Deflategate may be over with for now, but Tom Brady is still in the news.
According to a recent article published in Boston Magazine, Alejandro Guerrero, who serves as Brady’s personal guru and business partner, has come under fire over some of his business decisions.
Guerrero — who used to go by the name Dr. Alejandro Guerrero but now goes by Alex — has been investigated by the Federal Trade Commission several times for making “extraordinary claims” about personal health products, including a nutritional supplement named Supreme Greens
“He also ‘promoted the product as, among other things, an effective treatment, cure, and preventative for cancer, heart disease, arthritis, and diabetes, and as a means of achieving substantial weight loss of up to 80 pounds in 8 months,’ according to a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission. In addition, the FTC noted, Guerrero and his associates ‘claimed that Supreme Greens can be taken safely by pregnant women, children — including children as young as one year old — and any person taking any type of medication.’
“If anyone cared to look closely, however, there were a couple of problems with Dr. Alejandro Guerrero’s claims. First, he wasn’t a doctor of any kind — not a medical doctor, as he admitted in the infomercial — or a doctor of Oriental medicine, as he claimed to business associates, according to a sworn affidavit. The FTC would eventually bar Guerrero from ever again referring to himself as a doctor. In truth, Guerrero’s degree was a master’s in Chinese medicine from a college in California that no longer exists.”
According to the report, further investigation of Supreme Greens found the product to be a “sham” — comparable to “modern-day snake oil.”