Health care workers bought fake COVID vaccine cards on Instagram: New York
8/31/2021- 3:22 p.m.
New York – Tuesday announced charges against 31-year-old Jasmine Clifford of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, and 27-year-old Nadayza Barkley of Bellport, New York, in connection to the bogus card scam, according to a news release. Both are charged with first degree offering a false instrument for filing and fifth degree conspiracy.
“We will continue to safeguard public health in New York with proactive investigations like these, but the stakes are too high to tackle fake vaccination cards with whack-a-mole prosecutions,” District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement.
Thirteen people who bought the cards — all believed to work in front-line and essential-employee settings, including hospitals and nursing homes — also face charges.
“We need companies like Facebook to take action to prevent the fraud happening on their platforms.”
Criminal charges after allegedly peddling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards on Instagram, according to New York authorities.
Prosecutors said Clifford sold approximately 250 forged COVID-19 vaccination cards via her Instagram account under the screen name “@AntiVaxMomma.”
