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Posted on 07/10/2026 8:27:48 AM PDT by Libloather
A former Long Island nurse who raked in $1.5 million selling fake vaccine cards during the COVID-19 pandemic was slapped with a record-breaking $544,000 fine from the state.
Ex-Amityville practitioner Julie DeVuono, 53, who pleaded guilty to forgery and money laundering back in 2023 was hit with the massive penalty for a “large-scale” scheme where she hawked the phony cards to parents of 162 school-aged kids between November 2019 and January 2022, the state Department of Health announced Thursday.
“This is the largest civil penalty imposed for vaccination fraud in the Department of Health’s 125-year history,” state Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said.
“Vaccines are the best protection against serious preventable diseases, and the New York State Department of Health has zero tolerance for those that misrepresent or falsify vaccination records as these acts put lives in jeopardy,” McDonald added.
DeVuono was originally arrested in January 2022 after investigators uncovered the scheme, and pleaded guilty a year and a half later.
She avoided jail time and was instead sentenced to 840 hours of community service, five years of probation, and had to forfeit $1.2 million, much of which was already seized from her home, along with ledgers documenting the profits.
Her guilty plea also came after two co-defendants originally charged in the scheme, Marissa Urraro, a licensed practical nurse, and receptionist Brooke Hogan reached a secret agreement to testify against their ex-boss, The Post previously reported.
DeVuono, who owned Wild Child Pediatric Center in Amityville, received free shipments of 3,174 vaccine doses through the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but charged customers $220 to $350 for each dose falsely marked on a vax card for adults — and $85 for kids...
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All of which should have been in addition to jail time.
When I was in college in the early ‘70s I had a professor who was considered the top of the pyramid in the criminology profession at least in the state of Florida. DR Charles Unkovic.
He pointed out that if you’re going to be a criminal the best way to do it is to be a white collar Criminal. Articles like this simply illustrate that
Hero. Should be given a medal.
We’re going to make you give back a third of that. Oh - not to the people who committed the crimes with you - to us. And you keep the rest. You’re good.
Covid cards had no security measures. They were a simple document with no official government requirement by way of written law that wasn’t perverted to match officials beliefs.
They were both legislatively and morally illegitimate.
Scans were freely available on the internet and entered vaccination records could be written by anyone.
So what was her crime?
Selling fake cards to be used to work or shop? Nobody is under any obligation to show anyone that documentation. Executive Orders whether State or Federal are not binding on the public.
Fake cards operating under fake law by officials with fake power… the only crime here were those people who employed power.
All of those people who fired or fined or arrested people during this Covid situation, they belong in jail for life.
She did more good than the docs. Let her keep it.
+1
The givernment, Moderna, Fauci haven’t been charged with anycrimes
Yup-
Who is going to get fined, lose a job, or just get something put in their personnel file to end their career that coerced people into taking a vaccine under fear of being fired?
Who is going to get in trouble for sharing personal medical information at their work place?
See, it’s OK to “just follow orderz.”
SURE SEEMS LIKE THAT.
“This is the largest civil penalty imposed for vaccination fraud in the Department of Health’s 125-year history,” state Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said.”
WoW! What hubris from the Dr. McDonald. The Vaccination fraud was the US Government.
I wonder if Dr. McDonald is current on his clot shots?
So this criminal bum MADE $1 million in this???? Did the state seize all of her purloined assets and toss her into prison for 20 years? Why not?
How about a medal instead of a fine?
As clearly stated in the article, the $544k fine is in addition to forfeiting $1.2 million in proceeds from the crimes.
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