US Stem Cell Inc (USRM)

[Dragon Lady]

TV NEWS FL: COMELLA FAMILY "OWNS" THE CLINIC..BEING SUED...

WPTV Channel 5, West Palm Beach Florida...USRM's BACKYARD...I hope they loop play this piece for WEEKS ON LOCAL TV....what a stunner this scathing smoking gun is now....

https://www.wptv.com/news/local-news/investigations/new-lawsuit-against-us-stem-cell-after-patient-loses-vision-family-ties-called-into-question

https://www.wptv.com/news/local-news/investigations/new-lawsuit-against-us-stem-cell-after-patient-loses-vision-family-ties-called-into-question?page=2

HOLY COW...just when one thinks it can't get any worse...a local Florida investigative reporter team just LANDED ANOTHER TACTICAL NUKE on ole USRM and Tomas and Comella and now "ALL IN THE FAMILY" self-dealing special of the Comella family JANITORIAL SUPPLY BIZ.....

Jeannine Mallard of France, BLINDED BY COMELLA AND GANG...she's gonna LOSE HER RIGHT EYE COMPLETELY NOW...as in have to have it surgically removed..it's so freaking destroyed and damaged....

AND....Miguel, IMO, NEVER, EVER, EVER... NEVER PROPERLY DISCLOSED THAT THE COMELLA FAMILY "OWNS" the damn clinic as the mystery LLC members. Only recently after the FEDS busted the lawsuit onto USRM and gang, did Miguel finally add ONE SENTENCE in the 10-K that said a "FAMILY MEMBER OF A COMPANY OFFICER IS A PART OWNER OF THE CLINIC".

Then, in the 10-Q after that, Miguel altered the wording to, "AN AFFILIATE OF ONE OF THE COMPANY OFFICER'S IS A PART OWNER OF THE CLINIC"...LOL...

WHICH IS IT MIGUEL...a "FAMILY MEMBER" or an "AFFILIATE" cause from what BOB COMELLA (PAPPA to KRISTY) just said ON-CAMERA...NEITHER STATEMENT YOU PUT IN SEC FILINGS AND FAILED TO DISCLOSE FOR FREAKING YEARS IS TRUE OR ACCURATE.....it's a BUNCH OF THE DAMN COMELLA FAMILY...Momma, Daddy and a damn BROTHER TOO......the dad says, "WE OWN THE CLINIC"...his own words on the damn video....WTH......

Well Miguel....ya sorta FAILED IMO for YEARS to disclose this was all one big SELF DEALING COMELLA FAMILY AFFAIR ( a penny stock Sr Company Officer and BOD member and they're shoveling money around TO THE FAMILY all hidden within a network of tangled micro LLC's and all...AS I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WOULD BE...never passed the smelly stink test to me)....and now the SEC IS INVESTIGATING YOU AND USRM....this can't possibly end well IMO....cause it's not "A FAMILY MEMBER" who owns that majority of U.S. Stem Cell Clinic LLC....it's SEVERAL COMELLA FAMILY MEMBERS and then you were also self-dealing the "medical kit biz" to momma and poppa Comella who it now looks like are getting SUED for the "kits" as part of the BLIND LADY LAWSUIT.....

https://www.wptv.com/news/local-news/investigations/new-lawsuit-against-us-stem-cell-after-patient-loses-vision-family-ties-called-into-question


AND....the TV investigative reporters went on the hunt for all these supposed "1000's OF PATIENTS WE'VE CURED" bull crap from poppa Comella...and they COULD NOT FIND ONE...NOT ONE....and FINALLY FOUND ONE DUDE who'd speak with them....a COPD "patient" and asked DID IT HELP OR IMPROVE YOUR CONDITION and the dude answers EMPHATICALLY "NO IT DID NOT"...I'm only GETTING WORSE....

They, Comella and crew and "ALL IN THE FAMILY" they cleaned him for LARGE CASH PAYMENTS...SHAZAM....imagine that.....ALL "ON THE RECORD" now...ALL PLAYING LIVE ON FL TV CHANNELS....they are BAKED AND WELL DONE as this just gets worse and worse and worse by the day....the legal bills are gonna BK um IMO...let alone the death-ray NEGATIVE PRESS NOW....DID NOT HELP ME..."IT DID NOTHING" alongside a FOURTH BLINDED WOMAN who's now gonna HAVE A HOLE IN HER HEAD AND EYE SOCKET WHERE HER NOW BUTCHERED EYEBALL USED TO BE....THANKS Kristy and the gang of players...real fine "CURES" with NO SIDE EFFECTS...LOL...HOLY SH$%T...

THE VIDEO IS A STUNNER to me....HERE IS THE ENTIRE "WRITTEN" ARTICLE THAT ACCOMPANIED THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER'S TEAM WORK:

QUOTE:

"New lawsuit against US Stem Cell after patient loses vision; family ties called into question

In a room of attorneys and a French interpreter, Jeannine Mallard shields her eyes with sunglasses. Her voice is soft-spoken, shy but the 68-year-old can't hide her anger.

“I get frustrated when I think what is going to happen,” she said covering her mouth.

There's a problem with stem cell therapy in Florida

"That's totally fraud," a leading stem cell expert responds to a FL clinic's stem cell pitch

Mallard is the third patient to come forward with a lawsuit against U.S. Stem Cell, a Sunrise-based stem cell therapy business in the national spotlight after four patients said its eye injections caused blindness.

“They told me they injected 12 patients and they improved,” said Mallard when asked about the clinic’s pitch about treatment for her macular degeneration, a progressive eye disease.

In early 2015, Mallard traveled to South Florida from France paying $7,000 for a U.S. Stem Cell procedure to slow down her road to blindness, claiming only to have it speed up, practically overnight.

According to the lawsuit, Mallard suffered a retinal detachment in her right eye as a result of the procedure.
“The right eye, I see nothing,” she said. “They said the worse that can happen is there is no effect,” she told us during her first public interview about it.

On the day we spoke with Mallard and her attorney, they learned her right eye will need to be removed.

"They ruined my life," said Mallard.

“I can’t imagine a worse result,” said Alex Arteaga-Gomez, one of her attorneys at Grossman Roth Yaffa and Cohen.

“There is no clear peer-reviewed scientific research confirming this therapy has any redeeming value for people suffering from macular degeneration,” said Arteaga-Gomez. “It’s crazy,” he said.

While her original lawsuit against U.S. Stem Cell Inc and U.S. Stem Cell Clinic was filed late last year against a number of defendants including the doctor who performed the procedure, Dr. Shareen Greenbaum and the Hollywood Eye Institute, where the procedure was conducted, a recently amended complaint now also includes Tampa-based distributor, Pavillion Foods Inc.

The distributor is accused of providing U.S. Stem Cell not just paper goods and janitorial supplies but syringes, incubators, and other medical supplies included in the so-called "medical kits" used to extract patient stem cells during the procedure.

Those kits, according to the lawsuit were also equipped with chemicals "intended for laboratory or research only" and lacked "sufficient evidence it was safe to use on human patients.”

According to the suit filed in Broward County Circuit Court, the distributor also lacked “protocols to ensure the quality, efficacy, sterility, and integrity of the kits.”

“We didn’t alter anything, we just assembled what was needed per procedure,” said Bob Comella, the distributor’s CEO.

“We would buy a gross of syringes and then we would put 12 of them in a kit,” he said reiterating that each product would come individually wrapped and would stay that way when assembled into the medical kits.

We’ve learned the west coast supplier and the east coast stem cell company is a family affair.



”We own the clinic actually it’s owned by my son, my wife and U.S. Stem Cell Inc,” Comella told us during an interview at his distribution warehouse in Tampa.

Comella’s daughter, Kristin Comella, is U.S. Stem Cell’s chief science officer and a target of much of the headlines and lawsuits previous lawsuits. Two of the three lawsuits filed alleging the procedures caused blindness were settled.

“We told them we were sorry and they got several million dollars and they were going to go blind anyway,” Bob Comella told us in response to questions about the lawsuits. Comella also told us his distribution company no longer provides medical kits to U.S. Stem Cell.

While U.S. Stem Cell suspended its eye treatment therapies, it still offers experimental therapies for a wide range of conditions despite FDA warnings and a recent Department of Justice lawsuit calling for the company to stop.

According to the DOJ complaint, U.S. Stem Cell manufactures stem cell products to treat serious conditions and diseases, including cancer and traumatic brain injury, without FDA approval and without proof of safety and efficacy. The complaints were filed at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

”We’ve cured thousands of people. Why are we not talking about the thousands of people that have been cured,” asked Comella who claimed the clinic and his daughter, Kristin could connect us with a number of satisfied clients.

However, after several attempts at contacting the clinic and his daughter, even making a visit to its main clinic in Sunrise, the company has not provided any happy clients for us to speak with. During our visit to Broward County, Kristin Comella was reportedly out of town, a desk clerk told us.

So we did our own diggingand eventually found 70-year-old Donald Genereux, a Fort Myers snowbird who has had 5 treatments from US Stem Cell in hopes the therapies would help him breathe better. Genereux suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, an incurable lung disease.

"They were very nice to me, very cordial, informative," said Genereux describing his experience with U.S. Stem Cell.

When asked if his treatments worked, Genereux replied “No, it didn’t. My lung function hasn’t improved at all. In fact, it goes down a bit. I lose about 2% function per year, he said.

But Genereux is quick to not point blame.

“Do you feel like U.S. Stem Cell offered you false hope,” asked reporter Katie LaGrone.

“No. I had the false hope built in. I was really grasping for straws. I wanted a miracle of some sort and that was as close as I was going to get to it,” he said.

A miracle pitch that began with hope, Jeanine Mallard now says ended up leaving her helpless.

“I’ve always been strong. I need help. It’s difficult to accept,” she said.

U.S. Stem Cell would not grant us any interviews. It’s PR firm referred us to a December 2017 press release after Mallard’s original lawsuit was filed. According to that release, "the use of autologous stem cells for macular degeneration was discontinued by U.S. Stem Cell in June 2015, after adverse events were reported."

The company goes on to state that U.S. Stem Cell and its affiliated entities did not administer the treatment to Ms. Mallard. The procedure was performed by Dr. Shareen Greenbaum, an outside practitioner who was trained to use U.S. Stem Inc. technology. Dr. Greenbaum has not responded to repeated attempts for comment."

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GOOD GAWD ALMIGHTY....daddy Comella is peddling Kristy's BS filthy line and Miguel's, "THEY WERE GOING BLIND ANYWAY" after they butchered this poor lady and INSTA-BLINDED HER and how she's gotta go for surgery to REMOVE HER DAMN EYEBALL WTH.....brutality...crass SICK if you ask me...just disgusting.....


Man...the DOJ...the FDA...and now the SEC WHO'S GONNA OPEN-UP THE "ALL IN THE FAMILY" SELF DEALING IMO..I mean FUGLY UGLY if you ask me...it' OTC-ville CLASSIC SERIES STUFF the more this stinky onion is getting peeled back slowly but surely...gawd....the FED on multiple levels via multiple FEDERAL agencies me thinks is gonna bulldoze this mess...

I just can NOT see how any of this ends well...no way....I mean I really think they're just gonna POWER RIP IT IN SHOCK and AWE MODE...would not be surprised in the slightest to see a PERP WALK OR TWO and maybe some SEC PERMANENT BANS ON PUBLIC TRADED COMPANY OFFICER WORK for a few of the gang...before it's all said and done after watching that freaking video....they're gonna GET HOOKED, SKINNED AND FRIED...DOJ FED STYLE with the SEC right behind to hit um with the 2nd round of incoming SHOCK AND AWE....that's what I think.....