Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Saturday that the Justice Department was dismissing the charges against a Sandy plastic surgeon who was on trial for allegedly issuing fake vaccine cards and destroying more than $28,000 in COVID vaccines.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Saturday that the Justice Department was dismissing the charges against a Sandy plastic surgeon who was on trial for allegedly issuing fake vaccine cards and destroying more than $28,000 in COVID vaccines.
In 2023 the Justice Department indicted Dr. Michael Kirk Moore and three accomplices, alleging that they destroyed the COVID vaccines by squirting syringes down the drain and orchestrating a scheme to falsify vaccine cards in exchange for a $50 cash payment or donations to a charitable organization. Prosecutors also claimed that Moore dispensed saline shots to minors if the parents requested it, so children believed they had been given a dose of the COVID vaccine.
At my direction @TheJusticeDept has dismissed charges against Dr. Kirk Moore.
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) July 12, 2025
Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so. He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing. It ends today.
“Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so. He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing. It ends today,” Bondi wrote.
I’d also like to thank @SenMikeLee who has been a champion for advocating to end the weaponization of government, including to Dr. Moore.
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) July 12, 2025
Bondi also thanked Utah Sen. Mike Lee for being “a champion for advocating to end the weaponization of government, including to Dr. Moore.”
In a later post, Bondi credited Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for bringing the case to her attention.
Moore and his lawyers contended the vaccine requirements implemented by the CDC under the Biden administration were unconstitutional.
The case had become a rallying cry for some Utah Republicans - most notably House Speaker Mike Schultz, who took part in a rally to show solidarity with Moore before the start of his trial.
