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Florida Man Convicted of Billing Medicare $15 Million for Blood Tests Patients Never Wanted

A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida has convicted a Florida man who was the vice president of a testing laboratory and owned and operated a separate marketing company for his role in a fraud scheme that took advantage of patients who wanted COVID-19 tests during the pandemic and were instead given additional blood tests they did not want or need, for which Medicare was billed over $15 million.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Joseph Rodriguez, 58, of Coral Springs, perpetrated a scheme that exploited elderly patients at residential country clubs in the West Palm Beach area who were desperate for COVID-19 nasal swab and blood antibody tests. 

“The defendant took advantage of patients desperate for COVID-19 tests at the height of the pandemic to bill Medicare for unnecessary blood tests,” said Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division. “Such egregious conduct in the face of a global pandemic cannot stand and will be prosecuted. The Fraud Division remains committed to holding the perpetrators of such schemes accountable.”

When those patients signed up to receive just swab and antibody tests at drive-through testing events at their residence clubs organized by Rodriguez through his marketing company, Phoenix Health, they were, in addition to the COVID-19 tests they wanted, subjected to tens or even hundreds of unnecessary blood tests that they did not want or need, and that no doctor ordered as required. These tests, which ranged from hormone tests to heavy metal tests for arsenic, mercury, and cadmium, were then billed to Medicare as if they were medically necessary and ordered by a treating physician.

“This case highlights a troubling scheme that took advantage of vulnerable patients who sought COVID‑19 testing during a national public health crisis, only to be subjected to additional and unnecessary blood tests intended to increase profits,” said Acting Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Miranda L. Bennett of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG). “By placing personal gain above the well‑being of elderly individuals, the defendant violated their trust and threatened the integrity of our health care system. HHS‑OIG remains steadfast in its mission to protect public health and ensure that individuals who abuse federal health care programs and the people they serve are held fully accountable.”

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New Clarity on the Creation of the Virus/Vaccine

Edward Snowden exposed government surveillance of its citizens. Daniel Ellsberg exposed government lies. US Marine Major Joseph Murphy exposed something larger: the biodefense blueprint behind a pandemic that killed millions. Snowden’s leak sparked a worldwide debate about privacy. Murphy’s leak — the DARPA DEFUSE proposal — should have sparked a global reckoning about the real origins of SARS-CoV-2.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) serves as a venture capital arm of the world’s largest bureaucracy: the Department of Defense. It funds high-risk academic research to protect US troops from future threats. 

One team proposed modifying bat coronaviruses to spread more effectively—not among humans, but mammalian bats. Testing would occur in Wuhan, where the right bat colonies existed. This was not a fringe idea. It was a biodefense concept encouraged by DARPA under the first Trump administration.

Taken together, the 2018 DEFUSE proposal, plus FOIA documents, emails, and peer-reviewed papers, support Murphy’s hypothesis: SARS-CoV-2 was created in US labs but tested in Wuhan, where it accidentally leaked. This theory has since been debated in the scientific literature, including Nature.

The U.S. intelligence community did not miss this. It moved the unclassified 2018 DARPA project, advertised on Twitter, into a classified 2021 folder.

The 2018 Blueprint

The very agencies that claimed to be searching for answers had the facts all along, stored in a top-secret folder. They knew that Peter Daszak (EcoHealth), Zhengli Shi (WIV), Linfa Wang (Duke), and Ralph Baric (UNC) had proposed inserting furin cleavage sites into SARS-like viruses and testing them on Chinese bats in Wuhan.

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Florida AG Sues Pfizer, Bourla Over Deceptive Marketing of COVID Vaccines

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Thursday sued Pfizer and its CEO, Albert Bourla, alleging that the drugmaker misled the public by marketing its COVID-19 vaccine as safe and effective while not disclosing the vaccine’s potential risks to pregnant women, children and teenagers.

The 49-page lawsuit alleges Pfizer violated Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act by deceptively marketing its vaccine to the public in turn for making billions of dollars in profit.

According to the complaint, Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine marketing campaign focused on two principal themes: that the shot “posed no material safety risks” and that “mass vaccination was necessary to stop the transmission of COVID-19” — even though Pfizer never tested the vaccine’s ability to stop the virus from spreading.

Pfizer possessed extensive evidence that its vaccine caused serious adverse events — including 1,223 reported deaths following vaccination as of February 2021 and 52 miscarriages among vaccinated pregnant women. However, the company assured the public the vaccine was safe.

“Today we sued Pfizer for deceptively marketing the products as safe — making billions — while pregnant women were miscarrying their babies and teenagers were having heart attacks,” Uthmeier said in a statement.

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Nurse: Stillbirths Exploded After COVID Shots Hit Maternity Wards

A California labor-and-delivery nurse says her Fresno hospital went from a handful of stillbirths a year to more than 20 in a single month once COVID shots were pushed on pregnant women, then answered the pile-up with an email on how to handle the dead.

The same product is now sitting in a federal file parents were told not to worry about. An analysis of the National Health Interview Survey, published yesterday, finds COVID-vaccinated children had higher odds of autism, ADHD, anxiety and special-education use than children who never received the shot, and the authors say the shots in children should stop.

Michelle Spencer has worked the antepartum, postpartum and labor-and-delivery floor at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno since 2017. In interviews that Children’s Health Defense aired, she described the unit before the pregnancy rollout as a place that saw about four stillbirths a year. After the shots started going into pregnant women, she said, it became four a week, and it did not stop.

A total of 22 stillborn babies in 30 days against a baseline of four a year is more than the previous five years combined, on the order of a 6,500 percent jump in a single month. Spencer’s July 30, 2025 complaint in Fresno County Superior Court used a baseline of one fetal death a month before spring 2021 and about 20 a month after, and calls the rise a statistically significant surge of more than 400 percent.

She has said she cannot pull the hospital’s full record, so the monthly figure is her estimate from the floor. The document that is not an estimate is the email.

In September 2022, nurse manager Julie Christopherson wrote to nursing and technical staff about what the hospital called “demise patients.”

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Doctor suspended over ivermectin importation, Medsafe threats and vaccine claims

A doctor who tried to import 2000 unapproved Covid-19 treatment tablets, threatened health officials, and sent alarmist vaccine claims to a media executive has been suspended from practice.

Timaru general practitioner Dr Tracy Anne Chandler was suspended for three months by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal after it found her guilty of professional misconduct across nine allegations.

The Tribunal found Chandler committed malpractice and negligence during the Covid-19 pandemic between August 2021 and August 2022.

Her conduct included attempting to bulk-import 2000 tablets of unapproved ivermectin from India without specific patients in mind, while telling Medsafe she needed them for “an epidemic of patients with parasites unresponsive to usual treatments”.

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“COVID-19 ‘Vaccination’ of Children Should Cease Immediately”

New research has emerged indicating that children who received the COVID-19 shot have experienced significantly higher rates of various health conditions, including increases in autism, Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), neurodevelopmental disorders, special education needs, asthma, anxiety, and more.

The study, titled “Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in COVID-19-Vaccinated Versus Unvaccinated U.S. Children: Analysis of the National Health Interview Survey, 2022–2024,” was published today on Zenodo, a free and open-access research repository managed by CERN and OpenAIRE.

The Gateway Pundit spoke to one of the authors of the study, Nicolas Hulscher, who said, “We analyzed official U.S. government data from 21,990 children and found a consistent association between childhood COVID-19 vaccination and higher odds of autism, ADHD, anxiety, special-education use, and mental-health treatment.”

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Federal Survey Of 21,990 Kids Ties COVID Shots To AUTISM, ADHD

A new analysis of the federal National Health Interview Survey finds children who received a COVID-19 shot had higher odds of autism, ADHD, anxiety, asthma and special-education use than children who did not. 

The authors, including epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher and cardiologist Peter McCullough, say the pattern survived a long list of statistical controls and rose with dose count. 

Their conclusion is blunt: COVID-19 vaccination of children should cease immediately.

The paper, posted October 5 on the Zenodo repository, pools the 2022–2024 Sample Child files. It covers 21,990 children aged 0–17 with a recorded COVID vaccination status, and 19,882 aged 2–17 for the autism, ADHD and learning-disability items. 

“Unvaccinated” in this comparison means no COVID-19 vaccine. It does not mean the child skipped the routine schedule.

Set against children who never received a COVID shot, COVID-vaccinated children had:

  • 32 percent higher odds of current autism
  • 26 percent higher odds of a lifetime autism diagnosis
  • 33 percent higher odds of ADHD
  • 23 percent higher odds of any neurodevelopmental diagnosis
  • 19 percent higher odds of special-education use
  • 24 percent higher odds of asthma
  • 27 percent higher odds of daily or weekly anxiety
  • 57 percent higher odds of mental-health medication
  • 60 percent higher odds of mental-health therapy

The steepest autism estimate landed where parents were told the product was a routine precaution. Among children aged 5 to 7, three or more COVID shots were linked to 154 percent higher odds of current autism. Ages 2 to 7 with three or more doses sat at 137 percent higher odds.

The odds also climbed with the number of shots. Against children who received none, current-autism odds were 3 percent higher after one dose, 25 percent higher after two, and 40 percent higher after three or more.

Hulscher told The Gateway Pundit the association “persisted across numerous adjustment strategies, strengthened with increasing dose count, and reached its largest estimate in some of the youngest multiply vaccinated children.” 

He added: “This is a safety signal that must not be ignored. Endangering the developing brain is a red line. COVID-19 ‘vaccination’ of children should cease immediately.”

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Desperate Cries for Help the CDC Ignored

A damning review of V-safe data by Brownstone Institute and REACT19 shows desperate cries for help, suicidal thoughts, and reports of death from thousands after being injured by a Covid-19 vaccine—all of which CDC ignored.

The following is a small sample of these pleas for help. If you are one of these people, please reach out to ICAN at info@icandecide.org.

1. TH4-17845-77781 05/14/21 “My wife (b)(6) is in a tremendous amount of pain from her first shot of Phizer. PLEASE help her. No one else is helping her. Put her in touch witb some expert in this vaccine area. Please i am begging you to help (b)(6)”
2. 8U5-27402-70028 04/13/21 “This is ridiculous. Nobody is reading this. She had a reaction within 20 minutes of vaccine and died. Have been reporting her death to you all since beginning of check in — Death”
3. N7P-10593-65876 04/29/21 “She died and clearly no one reads this. Clearly the CDC is just a joke? — She DIED!!!!!!!!”
4. YNF-19085-18961 04/24/21 “My hand numbness/tingling is continuing. No one has any answers except it should have gone away by now. I don’t have insurance and can’t afford a doctor. I NEED HELP!”
5. VP6-27753-73007 05/25/21 “Patient is deceased due to the complications of the Pfizer vaccine, is anyone even reading this as I already mentioned the passing away in the last one?? Kaiser said that they have lodged complaint to CDC, please follow up, thank you”
6. CNN-58498-17589 10/01/22 “Medical examiner declaring [name] dead — (b)(6) died soon after the vacine. I replied 3 times now. CDC is inefficient”
7. 4QG-33889-09489 04/28/21 “I have vertigo since March 18th after second Pfizer dose. I have asked for HELP here and no one responds. My doctor has no advise. Pfizer does not respond. HELP PLEASE!!!”
8. 5VS-90097-00645 01/15/21 “I have been deathly ill since I received the covid vaccine on 12/23. No one knows what happened to me and no one is helping me. I feel like I am going to die.”
9. 5HH-33715-67821 05/15/21 “Everything is the same as the very first one I completed just much worse. I can’t take much more of this. No one is helping and I’m ready to kill myself”
10. K4A-31774-82113 05/16/21 “I need help and I cannot get it — My mental health seems so bad as though I am not taking my meds i am suicidal”
11. QWJ-31177-09174 05/17/21 “I had a frightening allergic reaction. I was so incapacitated I couldnt reach my cellphone for help. Once I did, and tried to report my reaction, nobody seemed to care. I was afraid I was going to die.”
12. RR2-30038-54302 03/26/21 “I feel like Im going to die. I cant get out of be except to pee. And you guys dont care. Why dont you good afternoon lab rat how are you feeling todat”
13. KDR-22243-72993 01/13/21 “I continue to have peripheral neuropathy on my hands and feet, along with joint pain in my hands. I have received 2 calls from people reporting to be from VAERS and each time they say they will call me back, and no one does. This is very concerning”
14. NCN-22385-46012 01/18/21 “Again, heart palpitations and chest pain with squeezing tightness and tachycardia. Went to doctor today for it. Now have to wear heart monitor. Still have not heard from anyone regarding my symptoms. Again, is anyone reading this? This is concerning for me as I do not have a history of this an am an avid outdoors/ active person. monitor”
15. 7EJ-80298-92811 04/20/21 “Bells Palsy and no assistance from this siteIve even called in and no one returns calls. This is a waste of time. I am miserable and cant blink my eye. This vaccine has cause me a lot of issues and I wish someone would help me.”
16. 9T2-27109-51696 05/16/21 “Cant breathe cant sleep constant diarrhea constant headaches urinating in pain. But what do you care because nobody calls me up and asked me whats going on. Im living in a society where nobody gives a shit.”
17. B3A-39378-11603 05/18/21 “I think I have a blood clot and no one will help me! — Chest pain over my heart leg pain Abdamin pain left shoulder pain neck pain face pain up to eye forearm pain and numbness leg numbness from toes up to hip with pain level at a 10 clammy and elbow pain”
18. SBQ-48267-08351 05/18/21 “Please help. It started with the first vaccine. My mind is foggy. I cant think, I cant do what I need to do. Its been months and it wont go away. I feel like Im in a medicated haze and I feel like Im gone from my own body. Please he — Seeing a neurologist”
19. TLV-72107-82752 04/08/21 “Since I got my first dose I’ve had EBV and was subsequently diagnosed with CAEBV. I’m so tired and bedridden. I can’t get anyone to help me from the health dept, or moderna. my own doctor says he doesn’t have any info so Im trying (b)(6)”
20. UE7-20099-12127 04/13/21 “I’m continuing to lose my vision!!! The vaccine began attacking my eyes within minutes after the injection. Within days it began to attack other organs. Pfizer said they haven’t trained any doctors to help people with adverse side effects.I need help”
21. EFB-34394-29376 07/25/22 “Can’t remember-can’t feel legs from knees down, trouble breathing, can’t walk long (can’t walk to back of store) need caretaker/can’t live alone need HELP please call (b)(6) need you/cant afford medicine or food if these prices keep going up!”
22. SSJ-22140-08717 01/13/21 “Feeling electricity pulsing throughout my bady can’t walk. Inna wheelchair. Need help with mu Adls”
23. Q3M-20490-56119 04/20/21 “Massive lower back pain. I can’t leave bed and if I do, need help. I can’t walk by myself”
24. FD3-11429-68175 05/22/21 “Body stiffness,cramping, I feel like Im paralyzed at times from waist down. I need someone to call me (b)(6) and advise me on where to go for help. Ive gone to my physician & ER and they say they cant help me!”
25. LHW-12596-84447 04/28/21 “My fave gets numb on left side all day,afternoon, and evenings. Im afraid of having anotherstroke, anxious about hurting or killing a student whole driving my school bus, and more that you all don’t care about as you are doing nothing to help me as.”
26. ZWL-10153-73969 05/16/21 “I am not sure if anyone reads this. You keep wanting to know how I feel? I keep telling you that I am dizzy after getting my shot but do you really care? Not once has anyone reached out to me with any advice or help. So my symptoms are still the same”
27. SSJ-17957-30619 04/17/21 “Severe dizzyness. Checking in now on my forth week with dizzyness. Is anyone reading my posts? Would appreciate some help or advice. — Mri of brain and bloodwork”
28. 5RL-83717-71050 05/19/21 “Left shoulder still pain 8/10 from first shot. Someone please help. No one has answers.”
29. K2T-27246-93955 01/17/21 “Ive had a severe headache since 1/12/21 no insurance no one would help me not even you”
30. Z4E-55161-40006 04/28/21 “Severe breast and lymph node pain and swelling. Can someone please tell me if this is normal? Why am I taking the time to fill this out if no one will help me?”
31. NNU-57946-51050 05/21/21 “My entire left leg and foot are huge. I’m so swollen in just left leg. No one will help me. — Dr office”
32. JAY-45842-49882 04/10/21 “Ringing in the ears has gotten worse and I need some help. Its constant and extremely bothersome and no one has been able to help.”
33. CSA-15636-44924 04/19/21 “Bruising under the rash, rash on my legs, itching in my shoulders and neck. And I cant get anyone on the line to help me. I need help”
34. JFY-64443-76361 05/16/21 “Im itching again and it makes me miserable. Can someone call me. Ive given u my number and no one calls. If someone doesnt, then quit sending me these texts. (b)(6)”
35. X32-32274-36534 03/27/21 “Still have throat and ear trouble and taking medicine. Have had this since the first shot. Does anyone read this ???!!!”
36. UAZ-61061-88619 04/21/21 “More eye issues…why report when nobody reads these and follows up? Oh never mind…the vaccine negativity cannot be shown to anyone”
37. Q7J-17375-77056 04/22/21 “Flu like symptoms with fever haven’t stopped why don’t you help me please I can’t take it?”

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Taxpayer-Funded Cat Pipeline Exposes Animal Dealer That Supplied Animals for COVID and Virus Experiments at Cornell and Colorado State

A little-known lab animal dealer has been quietly feeding cats into taxpayer-funded virus experiments at major universities, according to records obtained by the watchdog White Coat Waste Project.

White Coat Waste’s latest investigation identifies Clinvet as a Class B dealer and research facility with ties to Marshall BioResources, one of the country’s largest commercial breeders of dogs and cats for laboratories.

Shipping and donation records show Clinvet has supplied cats that ended up in COVID and feline immunodeficiency virus studies paid for by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

At Cornell University, Clinvet donated cats for experiments in which researchers infected healthy animals with COVID, isolated them, and monitored them as they became sick.

Some cats used as controls were killed without ever being infected.

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Florida Attorney General files lawsuit against Pfizer for deceptive practices relating to its covid “vaccine”

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a lawsuit against Pfizer and CEO Albert Bourla, accusing the company of deceptive practices involving the marketing and safety claims surrounding its mRNA covid-19 vaccine.

Uthmeier said Pfizer presented mass vaccination as necessary to stop the spread of covid-19 while assuring the public that there were no significant safety concerns.  “Pfizer told Florida families that mass vaccination with their mRNA covid vaccine was necessary to stop the spread, and that there were no material safety risks,” Uthmeier said.

He specifically pointed to comments from Bourla that, according to Uthmeier, pressured people to take the vaccine by suggesting they would otherwise endanger those closest to them.  “CEO Albert Bourla said, ‘If you didn’t take it, you were putting the people you love the most at risk. He called people who asked questions criminals,” Uthmeier said.

The attorney general also criticised Pfizer’s public statements about potential safety concerns following the widespread distribution of the vaccine. “In January 2023, after billions of doses, he said Pfizer had not seen a single safety signal,” Uthmeier said.

Uthmeier argued that Pfizer had enormous financial incentives surrounding the vaccine and spent heavily on advertising while generating tens of billions of dollars from sales.  “They spent 10 billion dollars on advertising. They brought in more than 80 billion from the vaccine alone,” Uthmeier said.

At the centre of Florida’s allegations is Uthmeier’s claim that the company failed to adequately disclose information about potential risks.  “What they didn’t say was that they knew about myocarditis in teenagers and young adults,” Uthmeier said.

He further claimed that Pfizer had received thousands of reports involving adverse events.  “They had reports of 1,000s of adverse events, including stroke and death, and they had reason to know the shot posed risks to pregnant women and unborn babies in the first trimester,” Uthmeier said.

Uthmeier also referenced information he said was recently revealed by Senators Rand Paul and Ron Johnson involving Dr. Anthony Fauci and concerns about pregnancy.  “Recently, Senators Paul and Johnson revealed that Dr. Anthony Fauci texted that the second dose theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester,” Uthmeier said.

According to Uthmeier, other federal health officials were aware of the discussion while pregnant women continued to be told that vaccination was safe.  “The CDC director and the Surgeon General agreed, but pregnant women, nevertheless, were told it was safe,” Uthmeier said.

The Florida attorney general also alleged that Pfizer had not established whether the vaccine prevented transmission before making claims about the broader public-health benefits of vaccination.  “Pfizer hadn’t even tested whether the vaccine stopped transmission,” Uthmeier said.

He said those allegations form the basis of the state’s lawsuit against Pfizer and Borla.  “That’s why we filed a lawsuit today against Pfizer and Albert Borla for their deceptive practices; what they did was wrong,” Uthmeier said.

Uthmeier framed the legal action as an effort to challenge what he described as a failure to provide Florida families with complete information about the vaccine.  “They assumed Florida families could not be trusted with the truth. Well, we disagree,” Uthmeier said.

He concluded by promising that his office would pursue accountability through the lawsuit.  “My office will hold them accountable. Thank you.”

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