To celebrate the three-year anniversary of the July 2020 raid and arrest of the Grenon family in their home in Bradenton, Florida, Mark Grenon, the 65-year-old father, and his sons, Jonathan David, 37, Joseph Timothy, 35, and Jordan Paul, 29, appear before U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga in Miami federal court on July 17th, 2023, and could face a maximum life sentence in prison if found guilty.
After initially agreeing to comply with the Food and Drug Administration’s order to cease and desist in the promotion of chlorine dioxide which they had marketed as a church sacrament labeled “MMS” to avoid federal regulations, the Grenons continued to declare their MMS to be a cure for the coronavirus among other maladies, and the FDA ordered to have them arrested, claiming that the Grenons were preying upon elderly, sick, and weak while instructing victims to pay them to drink their bleach.
In the first pandemic-related sting operation in Florida, the family was arrested in 2020 by order of the FDA for failing to obey the order issued by Judge Kathleen Williams, about whom Mark Grenon said was guilty of treason and breaching her oath, asserting “You think we’re afraid of some Obama-appointed judge that broke their oath?” Grenon continued, “You could be taken out, Ms. Williams.”
The Grenons refused representation while facing charges related to selling more than $1 million of the toxic “Miracle Mineral Solution,” commonly referred to as MMS. The family claimed MMS could cure almost any ailment including coronavirus, Alzheimer’s, and malaria, according to the criminal complaint. They remained silent during the hearing.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael B. Homer and John Shipley of the Southern District of Florida are prosecuting on the behalf of the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations who investigated the case and delivered their closing arguments Wednesday afternoon, July 19, 2023.
In 2010 Mark Grenon cofounded a nonreligious “church” organization to freely distribute the MMS bleach formula that was discovered in the late 1990s by former member of the Church of Scientology Jim Humble. Humble, who professed to be a billion-year-old god, began promoting the MMS as early as 2006 as a “cure all” discovery. Jim Humble left the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing in 2017, and “archbishop” Mark Grenon and his sons continued the mission of the church thereafter.
In defense of the separations of church and state, Mark Grenon claimed, “everything you do commercially is under the Universal Commercial Code, okay? A church is completely separate from that code, statutes, and laws. That’s why a priest can give a kid wine in church publicly and not get arrested.”
Mark Grenon, the “archbishop” of the church, gained national notoriety in April 2020 when he sent President Trump a letter praising his “miracle” product. Grenon then took credit for Trump’s suggestion that injecting disinfectant could cure the coronavirus, but Trump later said he was being sarcastic.
The Grenon family warned the FDA and prosecutors to be careful how they treat this family because former President Donald Trump could step in. “My prayer is that Trump steps in, or Barr – I wrote them both – and says dismiss this case and put everything back the way it was,” Mark Grenon said in a YouTube video interview.
On Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in his closing argument, Shipley told the jury, “You cannot go out and create a fake church and violate the law.”
Judge Cecilia Altonaga gave instructions to jurors asserting the Grenons could not use the First Amendment, specifically religious freedom, as a defense for selling the dangerous bleach because their church was not a religious entity.
After a 15-minute deliberation, the 12-person jury issued their guilty verdict, after which Joseph Grenon spoke the only words by the Grenons, “We will be appealing.”
Sentencing has been scheduled for October 6, 2023. At sentencing, the defendants face up to 5 years in prison.
See: October 6 Sentencing Update
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