DOJ drops charges against Utah surgeon accused of injecting fake COVID-19 shots and destroying $28K of real vaccines
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The Justice Department has decided to dismiss the charges against a Utah physician who was accused of profiting close to $100,000 from individuals opposed to vaccinations by providing them with fake COVID-19 shots, while simultaneously discarding real vaccines valued in the thousands.

On Saturday, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed her decision to have her department abandon the case against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore. He had previously faced charges including conspiracy to defraud the government. Bondi stated that the lengthy 35-year prison sentence was unjustified for Dr. Moore.

“At my direction @TheJusticeDept has dismissed charges against Dr. Kirk Moore,” Bondi posted on X.

“Dr. Moore offered his patients an alternative, which the federal government failed to provide. The extensive prison term he was facing was not warranted. That ends here and now.”

Moore, along with two of his staffers and a neighbor, was initially charged in 2023 for distributing at least 1,900 fake COVID-19 vaccination records from his Plastic Surgery Institute of Utah Inc. office in Midvale in exchange for nearly $97,000 or donations.

Prosecutors alleged that Moore, a board certified plastic surgeon, injected some children with saline shots, at their parents request, instead of the immunization jab before sending them off with the phony vax cards. 

The indictment, obtained by The Post, claimed that Moore and his neighbor, Kristin Jackson Anderson, were part of a secret group aimed to “liberate the medical profession from government and industry conflicts of interest.”

To pull it off, the duo teamed up with officer manager Kari Dee Burgoyne and receptionist Sandra Flores to trash $28,000 worth of government-provided vaccines, prosecutors alleged. 

The foursome, as well as the medical office, was charged with conspiracy to defraud the US; conspiracy to convert, sell, convey, and dispose of government property; and conversion, sale, conveyance, and disposal of government property and aiding and abetting.

It’s unclear whether charges against the other members of the alleged scheme have also been dropped. 

The move by the federal agency comes just days after Moore’s expected two-week trial began Monday in Salt Lake city with jury selection. 

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been criticized for his approach to vaccines and peddling unproven treatments, voiced his support for Moore back in April – declaring that he “deserves a medal for his courage and his commitment to healing!”

Acting US Attorney for Utah Felice John Viti filed a motion Saturday stating that dismissing the case is in the “interests of justice.”

With Post wires.

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