two pediatric nurses arrested - sold covid cards and entered the info into the health database

[Demovictory9]

https://bronx.news12.com/prosecutors-2-workers-from-suffolk-pediatric-doctors-office-arrested-for-selling-fake-covid-vaccination-cards

Prosecutors: 2 workers from Suffolk pediatric doctor's office sold fake COVID vaccination card


Two workers from a pediatric doctor's office in Suffolk County were arrested for allegedly selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards.

The suspects also allegedly entered the information, vaccine lot numbers, into the New York State Department of Health database to make it appear like people got the vaccine when they didn't.

Investigators from the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office arrested Wild Child Pediatrics owner Marissa Urraro and employee Julie DeVuono.

The suspects also allegedly entered the information, vaccine lot numbers, into the New York State Department of Health database to make it appear like people got the vaccine when they didn't.

Prosecutors say the two women who gave out the cards and entered the information charged $220 per entry. If they were giving out a card where someone was said to be vaccinated twice, they were allegedly making $440 per person.

Prosecutors say a ledger seized as evidence shows the women profited $1.5 million in three months.

Investigators also say they found $900,000 of cash in DeVuono's home. She is accused of using her credentials to enter the information.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10454315/NY-pediatric-nurse-practitioner-accused-phony-COVID-vaccine-card-scheme.html

[Bluethroughu]

1. Revoke their license to practice in the Healthcare field, after

They spend time behind bars.

[lostnfound]

2. At least 3,400 dishonest people bought those cards. Dang.

Amd the information in the database is polluted. But I guess they can tell which is which. Since “wild child” was probably not doing actual vaccines for other people?

[ProfessorGAC]

5. They Paid $440 Each

Instead of getting a FREE vaccine.
Must have gone to Trump School of Business.

[Emile]

6. So $440.00 x 3,400 people ?

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Another Article Says...

...they collected $1.5 million in the scam.
They found $900k in one of their houses, stashed in her NYPD husband's helmet bag.
He's being investigated by internal affairs.
But, my point was really about the idiots who paid these scammers instead of getting something for free.
But, it's not a cult.

[greenjar_01]

9. Technically, they weren't sacmming the customers

People were paying for database-checkable vaccine cards that would enable them to engage in all manner of activities, and they received that product in good order.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Hardly Relevant

From Oxford:

scam/skam/noun informal
a dishonest scheme; a fraud.

They were perpetrating a scam. The "customer" getting what they pair for doesn't change the fact that it was a scam.

[Emile]

12. One was married to a NYPD. I bet a lot were sold to cops.

So are they going to go after these law breakers or just the two nurses?

[Hugin]

11. I wonder if one of those 3,400 people is shown to have subsequently expired...

due to the coronavirus. The possibility of the addition of manslaughter charges.

[aocommunalpunch]

3. Shockingly enough, we continue to find people willing to do shitty things for their donors.

Always follow the money.

[tanyev]

4. This is why proof of vaccination to enter a restaurant is not enough to entice me in.

I need to see the Covid numbers come way down and stay down before I'll even consider that. Or the release of a highly effective therapeutic.

[bullwinkle428]

8. No "suspended sentence", please - they need to do some time behind bars for this.

[Meowmee]

10. They'll get off easy if a jury is involved

[Chicago1980]

13. So... Wouldn't they have to have entered those patients names?

It would be nice if those who bought the fake cards could be tracked down themselves and charged with whatever they could be charged with.

[Emile]

15. Too many NY city cops bought them would

be my guess and why they are not pursuing them.

[Takket]

16. a case of not knowing when to stop...

maybe if they had counted their lucky stars at $100k that no one figured it out, and gone on with their lives and their windfall, no one would have noticed. But greedy monsters gonna greedy monster, and they piled up $1.5M.