Two New York nurses have been arrested for allegedly promoting faux Covid-19 vaccination playing cards, and making greater than $1.5 million within the course of.
The Suffolk County district lawyer’s workplace introduced the 2 nurses working in Lengthy Island, 49-year-old Julie Devuono and 44-year-old Marissa Urraro, had cast vaccine playing cards from final November into January of 2022. The pair reportedly charged $220 to $440 for vaccine playing cards for adults, however provided a reduction for youngsters, solely charging $85.
After faking the precise bodily vaccine playing cards, the 2 would then allegedly add false info to the New York State Immunization Info System (NYSIIS) to record folks as vaccinated after they weren’t.
Prosecutors additionally alleged that the nurses cast vaccine playing cards for undercover detectives. The 2 labored at Wild Youngster Pediatric Healthcare in Amityville, an institution that DeVuono, who’s a nurse practitioner, owned.
The #Suffolk County DA arrested two folks together with the proprietor of an Amityville pediatric workplace for promoting faux Covid-19 vaccine playing cards. $220 for adults, $85 for youngsters. Ledgers present they could have made $1.5 million {dollars} from this unlawful scheme #NBC4NYpic.twitter.com/jm0bcOkCeX
— Pei-Sze Cheng (@PeiSzeCheng4NY) January 28, 2022
Companies across the pediatric clinic had seen elevated foot visitors not too long ago, based on native media experiences. “It’s scary past phrases,” one neighbor advised the New York CBS affiliate.
In a search of DeVuono’s dwelling, police found greater than $900,000 in US foreign money, plus a ledger documenting greater than $1.5 million in funds for the alleged vaccine card scheme.
DeVuono and Urraro have each been charged with forgery.
Suffolk County District Lawyer Raymond Tierney added in an announcement he hopes the arrests will “ship a message” to anybody else “contemplating gaming the system.”
“We’ll implement the legislation to the fullest extent,” Tierney mentioned.
