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We had hidden our cameras, something we rarely do at 60 minutes, so we could uncover his plan to inject stem cells from a questionable source into this 11yearold boy with Cerebral Palsy. How does it work exactly . Well, stem cells contain. Uh. Excuse me, here. [ticking] in 2009, chrysler was headed towards the junkyard. But in 2011, the company made 183 million and paid back its 6billion federal bailout, 6 years ahead of schedule. And none of it would have happened without its italianborn, canadianraised boss, Sergio Marchionne. From 60 minutes. Oh, yeah. Sorry to barge in on you like this. Does he walk in all the time . Occasionally, yeah. [ticking] in the beautiful italian province of perugia, men roam the frosty hills with their trained dogs, hunting for the most expensive food in the world. So this is 1,000 . Just right there is 1,000. But as we found out, anything this rare and expensive can attract a dangerous clientele. [speaking french] everybodys in danger in this business. Krrrk. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im bob simon. In this edition, were going to visit with a driving force behind the resurrection of chrysler. And later, hunt for the most expensive food in the world. But first, we begin with a story about the rapidly growing trade in fake stem cell cures. Many people with incurable illness look forward to the promise of stem cells. Stem cells have the potential to turn into any kind of cell, and in theory, they could repair damaged cells. Scientists tell us that we are years away from realizing that dream. But conmen have moved in to offer the hope that science cannot. Just look online and youll find hundreds of crediblelooking websites offering stem cell cures in overseas clinics. As scott pelley reported in january 2012, the 60 minutes investigation found something even more alarming illegal stem cell transplants that are dangerous and delivered to your doorstep. I know youre tired. Adam and Brandon Susser are 11yearold twins. Adam has Cerebral Palsy, his brain was damaged by a lack of oxygen before he and his brother were born. Hes confined to a wheelchair. He needs assistance with all his daily living activities from cleanliness to feeding to clothing. Gary and judy susser have searched for anything that might improve on the judgment handed down by adams doctors. The sentence of being a quadriplegic, the sentence of being totally blind, the pronouncement by physicians that we should put him away. So back in 2003, the sussers took a chance on the theory of stem cells. Adam was three. They brought him to a doctor in mexico who injected stem cells with no idea whether they would work. The progress that he made after that was minimal at best, and, therefore, we didnt see any good coming out of it. Today people like the sussers can find hundreds of sophisticated websites offering stem cell treatments for every hopeless disease. I see how people are preyed upon by hucksters and charlatans. And people who have a special child dont need any more expense, dont need any more heartache, and dont need any more false promises. They need the truth, and they need hope. That a boy. To help us learn the truth about the illicit stem cell industry, the sussers agreed to work with us in an investigation of one Stem Cell Laboratory. We focused on stem tech labs of ecuador, because it offers cures for Cerebral Palsy and a long list of 70 incurable diseases. The website claims a modern day medical miracle and says, we are f. D. A. Registered, apparent approval from the food and drug administration. The founder and director of stem tech labs is an alabama doctor named dan ecklund. Weve been tracking dr. Ecklund for months. Hello, is dan ecklund there, please . We asked the sussers to contact dr. Ecklund. Ecklund sent them a letter which offered the blind and paralyzed adam the possibility of an improved level of consciousness, improved ability to see, to speak, to stand, and walk. What can stem cells really do today . We asked a scientist whos doing some of the worlds most advanced studies in stem cells, dr. Joanne kurtzberg. I personally think were 10 years away from seeing real cell therapies that are working and are safe, but i do believe it will come. Dr. Kurtzberg is a physician and the chief scientific officer of a Stem Cell Research program at Duke University. She advises the federal government and is the codirector of this multimillion dollar laboratory which works with stem cells harvested from umbilical cord blood. Dr. Kurtzberg told us theres no evidence yet that stem cells can treat Cerebral Palsy. Some of the diseases that we see stem cell cures offered for on the internet include multiple sclerosis. There are no stem cell cures yet for multiple sclerosis. Lou gehrigs disease . I wish there were, but there are not. You know, i wonder how often it happens that you have to tell a patient, im sorry. Theres nothing we can do. And then they come back to you two days later and say, well, i see all these cures on the internet. Mmhmm, i get many of those calls and emails and see many of those patients. But its very dishonest to mislead people when theres nothing you can do. [ticking] coming up, confronting dr. Ecklund. Frankly, dr. Ecklund, you have nothing to base your results on. Theres no clinical trial, theres no theres no blind study. There are no medical papers published. That doesnt make any difference. Our investigation of stem cell fraud continues when 60 minutes on cnbc returns. [ticking] revolutionizing an industry can be a tough act to follow, but at xerox weve embraced a new role. Working behind the scenes to provide companies with services. Like helping hr departments manage benefits and pensions for over 11 million employees. Reducing document costs by up to 30 . And processing 421 billion dollars in accounts payables each year. Helping thousands of companies simplify how work gets done. Hows that for an encore . With xerox, youre ready for real business. [ticking] in 2011, the parents of 11yearold adam susser, who has Cerebral Palsy, agreed to work with a 60 minutes investigation of an ecuadorbased Stem Cell Laboratory run by dr. Dan ecklund. Although current Stem Cell Research offers no cure for Cerebral Palsy, ecklund told the sussers theres a lot that can be done for their son. Say hello to dr. Dan. Adam. Hello, adam. Can you see him, doc . Dr. Ecklunds only examination of adam came by teleconference. Ecklund didnt know we were watching. Do you think it would help him, you know, make him improve . I think its likely to help him, yes. I would say. 75 chance that itthat he would have a noticeable improvement. Ecklund proposed four treatments costing a total of 20,000. The sussers asked ecklund to treat adam near their florida home. Again, my concern would be the legalities of it. Hes right to be concerned. It would be a felony to use stem cells in an unapproved therapy or to sell them for export to the u. S. Thats why we were surprised to see this on many websites a shopping cart. We clicked on ecklunds stem tech labs cart, and, with no medical or scientific credentials, we bought 20 million umbilical cord stem cells for 5,000, shipped to america. We had the cells sent by the highest medical standard. Duke university suggested we use something called a dry shipper, cooled with liquid nitrogen. We sent the dry shipper to stem tech. Stem tech sent the frozen cells to us. And we forwarded them to joanne kurtzberg. A computer chip inside our package verified that the cells were properly frozen all the way. Dr. Kurtzberg analyzed the cells. For comparison, look under the microscope. Healthy umbilical cord stem cells look like this. The cells we got from stem tech had disintegrated. So these are the cells you purchased. And they are dying or dead. We see all of these dead and disintegrating cells and, essentially, cellular debris. Mmhmm. Are there dangers of injecting that into someone . There are huge dangers if you injected that into someones blood or spinal fluid, because all these little fragments and debris would get trapped somewhere in the bloodstream and could cause a stroke or, in the brain, could cause an inflammatory reaction. Remember, the sussers asked dr. Ecklund to treat adam in the u. S. And in december 2011, he got out of a van to meet gary susser at a Florida Hotel where ecklund planned to do the transplant. We dug into dr. Ecklunds background, and we found things that he hadnt told the sussers. This is the document in which the state of alabama revoked his medical license in 2005. The state medical Commission Said dr. Ecklund admitted that he prescribed controlled substances to a patient with whom he was having sex, prescribed controlled substances to a patient who he knew was a drug addict, and had Sexual Experiences with young female children. We also tracked down his laboratory in ecuador, not exactly the state of the art facility claimed in his website. The hotel room gary susser and dan ecklund headed for was set up with a number of cameras that were tucked out of sight. Susser excused himself. Ecklund was expecting to meet judy and adam, the blind and paralyzed 11yearold in whom he intended to transplant stem cells, cells from his lab that sold us the dangerous biomedical junk. Instead, we came in. Dr. Ecklund, im scott pelley with 60 minutes. Oh, great. How are you today . I am, uh. Surprised. Weve been working with the sussers on a story, and i want you to know that were being recorded. And i wanted to ask you about the treatment that you propose for adam. What would that be . The treatment that he asked about was for stem cells, human stem cells. And you think theyre applicable for Cerebral Palsy . Yes. I have seen them be effective in cases of Cerebral Palsy. How does that work exactly . Well, stem cells contain. Uh. Excuse me, here. No one knows exactly, okay . But stem cells do contain and give off chemicals which cause other cells to repair themselves. In the letter that you sent the sussers, you described possible effects for adam, which could include improved ability to see, improved ability to speak, improved ability to move arms and legs. You believe those things are possible . I do. What is your training in stem cells . My training in stem cells was, i studied for about six years going over the literature. And then i started producing stemstem cells in my lab. Youre selfeducated, selftaught . Mmhmm. Have you published any research . No. Frankly, dr. Ecklund, you have nothing to base your results on. Theres no clinical trial, theres no theres no blind study. There are no medical papers published. That doesnt make any difference. Ecklund told us breakthroughs with stem cells arent published in scientific journals because of a conspiracy of Drug Companies and governments that he had trouble defining. Thats when we told him we bought cells from his lab. When your cells are delivered, theyre functioning, living stem cells . Yes. We purchased some stem cells from stem tech labs six months or so ago and had them delivered to Duke University, which did tests on the stem cells. And they determined that the stem cells were dead. Well, they must not have handled them appropriately, then. Youre thinking that you handled them appropriately, but the stem cell laboratories at Duke University did not . That would be my assumption, yeah. I dont think that theres any chance they were damaged in shipment. We asked dr. Kurtzberg to listen to ecklunds theories yes. I have seen them be effective in cases of Cerebral Palsy. This is pretty scary, actually, that he would be saying these things, that he would be leading them on this way, because what hes talking about is very dangerous. Is this a con, dr. Ecklund . No, its not a con. I have taken the stem cells myself. Would i take the stem cells if i thought that they were a con . No. Putting them in an 11yearold boy is entirely a different matter. Thats why i took care to explain the remotest possible difficulties, which have never been reported. Without any medical studies that have been published in major journals. [laughs] that have suggested that stem cells have any efficacy in Cerebral Palsy you keep going back to this point, that theyre not published in major ethic in Major Medical journals. Im telling you it is the standard of the world. I do keep going to that point. Im telling you that they are not going to be published in this country, because when someone does try to do it, then they have 60 minutes come and visit them. And i think thats enough for me, thank you. We dont know where dan ecklund went, but we do know that of late 2012, he could still be found listed online as a trustee of an Organization CalledGlobal Genius trust. The g. G. T. Website claims that its a Holding Company of Innovative Companies using cuttingedge technologies to make a difference in the world and for our investors. Ecklunds biography on the g. G. T. Website claims, among other things, that hes an m. D. , has delivered over 200 babies, and speaks english, chinese, and french. [ticking] coming up, the resurrection of chrysler. I remember when i came here in 2009. Theres nothing worse for a leader than to see fear in peoples faces. Its been a long rocky road, but the fear is gone. Thats ahead wh 60n cnbc returns. 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With his gray stubble, longish hair, relaxed demeanor, and trademark black sweaters, Sergio Marchionne looks more like a film director than an auto executive, but he is now the industrys biggest star. Sergio marchionne. The ceo of fiat had already rescued that company from financial ruin, and in chrysler, marchionne saw at least one similarity both companies had been through hell. I remember when i came here in 2009. Theres nothing worse for a leader than to see fear in peoples faces. Its been a long rocky road, but the fear is gone. What were they afraid of . Of not being here. All right, its that simple. This was really a question of existence. Theres nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process thats outside your control. And that was exactly the situation at chrysler in early 2009 when marchionne began negotiat with the federal government over a controlled bankruptcy of chrysler that would allow fiat to take over the failing auto company. It was the last hope for chrysler and its 54,000 employees. And there wasnt a ceo in the world from the car side that would have touched this with a 10foot pole. It gave you a little leverage . It gave me some leverage and a whole pile of downside risk. You cantyou know, for you to be the only guy at the bar, theres got to be a reason, right . If sergio had not appeared, i think its very likely chrysler would have been allowed to liquidate. Steve rattner, who was head of the president ial task force on the auto industry, sat across from marchionne at the bargaining table during the height of the economic crisis. Rattner believes that chryslers demise could have cost 300,000 american jobs up and down the Industrial Supply chain. Was he a tough negotiator . Brutally tough, yeah. Hebut thats part of why hes successful. In the end, marchionne and fiat got a 20 stake in the brandnew, slimmed down, debtfree chrysler plus a 6billion high interest loan from the u. S. Treasury, just for taking the auto company off the governments hands and running it. He used the 6 billion to modernize chrysler plants with stateoftheart equipme