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Part-time actor gets prison time for bogus COVID cure

  • A part-time actor, Keith Middlebrook, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for wire fraud related to fake COVID-19 cures.
  • Middlebrook solicited investments, claiming to have developed a patent-pending cure and treatment for COVID-19.
  • He falsely claimed that Laker great Earvin 'Magic' Johnson was a director at his company and guaranteed enormous returns.
  • Middlebrook was arrested after delivering pills that he claimed prevented COVID-19 to an undercover FBI agent posing as an investor.
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