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The Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) has dismissed the charges brought against a Utah-based plastic surgeon and his team, who crafted a strategy to help patients subvert the COVID-19 shot mandates.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Saturday in a social media post that, at her direction, the DOJ “has dismissed charges against” Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, Jr.
“Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so,” Bondi wrote. “He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing. It ends today.”
Moore, his office associates Kari Dee Burgoyne and Sandra Flores, and his neighbor, Kristin Jackson Andersen, participated in the scheme to assist patients who refused to submit to the government mandates.
The physician posed for a photo Thursday with Bondi, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, and Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.
“Thank you so much for championing our case!” Moore said to Greene. “Your passion and persistence to stop the tyranny lifted a weight I had been carrying for so long. Pleasure meeting you in person. You are a true, genuine patriot.”
In January 2023, investigative journalist Jordan Schachtel wrote at The Dossier that many Utah parents, faced with immense social and governmental pressure, ultimately gave consent to have their children injected with the experimental mRNA shots.
In Moore, however, “some lucky parents” found a way to defeat the mandates.
A federal indictment charged the doctor with “Running a COVID 19 Vaccine Scheme To Defraud The Government and CDC,” Schachtel noted.
A Health and Human Services (HHS) special agent reportedly wrote in the indictment: “By allegedly falsifying vaccine cards and administering saline shots to children instead of COVID-19 vaccines, not only did this provider endanger the health and well-being of a vulnerable population, but also undermined public trust and the integrity of federal health care programs.”
The agent added that HHS “remains committed to working with our law enforcement partners to hold accountable bad actors who attempt to illegally profit from the pandemic.”
A federal grand jury charged Moore and his three associates with disposing of “at least more than $28,000 worth of COVID-19 vaccines,” producing nearly 2,000 fake vaccination record cards, and injecting children – at their parents’ request – with saline solution in place of the mRNA shots.
As The Hill reported, the indictment also accused Moore of asking for cash or requiring “donations” in exchange for the saline shots and fake vaccination cards.
In his 2023 column, however, Schachtel noted that anonymous individuals familiar with Moore’s undercover plan “insisted that Dr Moore did not make a single dollar from the program.”
“One source noted that he actually spent money out of his own pocket to facilitate it, so not only did he not make money, he depleted his own bank account to pull off the endeavor,” the report observed. “Multiple sources added that some patients insisted on compensating him for his work. In response, Dr Moore advised them to instead donate the funds to a charity he supported but was not involved with.”
Additionally, Schachtel reported that a number of sources “also wanted to make clear that this was no rogue bait and switch operation, but that patients were fully aware of the process the entire time.”
There were parents as well who wanted to ensure their children were protected from having any knowledge of the plan, the sources asserted.
“Some parents requested that their kids receive injections of saline instead of simply dumping out the shot, so that their children would be out of the loop on what was going on,” Schachtel wrote.
Moore’s trial had already begun a week prior to Bondi’s announcement that the DOJ would drop the charges against the physician. He could have faced a total of 35 years in prison.
According to an update to Schachtel’s column posted after its publication, Moore’s attorneys commented that the doctor and his staff pleaded “not guilty to all federal charges.”
“They broke no laws and harmed no person,” the team said. “Dr Moore, specifically, abided by his long held Hippocratic oath to First Do No Harm. We believe he and his co-defendants will be found innocent of all charges.”
“We believe this case is unprecedented and threatens the individual Constitutional, God-given individual rights and freedoms of families, parents, children, employees, business owners and Americans in all walks of life!” they asserted, adding that “every day we are strengthened and overwhelmed by the thoughts, prayers and support we are receiving from members of our local community, colleagues in the medical profession, from our fellow Americans across the country and freedom-loving people around the world.”
Doctors who have embraced the medical freedom movement called for support of their “hero” colleague and now celebrate Moore’s freedom.
“Justice triumphs over EVIL!” OB/GYN James Thorp, M.D. applauded on the X platform Thursday. “Dr Kirk Moore saved thousands from injury & death from the COVID-19 vaccine. Bondi dismisses the case in the midst of his trial… He was facing 35 years in jail. Prayers answered.”
And at Brownstone Institute, internal medicine physician Clayton J. Baker, M.D. urged “Americans and free people everywhere” to “celebrate Dr. Moore’s exoneration and actively promote it as a victory for justice itself.”
“Not only is a good man free from further persecution, but the vital message has been sent that – at least under this administration – it is possible to act according to one’s conscience against state tyranny without suffering personal annihilation,” Baker declared.