An ad attacking Dr. Mehmet Oz features clips of him speaking like he is the wizard from the classic movie 'The Wizard of Oz.' Here is what we found when we fact-checked it:
This is misleading, as we found inThe claim is made in a section of the ad headlined, "Remember the grifter," in which a clip plays from "The Young Turks," an online liberal talk show. A host says on June 13, 2022, that Oz "actually had to pay the largest fine in American history for employing undocumented workers" — $95 million.that Asplundh Tree Experts Co.
Oz has ownership in, but no role in running, the company, which was co-founded by the maternal grandfather of Oz’s wife and remains controlled by family members. Oz and his wife own stock in the company worth at least $11.5 million, according to a financial disclosureClaim: Oz is a longtime NJ resident, running for Senate in PAOz moved to Pennsylvania from New Jersey not long before launching his campaign and still has a home in New Jersey.
The ad focuses on his place of residence in a section of the ad that carries the headline: "Remember the fraud." It claims that Oz has for years lived in New Jersey and that his social media shows him at his New Jersey home, even as he’s running for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania. Oz has said he moved to Pennsylvania in late 2020 after living in New Jersey for more than 30 years.
More than 20 social media posts in the three months before Oz launched his campaign in November 2021 appeared to show him at his New Jersey home, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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