Long Island nurse fined $544k for $1.5M fake COVID vaccine-card scheme
A former Amityville nurse, Julie DeVuono, ran a large-scale scheme selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards for 162 families, earning about $1.5 million; she pleaded guilty to forgery and money laundering and was hit with a record $544,000 civil penalty by the New York State Department of Health, plus forfeiture of $1.2 million, 840 hours of community service, and five years of probation after laundering $236,980 to pay a mortgage.