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(LifeSiteNews) — JPMorgan Chase Bank has canceled the bank accounts of Dr. Joseph Mercola’s business, some of its employees, and their relatives.
According to a report by Florida’s Voice, Mercola Market, its CEO and CFO, and some of their relatives received letters from Chase Bank on July 13 informing them that their business and personal bank accounts will be closed. The letters did not state any reason for the sudden termination of the accounts.
Chase bank has shut down our business bank accounts along with the accounts of my CEO and CFO, as well as their family members (including spouse and child). They’ve refused to provide any reason for doing so, the oldest account has been active for 18 years.…
— Dr. Joseph Mercola (@mercola) July 25, 2023
Mercola Market CEO Steven Rye told LifeSiteNews in an email that the company believes the cancelations were “politically motivated”:
We are fairly certain this was politically motivated. Why else go after the employees and their families? They are specifically denying our requests to understand why they did this. If we made a mistake or violated a policy just tell us.
Disclosing any plans would sabotage those plans but be sure we are executing one that was developed for an event like this.
We have friends that work at Chase at many different levels. They are completely perplexed by this, they know our business, they know our transactions – they acknowledge that we are, and have always been a great customer for quite a long time.
Whoever made this decision needs to come forward, just explain yourself. If you go out of the way to target the employees and their families, explain your position so everyone can understand what ideology must be maintained to bank at Chase.
The Mercola CEO told Florida’s Voice that he believes the accounts were shut down due to Dr. Mercola’s opposition to the mainstream Covid narrative.
“I believe they cancelled all of the accounts because of Dr. Mercola’s (our employer) opinions,” Rye said. “He has carried a contradictory view throughout the COVID narrative and co-authored the best-selling book ‘The Truth About COVID-19’ which exposed the likelihood that this virus was engineered in a laboratory funded by the NIH [National Institutes of Health].”
Rye said that his wife’s bank accounts were also terminated and that he was told by Chase Bank that his children would not be able to open accounts at Chase in the future.
“It’s just hard to believe that your family, your wife, your kids can’t have a bank account because of the opinions of your employer and they’ve never done anything wrong,” Rye stated. “We all have completely clear records.”
Some employees of Chase Bank appeared to be confused about the sudden closure of the accounts as well. According to Florida’s Voice, Rye received an email from a Chase representative saying he is “still trying to figure out what is going on.”
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Mercola Markets CFO Amalia Legaspi said both her and her son’s personal bank accounts were terminated by Chase.
“I received the letter during [the] weekend and I was surprised that we received the same letters for business accounts with exact wordings,” she said.
Legaspi is now faced with serious problems, as she shared a checking account with her husband, who suffers from dementia and lives in the Philippines. She used the account to transfer money for her husband’s medical bills and said it will be difficult to open another account in his name.
“I have to provide all the legal documentations, including notarized physicians affidavit from the Philippines to prove that my husband is incapable of handling his finances and request the Federal to directly deposit the pension to my own personal account,” Legaspi explained.
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Mercola Markets sells natural health products, including supplements, food, and beverages.
The sweeping attack on the company and its employees is likely directed at Dr. Mercola, who has been a vocal critic of Covid tyranny, climate alarmism, and the globalist “Great Reset” agenda. He has published numerous articles on these issues, many of which have been reprinted by LifeSiteNews.
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LifeSiteNews contacted JPMorgan Chase but has not yet received a response.