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California actor found guilty of soliciting investments for phony COVID-19 cure

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A part-time actor from Huntington Beach who in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic had fraudulently touted a cure and treatment for the virus was found guilty by jury Friday, May 10, of 11 counts of wire fraud for soliciting investors for his bogus treatments, federal authorities said.

Keith Lawrence Middlebrook, 56, faces a potential maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Ciaran McEvoy said. His sentencing was scheduled for Sept. 9.

Middlebrook was arrested by FBI agents in El Segundo after he delivered bogus pills to an undercover agent posing as an investor in March 2020, but was released less than two months later after posting $150,000 bond, federal authorities said. He remained out of custody Friday.

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