A grand jury indictment charges a Southern California doctor with selling a pineapple extract as a cure to cancer, despite objections from the Food and Drug Administration, reports Patheos.
Doctor Benedict Liao of the Oeyama-Moto Cancer Research Foundation in West Covina is accused of defrauding hundreds of customers out of $1.6 million. He charged patients as much as $2,000 per bottle.
Twice the FDA denied his application to submit Allesgen for clinical review.
“Liao knowingly devised a scheme to defraud purchasers of the drug Allesgen and to obtain money by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses and the concealment of material facts,” prosecutors wrote in the indictment, reported the OC Weekly.
The paper reports Liao has been forced to give up his passport and has been freed on $75,000 bail.
He also advertised his product in Asian publications.
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