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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMueller Target Raised $25,000 In Charity To Pay Cancer Doctor Who Doesn't Appear To Exist
Jerome Corsi, the right-wing author ensnared in the special counsels probe, raised tens of thousands of dollars on his website and web show over the summer for an Alaskan man who claimed he needed experimental cancer surgery from an Israeli physician.
To help raise the funds, Corsi touted Dr. Eliat Mendelsohn, claiming the oncologist miraculously cured his relatives stage-4 liver cancer. Corsi claimed on his website Mendelsohn would use similar techniques to try to cure Thomas Sickler, 33, of bladder cancer.
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But there are two main problems with the fundraiser. TheDCNF couldnt find any records proving Dr. Eliad Mendelsohn exists. And Sickler, the purported patient, is the registered owner of Mendelsohn Consulting Group, the same clinic Corsi links to on his website boosting Dr. Mendelsohn.
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The Israeli medical center where Corsi claimed Mendelsohn practices says it has no records of the physician working there. A spokesman for the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv told TheDCNF nobody named Dr. Eliad Mendelsohn practices at the facility.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/13/corsi-mueller-doctor-cancer/
To help raise the funds, Corsi touted Dr. Eliat Mendelsohn, claiming the oncologist miraculously cured his relatives stage-4 liver cancer. Corsi claimed on his website Mendelsohn would use similar techniques to try to cure Thomas Sickler, 33, of bladder cancer.
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But there are two main problems with the fundraiser. TheDCNF couldnt find any records proving Dr. Eliad Mendelsohn exists. And Sickler, the purported patient, is the registered owner of Mendelsohn Consulting Group, the same clinic Corsi links to on his website boosting Dr. Mendelsohn.
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The Israeli medical center where Corsi claimed Mendelsohn practices says it has no records of the physician working there. A spokesman for the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv told TheDCNF nobody named Dr. Eliad Mendelsohn practices at the facility.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/13/corsi-mueller-doctor-cancer/
This seems to be a case of a RW site committing journalism. "The Mendelsohn Group"'s twitter feed is a bog standard Republican booster: https://twitter.com/The_Mendelsohn ; its website is just a "contact us" placeholder: https://mendelsohnconsulting.com/ . The @DrMendelsohn twitter account is another one not talking about medicine at all, just far right memes, with a bogus picture of a doctor too young to fit Corsi's description: https://twitter.com/drmendelsohn?lang=en
Corsi was marketing 'Dr. Mendelsohn' in June:
Link to tweet
Assuming the Daily Caller is right that Corsi makes the claim about his wife's cousin (it was in an hour-long online show, and they don't say when - too much hassle to listen to it all), then Corsi cannot just have been hoodwinked by Sickler; he's an active participant. This all seems like simple fraud. Almost too simple.
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Mueller Target Raised $25,000 In Charity To Pay Cancer Doctor Who Doesn't Appear To Exist (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2018
OP
Oh my goodness gracious! This almost makes Corsi look like a lying fuckstick!
struggle4progress
Dec 2018
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tymorial
(3,433 posts)1. Phd... doctor of right wing conspiratorial bullshit. Nt
get the red out
(13,468 posts)2. WOW
Creating a fantasy filled world of conspiracy for those who became MAGAs is a lucrative con!
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)3. Oh my goodness gracious! This almost makes Corsi look like a lying fuckstick!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)4. easy money, except for the fraud part