Police Say NY Nurse Sold $1.5M In Fake Vax Cards

The New York Daily News reports:

A pediatric nurse practitioner has been arrested for selling phony COVID-19 vaccine cards on Long Island — and her NYPD officer husband faces a departmental probe over his possible involvement in the scam, prosecutors and sources said. Julie DeVuono, 49, is accused of using her Amityville, L.I. practice, Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare, to obtain blank vaccine cards from the state Department of Health, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office said.

DeVuono, along with Marissa Urraro, 44, a licensed practical nurse employed at the practice, allegedly charged adults $220 and children $85 for the cards and entered fabricated information into the New York State Immunization Information System, prosecutors said. During a search of the DeVuonos’ Amityville home Thursday night, cops found $900,000 in cash and a ledger indicating the scheme has racked up over $1.5 million since November, prosecutors said.

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Cops arrested a pediatric nurse practitioner for a $900K phony COVID-19 vaccine card scheme on Long Island.

Her NYPD officer husband faces a departmental probe over his possible involvement in the scam, prosecutors said.https://t.co/3oqL0iPuJK

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