Leaders of "Genesis II Church of Health and Healing," Who Sold Toxic Bleach As Fake "Miracle" Cure For COVID-19 and Other Serious Diseases, Sentenced To More Than 12 Years In Federal Prison
government report · 2023
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SUMMARY
DOJ press release, fetched via an Internet Archive snapshot (2026-07-18; justice.gov's live site returns an automated-traffic challenge page to direct fetches). Dated 'Friday, October 6, 2023.' States a federal judge in Miami sentenced Jonathan Grenon (37) and Jordan Grenon (29) to 151 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States by distributing an unapproved and misbranded drug and for criminal contempt of court, and sentenced Mark Grenon (66) and Joseph Grenon (36) to 60 months, the statutory maximum for the conspiracy count; all four were found guilty by a federal jury after a trial in summer 2023. States the Grenons (of Bradenton, Florida) manufactured, promoted, and sold Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS), a sodium-chlorite solution that becomes chlorine dioxide industrial bleach when ingested; that they marketed it first as a cure-all for cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and leukemia and later as a COVID-19 cure; that they sold tens of thousands of bottles nationwide and received more than $1 million; and that they operated under the name 'Genesis II Church of Health and Healing,' created, per the release, to 'avoid government regulation of MMS and shield themselves from prosecution.' States Mark Grenon 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.' States the underlying civil case is United States v. Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, et al., No. 20-21601-CV-WILLIAMS, in which the United States obtained court orders halting distribution, which the Grenons violated; that the Grenons threatened the presiding judge and said that if the government tried to enforce the orders they would 'pick up guns' and instigate 'a Waco'; that trial evidence showed a shed in Jonathan Grenon's Bradenton backyard holding nearly 10,000 pounds of sodium chlorite powder labeled toxic and flammable; and that Mark and Joseph Grenon were extradited from Colombia. Criminal case number 21-cr-20242, Southern District of Florida.
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The Department of Justice’s own sentencing press release is the primary record of the criminal case’s outcome: the exact sentences, the defendants’ ages, the government’s characterization of Genesis II Church as a liability shield rather than a religious body (quoting Mark Grenon’s own admissions), the scale of the operation (tens of thousands of bottles, over $1 million in revenue, nearly 10,000 pounds of raw sodium chlorite), and the Grenons’ threats against the presiding federal judge. Retrieved via the Internet Archive because justice.gov’s live site presents an automated bot-verification interstitial to direct programmatic fetches; the archived copy carries the same official DOJ press-release text and is dated by the page itself (“Friday, October 6, 2023” / “Updated October 6, 2023”).