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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn apparent desperation, AG Pam Bondi drops a closely watched criminal case
The attorney general intervened in a case important to the far-right fringe just as she was looking to improve her standing with the far-right fringe.
AG Pam Bondi intervened in a trial important to the far-right fringe â before jurors could consider evidence â just as she was looking to improve her standing with the far-right fringe.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-07-14T18:54:23.746Z
Her decision to drop the criminal case against Kirk Moore deserves to be seen as a scandal unto itself.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ag-pam-bondi-drops-closely-watched-criminal-case-plastic-surgeon-utah-rcna218687
Its against this backdrop that the struggling AG made a striking announcement over the weekend. The Associated Press reported:
For those who arent mired in far-right fever swamps, Moores name is probably unfamiliar. But in some right-wing circles, he and the case against him have become a subject of intense interest lately.
The criminal case against Moore was relatively straightforward. The Utah-based plastic surgeon, according to evidence compiled by federal prosecutors, allegedly destroyed over $28 million worth of government-provided Covid vaccines, issued fraudulent vaccination record cards in some instances, in exchange for cash and administered saline shots to children instead of the Covid vaccine.....
It was around this time when Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia embraced Moores case as a rallying cry, asking the Justice Department to abandon the case.
Five days later, Bondi did exactly that, insisting that the Utah doctor did not deserve the prison sentence he was facing. The attorney general specifically credited Greene, one of the most right-wing members of Congress in recent memory, for bringing the case to her attention and for having been a warrior for Dr. Moore.
To be sure, its possible that Bondi wouldve intervened in the case even if many MAGA activists werent calling for her ouster, but its quite a coincidence that the attorney general scrambled to intervene in a case important to the far-right fringe just as she was looking to improve her standing with the far-right fringe.
As for the larger context, the nations chief law enforcement officer effectively declared that those who commit professional fraud, on purpose, can expect to get away with overt criminal misconduct if (a) conservatives approve of the motivation behind the fraud; (b) the attorney general is feeling politically desperate; or (c) some combination of the two.
The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away Covid-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on the social media platform X that charges against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, of Midvale, Utah, were dismissed at her direction.
For those who arent mired in far-right fever swamps, Moores name is probably unfamiliar. But in some right-wing circles, he and the case against him have become a subject of intense interest lately.
The criminal case against Moore was relatively straightforward. The Utah-based plastic surgeon, according to evidence compiled by federal prosecutors, allegedly destroyed over $28 million worth of government-provided Covid vaccines, issued fraudulent vaccination record cards in some instances, in exchange for cash and administered saline shots to children instead of the Covid vaccine.....
It was around this time when Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia embraced Moores case as a rallying cry, asking the Justice Department to abandon the case.
Five days later, Bondi did exactly that, insisting that the Utah doctor did not deserve the prison sentence he was facing. The attorney general specifically credited Greene, one of the most right-wing members of Congress in recent memory, for bringing the case to her attention and for having been a warrior for Dr. Moore.
To be sure, its possible that Bondi wouldve intervened in the case even if many MAGA activists werent calling for her ouster, but its quite a coincidence that the attorney general scrambled to intervene in a case important to the far-right fringe just as she was looking to improve her standing with the far-right fringe.
As for the larger context, the nations chief law enforcement officer effectively declared that those who commit professional fraud, on purpose, can expect to get away with overt criminal misconduct if (a) conservatives approve of the motivation behind the fraud; (b) the attorney general is feeling politically desperate; or (c) some combination of the two.
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Cheezoholic
(3,095 posts)1. Or she thinks she's recruiting a base for a Prez run roflmao!!.... I use "thinks" quite loosely ;) n/t
Baitball Blogger
(50,443 posts)2. So incredibly corrupt.
Congress people who voted her in are vile scum too.
Johonny
(24,130 posts)3. Trump America where nothing is illegal
And everything is illegal, it just depends on the whims of the state.
dalton99a
(89,376 posts)4. Bondi is probably the worst attorney general in U.S. history.
Probably worse than John Mitchell
GoodRaisin
(10,322 posts)5. Easily the most corrupt.
Thats why Krasnov picked her.