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Fri Feb 18, 2022, 11:47 PM Feb 2022

U.S. Marine Reservist already charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot case busted for fake Covid vaccine IDs

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/17/marine-reservist-charged-in-jan-6-capitol-riot-sold-fake-covid-cards-feds-say.html


A U.S. Marine Corps Reservist from New York who previously was arrested on charges related to participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has been charged in a new case of conspiring to sell fake Covid-19 vaccination cards to fellow reservists, prosecutors said Thursday.

The reservist, 26-year-old Queens resident Jia Liu, is accused of conspiring with a nurse named Steven Rodriguez, 27, to defraud the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the fake card distribution scheme, according to prosecutors in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.

Liu separately is charged with providing these cards to Marine Corps reservists, thus defrauding the Defense Department.

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...Prosecutors said the scheme led to more than 300 stolen or false vaccine cards circulating and created more than 70 false entries in immunization databases...

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U.S. Marine Reservist already charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot case busted for fake Covid vaccine IDs (Original Post) blogslug Feb 2022 OP
Kicking for visability SheltieLover Feb 2022 #1
More info here ... left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 #2
Thanks! blogslug Feb 2022 #3
so proud to have these people standing in defense of their country! -(nt)- stopdiggin Feb 2022 #4
Good people. C Moon Feb 2022 #5

blogslug

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Sat Feb 19, 2022, 01:19 AM
Feb 2022

I neglected to search LBN to see if this had already been posted.

Everything about this makes me angry but that thing about the nurse trashing a dose of vaccine for each "premium" fake card...

smdh

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