{"id":2656,"date":"2025-07-13T08:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/us-anti-vaxxer-doctor-who-destroyed-covid-jabs-gave-fake-certs-go-free-after-trump-admin-pressured-to-drop-charges\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:48:29","slug":"us-anti-vaxxer-doctor-who-destroyed-covid-jabs-gave-fake-certs-go-free-after-trump-admin-pressured-to-drop-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/us-anti-vaxxer-doctor-who-destroyed-covid-jabs-gave-fake-certs-go-free-after-trump-admin-pressured-to-drop-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"US anti-vaxxer doctor who destroyed Covid jabs, gave fake certs go free after Trump admin pressured to drop charges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON, July 13 — US Attorney General Pam Bondi said yesterday she had ordered charges to be dropped against a doctor accused of destroying Covid-19 jabs and issuing fake vaccination certificates.<\/p>\n

The abrupt halt to proceedings comes just days after the trial commenced, and is the latest boost to the vaccine-sceptic movement from President Donald Trump’s administration.<\/p>\n

Michael Kirk Moore, a plastic surgeon in the western state of Utah, was charged by the Department of Justice in 2023 alongside his clinic and three others for “running a scheme” to defraud the government.<\/p>\n

He was accused of destroying or disposing of over US$28,000 (RM120,000) worth of government-provided Covid vaccines and handing out at least 1,937 false vaccine record cards in exchange for payment.<\/p>\n

Moore, who faced decades behind bars, was also accused of administering a saline solution to children — at the behest of their parents — so that they would think they had been vaccinated against Covid.<\/p>\n

Moore’s trial began this week at a federal court in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n

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But on Tuesday, Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of Trump’s most vocal hard-right supporters, said she had written to Bondi calling for charges against Moore to be dropped.<\/p>\n

“Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so. He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing. It ends today,” Bondi wrote on X.<\/p>\n

Bondi’s decision also notably comes as she faces fire from right-wing activists over her handling of a probe into the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

She thanked Greene and Utah Senator Mike Lee, another hard-right lawmaker, for their advocacy for dropping charges against Moore.<\/p>\n

The Covid-19 pandemic sparked fierce political division in the US between those who supported lockdowns and vaccination drives, and those who considered the measures as restrictions on freedom.<\/p>\n

Trump, himself vaccinated against Covid-19, has appointed as his Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has initiated an overhaul of American vaccine policy.<\/p>\n

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Kennedy said Moore “deserves a medal for his courage and commitment to healing,” in an X post in April.<\/p>\n

At the end of May, Kennedy announced that federal authorities would no longer recommend Covid-19 jabs for children and pregnant women, prompting accusations from medical groups that he was taking away parents’ ability to opt for vaccinations.<\/p>\n

Kennedy has been accused of spreading vaccine misinformation, including about the measles vaccine, even as the US grapples with its worst measles epidemic in 30 years. — AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

US anti-vaxxer doctor who destroyed Covid jabs, gave fake certs go free after Trump admin pressured to drop charges<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, July 13 — US Attorney General Pam Bondi said yesterday she had ordered charges to be dropped against a doctor accused of destroying Covid-19 jabs and issuing fake vaccination certificates. The abrupt halt to proceedings comes just days after the trial commenced, and is the latest boost to the vaccine-sceptic movement from President Donald…<\/p>\n

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