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• <p>For many years, "Dr." John Brewer, husband of the now governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, practiced general medicine in Arizona as a naturopathic physician. In addition to his medical practice, in which he prescribed medications, he also served as the Executive Director of the Arizona Naturopathic Board for which he received $50,000 annually. </p> <p>In June of 2000 the Arizona Attorney General's Office audited the Arizona naturopathic board and found numerous irregularities, and illegalities including the illegal prescription of drugs. See: <a href="http://www.azauditor.gov/Reports/State_Agencies/Agencies/Naturopathic" rel="nofollow">http://www.azauditor.gov/Reports/State_Agencies/Agencies/Naturopathic</a><br /> > Physicians, Board of Medical<br /> > Examiners/Performance/00-9/00-9.pdf </p> <p><br /> In 2001 it was determined that "Dr." Brewer and a number of other chiropractors in Arizona had forged their naturopathic diplomas. (See Fehr-Snyder K. Naturopathic board director on leave. Arizona Republic, May 11, 2001. Naturopathic Board votes to vote to fire chief: Allegations tied to credentials, paper shredding. Arizona Republic, May 12, 2001.)</p> <p>It was found that in addition to "17st day of June," the diploma copy contained several very obvious internal inconsistencies in spacing, line, and calligraphy. It was not copied from an integral diploma. Instead it was, with a different name of recipient, a copy identical to one that had been determined by the Arizona Department of Public Safety to be a photocopy manipulation, derived from an actual chiropractic diploma of one Hollywood College School of Chiropractic.</p> <p>It was further determined</p> <p>(1) that separate sworn depositions, obtained by the State of Arizona from a dean and a board president of Hollywood College, affirm that the college did not offer any naturopathic education or degree in 1960;</p> <p>(2) that a 1961 commencement program from the Hollywood College indicates no naturopathic faculty or ceremony, while it names, as a 1961 chiropractic graduate, a person who submitted to Arizona the same 1960 naturopathic diploma as yours;</p> <p>(3) that creation of the Hollywood College naturopathic diploma copy, using parts of the school's authentic chiropractic diploma, required xerographic reduction technology, which did not exist until 1969;</p> <p>(4) that documents purportedly from three different institutions in two states carry your name with the same misspelling and in essentially the same calligraphy; and</p> <p>(5) that all of the signatures on the ND "diploma" from Hollywood College appear to have been written by the same hand; but in any case that the signatures include "Jesse Lester MD," despite the fact that Lester reported no MD in his 1963 naturopathic license application to the State of Arizona. </p> <p>Meanwhile “Dr. Brewer’s wife, Jan Brewer, who knew that he had never attended any medical school, embarked on a career as a Republican politician beginning on the Phoenix city council, then the Arizona state senate, was then elected as the Secretary of State of Arizona and when the popular governor of Arizona, Democrat Janet Napolitano, resigned to become the new Secretary of Homeland Security, she automatically became the governor (Arizona has no Lt. Governor) and will now shape state policy and laws of Arizona relating to health care.<br /> </p>

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