Two Nurses Busted for Creating Fake COVID-19 Vaccination Cards, Making $1.5 million in Scheme
- Julie DeVuono and Marissa Urraro were caught after a three-month conspiracy that saw them earn millions
- They were charging adults $220 and $88 for kids in their calculated plot from a clinic owned by DeVuono
- They would then add the information to a database that would show proof of vaccination, which was actually false
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Two nurses have been busted after reportedly forging COVID-19 vaccination cards in a scheme that ranked in the millions.
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Julie DeVuono,49, and Marissa Urraro, 44, made up to $1.5 million in just three months from the sale of fake cards that proved one had received the vaccine.
According to New York Post, the two were charging adults $220 and $88f for kids.
The two health care workers based in New York are said to have started their fraud in November 2021 and were finally caught this month.
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DeVuono, a nurse practitioner, owns the Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare - which is said to have been their work station, according to Sullfolk County District Attorney's Office.
Add information to database
The two are said to have added the false information onto the New York State Immunization Information System (NYSIIS).
This would list the individuals as vaccinated even though not true, something that would put many lives at risk.
Prosecutors reported that they also forged vaccine cards for undercover NYPD officers.
About $900,000 was found by investigators at DeVuono's home, and financial records also found at the home alleged to have shown the $1.5 million profit.
The two nurses are reported to have been charged with forgery but the 49-year-old will also face another account of offering fraud.
KNH Nurse forging vaccination certs
In similar news, a nurse from the Kenyatta National Hospital was charged with making fake COVID-19 certificates in 2020.
Delvine Enock Moses was arraigned earlier, Thursday, July 9, at the Milimani Law Courts alongside a hotelier Samwel Shikanda Alukwe where they pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of uttering a false document.
Reports indicated the nurse committed the crime at the KNH infectious unit where he falsified COVID-19 certificates for more than 20 patients with the help of the hotelier.
Further, the health worker faced 29 counts of different cases of forging the documents.
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