Over de oplichtingszaak: een groep mensen deed zaken als American Biologics en ontwikkelden een strategie om een medisch apparaat en zogenaamde geneesmiddelen voor de diagnose en behandeling van de ziekte van Lyme op de markt te zetten, waarvan ze claimden dat het Lyme kan genezen.
De geschiedenis herhaalt zich steeds weer in Lymeland, wanneer leert men hier nou eens van?!
NB: eén van de middelen die ze hadden ontwikkeld is Dioxychlor. Dat werd mij ook voorgeschreven door een "Lymearts" van de ABNG (natuurartsen). Daar heb ik twee flesjes van genomen; het zou het immuunsysteem ondersteunen. Het bevat net zoiets als MMS, maar dan in een lagere concentratie.
Hieronder de nieuwsberichten over de schuldbekentenis en linken naar bronnen met meer informatie over deze groots opgezette oplichtingszaak.
Bron: http://kansascitykansan.com/blogs/docto ... -cure/8855
Doctor pleads guilty for creating fake disease cure
Posted by on October 26, 2010 - 10:45am
U.S. Department of Justice
KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A Kansas physician has pleaded guilty to participating in a fraudulent scheme to sell medical equipment and drug treatments for a nonexistent epidemic of Lyme disease, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
John R. Toth, 61, Topeka, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, introduce misbranded drugs into interstate commerce, receive misbranded drugs in interstate commerce and introduce adulterated or misbranded medical devices into interstate commerce.
In his plea, Toth admitted that beginning in September 2001, co-defendants CRB, Inc., doing business as American Biologics, Robert W. Bradford, Brigitte G. Byrd, Carole Bradford and others developed a strategy for marketing a medical device and drugs to diagnose and treat Lyme disease, which they claimed was the underlying cause of many illnesses the medical community was failing to address.
The marketing plan promoted a false “epidemic” of Lyme disease in order to create demand for a microscope the co-defendants manufactured and claimed could diagnose the disease and for drugs they claimed could cure the disease. Neither the medical device nor the drugs was reviewed or approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Toth distributed various drugs prepared by the conspirators including Bismacine, Dioxychlor, Sulfoxime and Bio-Rizin to his patients. Because he knew that health care benefit programs would not pay for the Lyme disease treatment, he established Alternative Therapies Health Association to bill patients for the treatment.
He charged patients for the use of the Bradford Microscope and intravenous injection of drugs. As a result of such treatment, one patient in Kansas experienced renal failure and another patient in Kansas lapsed into a coma and died.
Toth is set for sentencing Jan. 18, 2011. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000. He agreed to pay a money judgment of $30,000.
Co defendants are:
Robert W. Bradford, who pleaded guilty and is set for sentencing Dec. 14, 2010.
Carole E. Bradford, who pleaded guilty and is set for sentencing Jan. 18, 2011.
Brigitte G. Byrd, who pleaded guilty and is set for sentencing Jan. 18, 2011.
CRB, Inc., dba American Biologics, which pleaded guilty and is set for sentencing Jan. 18, 2011.
Grissom commended the Food and Drug Administration – Office of Criminal Investigation, Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Rask and John Claud, trial attorney with the Department of Justice’s Office of Consumer Litigation for their work on the case.
Bron: http://cjonline.com/news/state/2010-10- ... d_of_fraud
Ex-physician convicted of fraud
By Steve Fry
Created October 26, 2010 at 10:25am
Updated October 26, 2010 at 11:31pm
A former Kansas physician, who pleaded no contest to manslaughter in 2007 in a Kansas district court tied to the death of a patient, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to taking part in a fraudulent scheme to sell medical equipment and drug treatments for a nonexistent epidemic of Lyme disease, the U.S. Attorney's office said Tuesday.
John R. Toth, 61, pleaded guilty to a federal count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, introduce misbranded drugs into interstate commerce, receive misbranded drugs in interstate commerce, and introduce adulterated or misbranded medical devices into interstate commerce, U.S. Attrorney Barry Grissom said Tuesday. Toth, who had been scheduled to to go on trial on Nov. 1, made the plea Monday in a Kansas City, Kan., courtroom.
Toth formerly lived in Topeka but now lives in Lawrence.
Toth is to be sentenced in Kansas City, Kan., on Jan. 18 by District Judge Kathryn Vratil. Toth faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000. He agreed to pay a money judgment of $30,000.
In Shawnee County District Court, Toth was sentenced to 32 months in state prison in March 2008 after he pleaded no contest in November 2007 to a reduced charge of reckless involuntary manslaughter in the April 20, 2006, death of a patient, Beverly A. Wunder, 47, of Topeka.
Toth served 26 months before he was released from a Kansas prison on July 2 and placed on parole in Douglas County, Bill Miskell, Kansas Department of Corrections spokesman, said.
When Toth was released from state prison in July, he remained free after he was placed on an unsecured bond of $25,000 in connection with the federal case, according to U.S. District Court records.
Toth, who surrendered his medical license in January 2008, originally faced a charge of reckless second-degree murder in Shawnee County District Court after he treated Wunder for Lyme disease with a substance not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
In his plea to the federal charge, Toth admitted that beginning in September 2001, co-defendants CRB, Inc., doing business as American Biologics, Robert W. Bradford, Brigitte G. Byrd, Carole Bradford and others developed a strategy for marketing a medical device and drugs to diagnose and treat Lyme disease, which they claimed was the underlying cause of many illnesses the medical community was failing to address.
The marketing plan promoted a false "epidemic" of Lyme disease in order to create demand for a microscope the co-defendants manufactured and alleged could diagnose the disease and for drugs they claimed could cure the disease, Grissom said.
Neither the medical device nor the drugs was reviewed or approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Grissom said.
Toth distributed various drugs prepared by the conspirators including Bismacine, Dioxychlor, Sulfoxime and Bio-Rizin to his patients. Because he knew that health care benefit programs would not pay for the Lyme disease treatment, he established Alternative Therapies Health Association to bill patients for the treatment.
Toth charged patients for the use of the Bradford Microscope and intravenous injection of drugs. As a result of such treatment, one patient in Kansas experienced renal failure, and Wunder lapsed into a coma and died.
Co-defendants Robert Bradford, Carole Bradford, Brigitte Byrd and American Biologics, have pleaded guilty. Robert Bradford is to be sentenced on Dec. 14, and Carole Bradford, Brigitte Byrd and the company are to be sentenced on Jan. 18.
Grissom commended the Food and Drug Administration — Office of Criminal Investigation, assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Rask, and John Claud, trial attorney with the Department of Justice's Office of Consumer Litigation, for their work on the case.
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