Attorney General Pam Bondi ended the DOJ case against the Utah surgeon accused of faking COVID-19 shots and undermining trust in public health programs.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced that the Justice Department is dropping charges against Utah plastic surgeon Dr. Kirk Moore.
Moore was accused of throwing away thousands of government-funded COVID-19 vaccinations and handing out false proof-of-vaccination cards to patients without injecting them.
Bondi said in a July 12 statement on social media that she had directed the DOJ to dismiss all charges against Moore, who faced 35 years in federal prison after being accused in 2023 of a conspiracy to defraud the United States by dumping over $28,000 worth of government-provided COVID-19 vaccines, issuing hundreds of fake vaccination record cards to “fraudulent vaccine card seekers,” and administering saline shots to children instead of the vaccine, at their parents’ request.
“Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so,” Bondi said. “He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing. It ends today.”
The trial of the 58-year-old Moore began on July 7 in Salt Lake City, Utah, where supporters gathered to express their support, some holding signs like “Coercion Is Not Consent” and “Dr. Moore is a hero, not a criminal.” Also attending the rally in support of Moore were several Republican lawmakers, including Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, who said the charges were government overreach.
“The way those of us who stood up and pushed back were treated was wrong. We were treated like second-class citizens if we didn’t get the shot, we didn’t get the vaccine,” Schultz told the crowd on July 7, according to the Utah News Dispatch.
“Think about it for just a minute. You had to have a vaccine passport to walk down the streets and go into a shop, to go to a Jazz game, to go to a restaurant. That was unbelievable.”
Moore also received support from some federal lawmakers, such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who said she had petitioned the DOJ to have all the charges dropped.
“This man is a hero, not a criminal,” Greene wrote in a post on social media. “The charges were filed under Biden’s DOJ, not Trump.”
Greene thanked Bondi for her intervention in the case. “We can never again allow our government to turn tyrannical under our watch,” she wrote. “This is a big win!”
Thank you AG Pam Bondi for dropping the WRONGFUL charges against Dr. Kirk Moore!@Moore22K is a hero who refused to inject his patients with a government mandated unsafe vaccine!.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 12, 2025
We can never again allow our government to turn tyrannical under our watch.
Thankfully, as soon… https://t.co/2OUpLPQBpT
By Tom Ozimek
