Long Island nurse hit with $544K fine for $1.5M fake vaccine-card scheme

A former Long Island nurse, Julie DeVuono, earned about $1.5 million by selling fake COVID-19 vaccine cards to parents of 162 schoolchildren between 2019 and 2022; she pleaded guilty in 2023 to forgery and money laundering, and the New York Department of Health imposed a $544,000 civil penalty—the largest for vaccination fraud in its 125-year history.