The articles never mention what the actual charges are in regards to using fake vaccine cards. What is the criminal code? What is the penalty?
The claim is that 18 U.S. Code ยง 1017 applies.
“Whoever fraudulently or wrongfully affixes or impresses the seal of any department or agency of the United States, to or upon any certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper or with knowledge of its fraudulent character, with wrongful or fraudulent intent, uses, buys, procures, sells, or transfers to another any such certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper, to which or upon which said seal has been so fraudulently affixed or impressed, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
The vaccine cards have the CDC seal on them.
Exactly. There is no law on the books thus nothing to Crack down on.