'Church' made $1m selling bleach as cure for HIV and autism: prosecutors

A Florida family is set to go to trial on charges that they ran an online "church" that pushed an industrial bleach as a cures for HIV, autism, COVID and multiple other illnesses, The Miami Herald reported. Their trial is set to start this week.

The Genesis II Church of Health and Healing was operated by the Grenon family out of a home in Bradenton, Florida. They claimed their “Miracle Mineral Solution” was a cure for 95 percent of the world’s known diseases.

According to investigators, the family made over $1 million before federal authorities cracked down on them for selling unapproved cures. One of the products pushed by the family was a poisonous industrial bleaching agent that was marketed as a miracle cure.

Mark Grenon and his sons Jonathan Grenon, Joseph Grenon and Jordan Grenon, were arrested and charged after they continued to distribute and advertise the substance, called “Miracle Mineral Solution," in defiance of court orders.

Investigators say the substance was responsible for several deaths, as well as severe illness and hospitalization.

"The Genesis II Church of Health and Healing has marketed MMS in violation of federal law since 2010, criminal complaints allege. It was in that year that Mark Grenon claims to have founded the organization with a man named Jim Humble in a plan to avoid governmental regulation and arrest as they promoted MMS as a miracle cure," The Miami Herald's report stated.

"Humble, a man who has dabbled in Scientology and professed to be a billion-year-old god, began promoting MMS as early as 2006 in self-published works after he claimed to have discovered its medical properties while on a gold-mining expedition in South America. After Humble supposedly stepped away from the organization in 2017, Grenon continued to manufacture, promote and sell MMS with his three sons."

Read the full report at The Miami Herald.