributes it.https://t.co/TIgUGEmbHb
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) April 24, 2020