The Justice Division moved to dismiss costs in opposition to a Utah plastic physician charged in reference to a COVID-19 fraud scheme, Legal professional Common Pam Bondi introduced on Saturday.
Michael Kirk Moore Jr. and three of his associates have been indicted by a federal grand jury in January 2023 and accused of discarding greater than $28,000 price of government-provided COVID-19 vaccines and of distributing practically two thousand fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination playing cards in alternate for money or required “donations.”
The indictment additionally alleged that Moore and his associates administered saline photographs to youngsters, on the request of the mother and father, so the youngsters would assume they have been receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
The trial started per week in the past in Salt Lake Metropolis, however Bondi introduced Saturday that the DOJ would dismiss the fees.
“At my direction @TheJusticeDept has dismissed charges against Dr. Kirk Moore,” Bondi wrote in a submit on the social platform X.
“Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so,” she continued. “He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing. It ends today.”
The case has turn out to be a rallying cry for a lot of within the GOP, who’ve railed in opposition to the fees filed beneath the Biden administration.
The announcement additionally comes as Bondi has confronted rising scrutiny by members of Trump’s right-wing base for her dealing with of the case associated to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The DOJ put out a memo on Monday concluding there was no so-called consumer checklist that Epstein stored to blackmail high-profile associates, refuting well-liked conspiracy theories suggesting in any other case. The memo additionally stated there was no proof to recommend foul play was concerned in Epstein’s demise, which had beforehand been dominated a suicide.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) thanked Bondi for “dropping the WRONGFUL charges against Dr. Kirk Moore,” whom Greene known as “a hero who refused to inject his sufferers with a authorities mandated unsafe vaccine!”
“We can never again allow our government to turn tyrannical under our watch,” she continued. “Thankfully, as soon as I told Pam Bondi about Dr. Moore’s case she swiftly moved to drop the charges against him. This is a big win!”
Bondi acknowledged the position Greene performed within the determination.
“This would not have been possible without @RepMTG who brought this case to my attention. She has been a warrior for Dr. Moore and for ending the weaponization of government,” Bondi wrote in a subsequent submit on X.
She additionally thanked Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), saying on X he “has been a champion for advocating to end the weaponization of government, including to Dr. Moore.”
