A southern Minnesota woman admitted Wednesday to peddling bogus AI \u201cmicrocurrent therapy\u201d devices across the country, claiming the treatment could cure a range of diseases but often inflicted burns, scars and nausea upon patients.<\/p>\n
Tammy Wadsworth, 63, of Stockton, pleaded guilty in U.S District Court in Minneapolis to possession of altered, forged or counterfeit pre-retail medical products that she marketed through the pain clinic she founded. In exchange for her plea agreement, federal prosecutors agreed to dismiss the remaining counts in her indictment.<\/p>\n
Sentencing for Wadsworth has not yet been scheduled. <\/p>\n
According to her charges, Wadsworth\u2019s yearslong scheme collected more than $2 million in fraud proceeds from more than a dozen franchise organizations. Prosecutors said Wadsworth used portions of the money to purchase a home in Nevada and a Mercedes-Benz. <\/p>\n
Wadsworth began recruiting franchise owners in 2017 and sold them faux medical devices and gels that she bought from a third-party vendor. She then replaced the manufacturer\u2019s label with a label for her clinic, the Pain, Injury and Brain Centers of America (PIBCOA).<\/p>\n
Federal prosecutors said Wadsworth told franchisees the devices administered PIBCOA\u2019s \u201cAI myoneurvascular therapy,\u201d which she claimed used artificial intelligence and low-voltage electricity to restore a patient\u2019s cells by placing electrodes on their skin. She said the treatment could cure a number of diseases, including incurable conditions such as autism, Parkinson\u2019s disease and Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n
Instead, the treatment frequently injured franchise owners and patients.<\/p>\n
\u201cWadsworth is a modern-day snake oil salesman,\u201d said acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A southern Minnesota woman admitted Wednesday to peddling bogus AI \u201cmicrocurrent therapy\u201d devices across the country, claiming the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-235012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115222307305239840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}