Back when the COVID-19 vaccines were first rolled out, to the surprise of nobody intelligent, fraud schemes around vaccination cards began to pop up. Groups, including some doctors, were illegally handing out vaccination cards without actually vaccinating anyone. One of those doctors, according to charges brought by the DOJ, was Michael Kirk Moore Jr. in Utah.
The charges were filed in January 2023 under the Biden administration after two separate undercover agents went through the scheme to get a fake vaccination card. The plastic surgeon, Michael Kirk Moore Jr., who owns and operates Plastic Surgery Institute of Utah in Midvale, south of Salt Lake City, as well as the business’ office manager, Kari Dee Burgoyne, its receptionist, Sandra Flores, and Moore’s neighbor, Kristin Jackson Andersen, were charged in the case. All four people faced charges of conspiracy to defraud the federal government, along with two counts related to improper disposal of government property.
What they were doing was bringing in children whose parents didn’t want them to get the vaccine but needed the vaccine card, providing the parents with a card, and then squirting the shots down the drain, while collecting $50 for the cards. Oh, and because we’re talking about awful people here, they then injected saline into the children themselves so that they would think they’d been vaccinated if anyone asked.
Now, whatever you think about the vaccines themselves, or any mandates that may have been in place, is irrelevant. What these people did, if true, is plainly illegal and a waste of taxpayer-funded vaccines. If the DOJ had the evidence to backup the claims, evidence which came out of these undercover investigations, this would be a slam dunk prosecution. The trial for all of this began recently…
…but will now not proceed as the DOJ is dropping the charges.
The trial proceedings against the four had begun recently. But on Saturday, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on social media that ” At my direction @TheJusticeDept has dismissed charges against Dr. Kirk Moore. Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so. He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing. It ends today.”
Also on Saturday, Acting United States Attorney Felice John Viti filed a motion to dismiss the case. The motion stated that “The basis for the motion is that such dismissal is in the interests of justice.”
The lawlessness here is stunning. Again, whatever you think of vaccines or mandates doesn’t change that what the government accused Moore of is illegal. And he most certainly didn’t “give his patients a choice” when you consider that his patients included young children that he lied to and injected with a saline solution. The interest of justice is to do, you know, justice. It is not to take plainly illegal behavior and actively leave it unaddressed for the most vague of reasons.
But, you are surely wondering, why is the DOJ actually doing this, given its vague reasoning. Well…
Media outlets have noted that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US health secretary and ardent anti-vaccine advocate, has championed Moore. In April, Kennedy wrote on social media that “Dr Moore deserves a medal for his courage and his commitment to healing!”
In a social media reply Monday afternoon, Kennedy publicly thanked Bondi for dismissing the case, writing in a nonsensical post: “Thank you, @AGPamBondi, for standing up for informed consent.”
And so it appears that someone favored by RFK Jr., himself a noted anti-vaxxer, has been gifted the status of being above the law, purely because he has friends in government. The law and order party appears to be at work again, showing us just how cynical such self-given monikers are.