A Doctor Claimed he had a ‘Miracle Cure’ for Covid. He’s Going to Prison

In March and April 2020, we saw the coronavirus spread and the isolation of people at home. Meanwhile, a San Diego doctor bragged that he had a “miracle cure” for covid on his hands. According to prosecutors, its name was hydroxychloroquine.

In mass marketing emails from his business, Skinny Beach Med Spa, Jennings Ryan Staley said there was immense use of this drug in his coronavirus “treatment kits,”. Although we saw the scarcity of this drug in those days. But Staley had a way to get it, he later told an undercover federal agent. He planned to smuggle a barrel of hydroxychloroquine powder with the help of a Chinese supplier, prosecutors said.

Staley was sentenced last week to 30 days in prison and a year of home confinement for the scheme. He pleaded guilty last year.

“At the height of the pandemic, before the availability of the vaccine, this doctor sought to capitalize on patients’ fears,” US Attorney Randy Grossman said in a news release. “He abused his position of trust and undermined the integrity of the entire medical profession.”

Staley’s attorney did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday night.

What caused people to have mistaken optimism that hydroxychloroquine could treat covid-19, and what happened as a result of that hope being dashed:

Doctors generally prescribe Hydroxychloroquine for people with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and are used to treat malaria. President Donald Trump repeatedly touted the drug, from the earliest days of the pandemic, as a “game-changer”. Trump’s endorsement caused demand for the drug to surge. It then lead to a shortage and ultimately hurt those who needed it for health issues unrelated to Covid. Later studies found that hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for covid and did not prevent people from getting sick.

According to prosecutors, federal agents began investigating Staley after concerned customers alerted the FBI to marketing emails from Skinny Beach Med Spa. The company advertised “world-class beauty innovations at affordable prices,” court documents show. It offered services including Botox, fat transfer, hair removal, and tattoo removal.

 

The Covid treatment kit came with a 30-day “medical concierge experience,” IV drip, and access to medical hyperbaric oxygen (at an additional fee). Moreover, the prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and anti-anxiety drugs, records show.;

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In late March 2020, an undercover agent responded to one of the emails, asking about the treatment kit, investigators said. When Staley and the agent spoke on the phone shortly afterward, the doctor falsely claimed that hydroxychloroquine was a “magic bullet”. He further claimed it was an “incredible cure” that would keep someone immune to Covid for at least six weeks, according to court records.

“It’s preventative and curative,” Staley told the undercover agent, court documents show. “It’s hard to believe, it’s almost too good to be true. But it is a remarkable clinical phenomenon.”

He added that the virus “literally disappears within hours” after a person takes the drug.

Agent asked if the drug was a “guaranteed” cure for Covid, and Staley said yes. However, he qualified that “there are always exceptions” and “there are no guarantees in life,” court records show.

Staley also told the agent how he obtained the hydroxychloroquine

 

During the call, Staley also told the agent how he obtained the hydroxychloroquine. He said he “smuggled the last tank of hydroxychloroquine out of China,” records show. We saw misled among customers by labeling the barrel “sweet potato extract.” He added that the powder was enough to make 8,000 doses in gelatin capsules.

 

Staley then offered the agent prescriptions for generic versions of Viagra and Xanax. The agent ordered six kits, enough for himself and five members of his family, for $4,000, according to court documents.

Coronavirus helped in the number of millions of dollars given to a man from Florida. “He used it to buy a Lamborghini”.

The charge on Staley happened in mid-April 2020 and pleaded guilty in July 2021. As part of his plea deal, Staley also admitted posing as one of his employees to fill a prescription for hydroxychloroquine to later use in his kits, prosecutors said. And he acceded to accusations that he lied to federal agents during the investigation.

 

“Dr. Staley offered a ‘magic bullet”. He claimed it as a guaranteed cure for COVID-19 to terrified people during a global pandemic,” Turner said in a press statement after Staley pleaded guilty. “He used it to buy a Lamborghini. “Today, Dr. Staley admitted it was all a lie as part of a quick buck scam.”

Staley was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and repay the $4,000

 

As part of his sentence Friday, court-ordered Staley  to pay a $10,000 fine. He has to repay the $4,000 the federal agent paid for his family’s equipment. He also had to hand over “more than 4,500 tablets of various pharmaceutical medications. There were also several bags of empty pill capsules, and a manual capsule-filling machine,” prosecutors said.

 

According to California medical board records,  there is a suspension of Staley’s license temporarily. This is court order.

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