Somehow Pedersen evaded law enforcement for the past three years, despite some serious charges, including mail fraud, wire fraud and felony introduction of misbranded drugs into interstate commerce with intent to defraud and mislead. Source: Salt Lake Tribune Staring into a web camera while wearing a white lab coat and stethoscope, Gordon Hunter Pedersen spent the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic peddling silver products as a fraudulent cure for the disease, prosecutors say. Pedersen had no clinical evidence that colloidal silver cured coronavirus — and he wasn’t a medical doctor.