Brownsville man arrested for stem cell scheme

The Brownsville man is now behind bars and facing multiple federal charges. Prosecutors allege Morales was part of a cross-border scheme.
According to a 19-page indictment unsealed on Wednesday,
he's accused of making more than $1.5 million dollars injecting stems cells into people with cancer, multiple sclerosis and other incurable diseases.
Morales and another man were featured for the bogus cure on the cbs news program 60 minutes last year.
An FBI investigation into his activities ended with a grand jury handing down a 19-page indictment last month. Records show Morales falsely claimed to be a doctor.
He allegedly used a p.o. box from the UPS center in Brownsville as a front for his bogus Rio Grande Valley medical clinic.
The indictment says he received numerous shipments of stem cells at his home off Hackberry lane in Brownsville.
An FBI investigation show the stems cell came from this maternity clinic in Del Rio, Texas.
The clinic's owner Jose Alberto Ramon is also named in the indictment.
In a phone interview Ramon claims he's never met Morales and thought he was donating the umbilical cord for research.
South carolina pathology professor Vincent Dammai is the third person named in the indictment. He's accused of harvesting the stem cells and selling them to Morales.

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