Actor Arrested by FBI for Selling Fake COVID-19 Cure

Actor Arrested by FBI for Selling Fake COVID-19 Cure
The seal of the F.B.I. hangs in the Flag Room at the bureau's headquaters in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 2007. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Hollywood actor Keith Lawrence Middlebrook has been arrested by the FBI for selling what he claimed to be a cure for COVID-19 that he also said he developed, according to a news release issued by the Department of Justice on Wednesday, March 25.

As indicated by the news release, authorities arrested him on federal fraud charges, as he claimed to have developed the alleged antidote for the cure and a disease prevention pill, and solicited investments for a fraudulent company that he said could mass-produce the products.