Two New York City nurses charged in fake COVID vaccination card scheme

Julie DeVuono


Another nurse also busted with her: Marissa Urraro​

DA: Nurse used vaccination card scheme proceeds to pay mortgage after arrest

A nurse practitioner accused of running a $1.5 million fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination card scheme used proceeds to satisfy the mortgage on her Amityville house in the days following her arrest, according to a civil forfeiture action filed in state Supreme Court. Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney alleged in the filing that Wild Child Pediatric Health Care owner and CEO Julie DeVuono authorized a $236,980 wire transfer just three days after her January 2022 arrest to pay the balance on a mortgage for the house owned by her husband, an NYPD pilot. DeVuono also closed out a personal savings account ...

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https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/covid-19-vaccination-card-scheme-uzm8jlmp

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Charges in alleged COVID vax fraud do not target NYC teachers

Long Island nurse Julie DeVuono was indicted last week on charges she raked in $1.5 million selling fraudulent COVID-19 vaccine cards — but the only customers mentioned by prosecutors are three undercover detectives who conducted a sting. That could be good news for possibly hundreds of NYC employees,including 82 teachers and four assistant principals, suspected of buying the cards to get around the city’s vaccine mandate, legal experts and advocates say. “It means they are not going to be charged criminally, or they would have been charged by now,” said Betsy Combier, a paralegal who helped 30 teachers successfully sue ...

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https://nypost.com/2023/04/15/charges-in-alleged-covid-vax-fraud-do-not-target-nyc-teachers/

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