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Devin Burghart

@dburghart

Apr 4, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X

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THREAD: Major updates in the allegations of theft/fraud against CSPOA leader Richard Mack. Today it was confirmed that an attorney for America's Frontline Doctors (Free Speech Foundation) filed theft/fraud charges against Mack--who was serving as president of AFLDS.

According to the AFLDS attorney who filed the charges, Lauren Bradford, Mack was removed as president on April 1 by the board. He was ordered to return the money. He did not, according to oversight board member Kevin Jenkins.

Bradford also noted that the board voted in a new board of directors: Dr. Stephen Guffanti, MD, Dr. Cordie Williams, DC, and Dr. Aaron Lewis, PhD. The new board named Jenkins as the new AFLDS CEO.

On today's CSPOA Posse webinar, unsurprisingly Mack did not want to talk about the AFLDS mishigas but did mention he's been visited by a police officer who told him "What a mess."

Meanwhile, Simone Gold still controls the AFLDS website. If you email the site, you'll get a reply from a comms director that was allegedly fired months ago when Gold was removed from the board over allegations of misappropriating millions from the COVID denial group.

While legal troubles are mounting, Richard Mack and his far-right group CSPOA are scheduled to holding trainings with Texas sheriffs later this month. LEOs who attend receive 8 hours of TCOLE credit for being fed lies about how the sheriff can ignore laws they don't like.

In the midst of all this internal drama, it's also worth remembering that it was the Tea Party Patriots Foundation that was initially the fiscal sponsor of Free Speech Foundation (DBA America's Frontline Doctors).

More on CSPOA's relationship with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) here. irehr.org/2022/06/14/tex…

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