Mark Grenon, sons sold $1M worth of toxic ‘Miracle Mineral Solution’: DOJ
A Florida father of eight and fake church leader who marketed toxic bleach as a “Miracle Mineral Solution” to cure ailments including COVID-19, cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, autism and HIV/AIDS, sold more than $1 million worth of the product to desperate followers.
And for that, along with defying federal court orders, Mark Grenon, the 62-year-old father who serves as leader of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing (not a Christian church), and his three sons — Jonathan Grenon, 34, Jordan Grenon, 26, and Joseph Grenon, 32 — were all indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami the Department of Justice announced Friday.
While they marketed Miracle Mineral Solution as a godsend cure, the indictment described it as a toxic "chemical solution containing sodium chlorite and water which, when ingested orally, becomes chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleach typically used for industrial water treatment or bleaching textiles, pulp, and paper."
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The Grenons, according to the indictment, claimed that ingesting MMS could treat COVID-19 despite warnings from the Food and Drug Administration.
Even though the FDA had not approved MMS for any use, the Grenons allegedly sold tens of thousands of bottles of MMS nationwide, including to consumers throughout South Florida, under the guise of Genesis II Church of Health and Healing.
Genesis II, which is a non-religious entity, was allegedly used as a cover to avoid government regulation of MMS and shield the Grenons from prosecution, according to charging documents.
“ ... Defendant Mark Grenon, the co-founder of Genesis, has repeatedly acknowledged that Genesis ‘has nothing to do with religion,’ and that he founded Genesis to ‘legalize the use of MMS’ and avoid ‘going [ ] to jail,’” the release from the DOJ said.
Authorities also noted that donations to acquire MMS were “effectively just sales prices” because orders were set at specific dollar amounts. The Grenons are further charged with criminal contempt, according to the indictment, for violating a court order in a civil case to stop distributing MMS.
“The Grenons also allegedly threatened the federal judge presiding over the civil case, and threatened that, should the government attempt to enforce the court orders halting their distribution of MMS, the Grenons would ‘pick up guns’ and instigate ‘a Waco,’” the DOJ’s release on Friday said.
Mark Grenon argued in an interview with Natural News in 2020 that his family has been fighting with federal authorities about their support for MMS for about 10 years, but admitted that things only escalated a year ago when they were sent a warning to “stop” distributing their MMS “sacraments.”
“The FDA said we should stop giving our sacraments to the world and we just basically said ‘No, we have the First Amendment,’” Grenon said. “It says we have the free exercise of religious beliefs,” despite being a “non-religious church,” as was noted on his website at the time.
Grenon explained that when he started Genesis in 2010 in the Dominican Republic, he was contacted by U.S. authorities within a week.
He said he believes in using MMS because it cured his Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — also known as MRSA — infection he developed years ago while working as a missionary pilot. Other family members suffered from the infection and it cured them, too, he said.
“That really motivated us to tell the world; we cannot stop telling people what happened to us,” he added.
