The letter below is today’s follow-up to the previous petition update:
Feb 4, 2020 complaint regarding the misuse of taxpayer dollars
https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/25876147
Still waiting on a response from James Ortmann of the Office of Inspector General.
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From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: James.ortmann@oig.hhs.gov, Christi.Grimm@oig.hhs.gov, tickbornedisease@hhs.gov
Cc: (97 Undisclosed recipients)
Date: March 13, 2020 at 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: Feb 4, 2020 complaint regarding the misuse of taxpayer dollars
March 13, 2020
HHS Office of Inspector General
330 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201
Attn: James Ortmann, Associate Counsel
Dear Mr. Ortmann,
While you contemplate a response to my email sent on March 10th I want to caution you from trivializing my serious claims. The Department of Justice has a long history of bouncing me (and others) [1] from one department to the next with no follow-through.
Here is a record of my complaint submitted to the DOJ on Dec 17, 2017 and posted to social media: (I strongly recommend that you read that petition update now)
PETITION UPDATE
Racketeering antitrust lawsuit against the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH, United States
DEC 21, 2017 — Please see the letter below registering a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice. You may contact the Citizen Complaint Center at the following email address: antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov
https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/22161412
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Here is the response I received from the Antitrust Division for my December 21, 2017 complaint:
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From: ATR-Antitrust - Internet < ANTITRUST.ATR@usdoj.gov>
To: Carl Tuttle < runagain@comcast.net>
Date: January 5, 2018 at 11:03 AM
Subject: RE: Racketeering antitrust lawsuit against the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Dear Mr. Tuttle:
Thank you for contacting the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Upon careful review of your complaint, the Citizen Complaint Center has determined that your concerns are more appropriately handled by the Criminal Division, a different division of the U.S. Department of Justice. If you have not already done so, you may wish to express your concerns to the Criminal Division. Please see below for the Criminal Division’s contact information.
We appreciate your interest in the enforcement of the federal antitrust laws and we hope you are able to resolve your concerns.
Sincerely,
Citizen Complaint Center
Antitrust Division
Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice
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Criminal Division
Fraud Section
2100 Bond Bldg
1400 New York Ave NW
Washington, DC 20530
Phone: 202-514-7023
Email: ffetf@usdoj.gov
Website: http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/
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Mr. Ortmann,
I have posted this DOJ runaround to the social media platform Change.org and I highly recommend you view that post now addressed to John Elias of the DOJ Antitrust Division:
PETITION UPDATE
Department of Justice Runaround for Complaint Against the CDC
History shows that the Department of Justice has turned a blind eye to the evidence that the Centers for Disease Control has participated and actually financed the identified Lisa Torrey vs IDSA racketeering scheme.
I expect an answer to my March 10th email Mr. Ortmann without additional excuses!
Carl Tuttle
Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH
Cc: Christi A. Grimm, Principal Deputy Inspector General
Tick-Borne Disease Working Group
Reference
1. 2003 Complaint Filed with the Department of Justice
http://www.actionlyme.org/USDOJ_COMPLAINT_RICO.htm
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Additional email sent today…….
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From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: James.ortmann@oig.hhs.gov, Christi.Grimm@oig.hhs.gov, tickbornedisease@hhs.gov
Cc: (97 Undisclosed recipients)
Date: March 13, 2020 at 11:14 AM
Subject: Forbes: Lessons From Lyme Disease: Six Reasons The CDC’s COVID-19 Failure Was Predictable
To: Christi A. Grimm, Principal Deputy Inspector General
Here is additional evidence that this rouge agency known as the CDC should be investigated.
Forbes
Lessons From Lyme Disease: Six Reasons The CDC’s COVID-19 Failure Was Predictable
Mary Beth Pfeiffer March 13, 2020
Lyme disease experts are not surprised by the failure of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to ensure quick diagnosis of COVID-19. For them, the agency’s long-endorsement of a broken test for Lyme disease, afflicting more than 300,000 Americans annually, is a sorry — but telling — precedent.
Each year, the ranks grow of people whose Lyme disease was diagnosed late simply because their test result was wrong. Perhaps a million Americans suffer from lingering Lyme symptoms, many because their test said “negative,” while their symptoms said otherwise.
Nonetheless, the agency has refused to retire an archaic test, arbitrarily crafted at a conference in Dearborn, Mich. in 1994, even as studies and meta-analyses documented the failure of the test and the toll of disability grew.
Today In: Healthcare
“I wish I could say I’m surprised that CDC has so devastatingly and arrogantly bungled the COVID-19 outbreak,” said Dana Parish, a leading Lyme reformer and co-author of a coming book, “Chronic,” that is harshly critical of the CDC. The agency has not only upheld a flawed test, she said, but “aggressively and disingenuously discredited better tests.”
The parallels between COVID and Lyme are not exact. But here, in a nutshell, are six ways the agency has failed Lyme patients, lapses that might help explain its coronavirus missteps:
Continued........
Carl Tuttle
Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH