California doctor charged with fraud for herbal cancer ‘treatment’

The prosecutors have charged Dr. Christine Daniel, accused of providing herbal treatment to critically ill cancer patients, with deception as part of the undergoing court trail. It has been proved beyond doubt that she was making use of her charisma as an ordained Pentecostal minister, to allure the dying patients during their darkest hours.

She even tried to entice people through the Trinity Broadcasting Network back in 2002 and said that the herbal mixture collected from various herbs when blended with prayer would easily cure cancer. Federal investigators said that she even claimed a success rate of sixty percent for her cancer curative medicine.

 

If convicted, Daniel, who has been charged both with wire and mail fraud is liable to be detained up to eighty years. The remedial medicine concocted by Daniel was, among many other names, also known as ‘C-Extract’. She even claimed to cure disorders such as multiple sclerosis, hepatitis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease using this medicine.

 

 

According to the documents presented before the court, Daniel exploited those patients who took refuge in her medication after going through the exhausting rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. Through the forge play, she siphoned about $1.1 million between 2001 and 2004 from fifty-five families. At least six patients between the age group of 4 and 69 succumbed to the disease within seven months of Daniel’s treatment. Margaret Antwi and Minna Shakespeare are but two hapless victims who raised the huge amount required for purchasing the medicine.   

 

Following Minna’s death, her husband had registered a complaint at the California Medical Board seeking refund through a local consumer's council. The board is probing into this case. Some patients like Jean McKinney had even bothered to travel all the way to California for getting treated by Daniel. 

 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Johns said;

 

 

Daniel's arrest has popped up in the background of the arrest of an unlicensed Las Vegas man a couple of weeks backs by Orange County prosecutors for allegedly urging patients to stop chemotherapy.