“It’s really a mess, and I’m really sorry that it’s come to this,” said Richard Mack, an AFLDS board member and far-right former Arizona sheriff.Īs AFLDS’s leadership squabbles, the group’s rank-and-file employees are struggling to fulfill the organization’s basic functions, like connecting their supporters with prescriptions for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
Now the lawsuit’s outcome could determine the fate of the group driving much of the medical disinformation on the pro-Trump right. 5, when the board sued Gold to try and force her to stop representing the organization, in a lawsuit first reported by Vice News. That dispute spilled into the open on Nov. The war for the right’s most prominent COVID quack group-and the millions of dollars it has raised through relentless fundraising and prescriptions for bogus coronavirus cures-had begun.įor months, AFLDS has been split between its board and Gold, the group’s charismatic founder and convicted Capitol rioter, over an internal audit into Gold’s personal spending. In internal emails, the group’s accountant worried about who could still access the $7 million locked in its bank accounts.
Simone Gold, tried unsuccessfully to gain access to a private Zoom call, only to find herself stuck in a waiting room. The nonprofit quickly fell into factions, with employees holding rival Zoom meetings to plot who would take over the group. When employees at leading COVID pseudoscience group America’s Frontline Doctors tried to log in to work last week, they found themselves locked out of their email accounts.
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