A three-year chase for a Utah male implicated of positioning as a medical physician to sell scam remedies for a range of illness, consistingof COVID-19, hasactually come to an end.
Gordon Hunter Pedersen offered a “structural alkaline silver” item online as a preventative remedy for COVID-19 early in the pandemic, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah stated in a declaration. He likewise declared in YouTube videos to be a board-certified “Anti-Aging Medical Doctor” with a Ph.D. in immunology and naturopathic medication, according to the release, while wearing a white laboratory coat and stethoscope in his online existence.
An arrest warrant for Pedersen, 63, was provided in August 2020 after he stoppedworking to appear in federal court on an indictment. He was captured earlier this month by federal representatives “during monitoring,” authorities stated.
The indictment charges Pedersen with mail scams, wire scams, and felony intro of misbranded drugs into interstate commerce with intent to defraud and mislead.
Pedersen’s plans began around 2014, according to the indictment. He offered silver items as a treatment for arthritis, diabetes, influenza, pneumonia, and, more justrecently, COVID-19, the indictment included. He was captured in April 2020, when the scam treatments were delivered to a Food and Drug Administration undercover representative utilizing an alias.
The items were offered through his business, GP Silver LLC, and My Doctor Suggests LLC, of which he owned 25%.
In a podcast interview in March 2020, Pedersen declared his item ruined germs, infections, and yeast all at on