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G. Ford Gilbert has been sentenced to 12 months in confinement stemming from a pay-to-play bribery conviction in Alabama. Read More »
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Man behind controversial diabetes treatment pleads guilty in public corruption case
G. Ford Gilbert, the founder of a controversial diabetes treatment clinic, pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a state lawmaker in Alabama. Read More »
The Weekender for June 23, 2018
It’s not every day we get to speak to a national audience. But this week we did. Our eight-minute documentary about a couple from Montana who invested their life savings into a “miracle” diabetes treatment aired on the PBS NewsHour. (If you missed it, here’s the link.) This documentary took a ton of work. What aired Tuesday was the culmination ... Read More »
The Weekender for May 26, 2018
A weekly roundup for May 20- May 25, including details about more money in the district attorneys race and a response to our Trina Health investigation. Read More »
Hustling Hope: San Diego woman says controversial diabetes treatment endangered her health
A San Diego woman says she was put at risk of hospitalization last year after receiving a series of insulin infusions at Dr. James Novak’s Trina Health clinic in Pacific Beach. Read More »
Hustling Hope: Big name in medicine touted Trina diabetes treatment before founder’s indictment
Sacramento lawyer G. Ford Gilbert, the recently indicted founder of the national diabetes network Trina Health, hitched his clinic’s expansion plans to a big national name in organized medicine and health policy: Dr. Jack Lewin. Lewin was CEO of the California Medical Association for more than 11 years, CEO of the American College of Cardiology for more than five years ... Read More »
Hustling Hope: Montana couple sinks life savings into ‘miracle’ diabetes treatment
Ron Briggs used to call himself a “good cash cow for the medical industry.” That’s because every few weeks, an ambulance would rush across the rugged, cowboy town of Dillon, Montana, sirens blaring, to revive him from a diabetic coma. He and his wife, Julie, a strong and mothering woman where Ron is concerned, get choked up when they talk ... Read More »
Hustling Hope: San Diego doctor runs controversial diabetes clinic
Just about every Tuesday morning around 7:30, John McCreary of Poway can be found waiting for Dr. James Novak’s office to open. Almost always, McCreary said, he’s the first one there. Novak’s practice is listed as the only one in the San Diego area offering Trina Health’s “Artificial Pancreas Treatment,” a four-hour IV insulin infusion procedure for people with diabetes. ... Read More »
Hustling Hope: Doctors debunk diabetes treatment as fraud charges hit clinic executive
Just imagine: A nonsurgical treatment that helps millions of people with complications from diabetes restore vision, repair damaged kidneys, and reverse heart disease and cognitive decline. A treatment that heals wounds in their legs and feet, repairs damage from stroke, and eliminates a common type of diabetic nerve pain called neuropathy. That’s what lawyer G. Ford Gilbert and his network of ... Read More »