Crist backer Gary Kompothecras bullies Florida health officials

[Freddie Stubbs]

"This madness has got to stop. No more double talk. This should be a fairly straightforward study. I feel that there are hidden agendas going on and I will not stand by let it continue!! I will not wait any longer," reads an email dated August 6 from Dr. Gary Kompothecras to Dr. Julia Gill, director of the Florida Department of Health's (DOH) Division of Disease Control.

Coming from anyone else, the blustery email threat might be easily dismissed. But "Dr. Gary," as Kompothecras is known, is the self-styled "Rainmaker," a Sarasota chiropractor who has raised more than $1 million over the years for Senate candidate and soon-to-be ex-governor Charlie Crist.

So it's bound to turn heads when the man known to occasionally lend his private jet to the governor uses his political clout to try to bully Florida health officials into turning over scores of the state's sealed immunization records. Especially when they're for a father-son team, Dr. Mark and David Geier, infamous for injecting autistic children with Lupron, a drug used to chemically castrate prostate cancer patients and pedophiles.

"I will be speaking to the governor's office next week," Kompothecras, who has served on the Governor's Task Force on Autism Spectrum Disorders since 2008, wrote in his email. "I will even fly up to Tallahassee to sit down with the governors' chief of staff and explain in detail the railroad we have been on." Then he signed off with a demand and a threat: "I want a clear, precise time line now!! Govern yourselves accordingly."

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