{"id":1084741,"date":"2021-12-04T18:59:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1084741"},"modified":"2021-12-04T18:59:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T23:59:03","slug":"nursing-director-may-face-prison-for-allegedly-making-fake-coronavirus-vaccine-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nursing-director-may-face-prison-for-allegedly-making-fake-coronavirus-vaccine-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Director May Face Prison for Allegedly Making Fake Coronavirus Vaccine Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnursing-director-may-face-prison-for-allegedly-making-fake-coronavirus-vaccine-cards%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1084741&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Vaccination-Record-Card-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A head healthcare worker in South Carolina may face more than a decade in prison if convicted of charges from a grand jury that she created fraudulent coronavirus vaccine cards.<\/p>\n<p>The office of Acting U.S. Attorney M. Rhett DeHart said Thursday a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Tammy McDonald, 53, of Columbia, WLTX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/crime\/columbia-nursing-director-prison-possible-alleged-fake-vaccine-cards\/101-85e1ad29-e0d0-4b5e-86ca-7624a3b26ddd\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>There were two counts of producing fraudulent vaccination record cards and one count of lying to federal investigators.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\" readability=\"34.013550135501\">\n<p>\u201cAlthough the indictment speaks for itself, creating fraudulent or fake vaccine cards for those who have not been vaccinated poses a direct threat to the health of the people of South Carolina,\u201d DeHart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sc\/pr\/federal-indictment-returned-against-nursing-director-producing-fraudulent-covid-vaccine\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.8028169014085\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nursing Director Indicted for Producing Fraudulent COVID Vaccine Cards<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zORQnPWZgr\">https:\/\/t.co\/zORQnPWZgr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Attorney SC (@USAO_SC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAO_SC\/status\/1466755151994232838?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>McDonald, who was described in the statement as \u201cthe Director of Nursing Services at a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center in Columbia,\u201d pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>But prosecutors claimed she produced the fraudulent cards on June 20 and July 28.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney\u2019s office press release continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>The indictment further alleges that on October 22, 2021, McDonald was questioned by federal agents with HHS and FBI and lied by stating she did not have access to COVID-19 Vaccination Record Cards and that she never produced a false or inaccurate vaccine card. The indictment alleges this was false because she had personally filled out vaccine cards for individuals she knew had not received a COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If she is convicted, McDonald could face up to 15 years behind bars for each count of making the fraudulent cards and five years in prison for lying to investigators.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\" readability=\"37\">\n<p>\u201cProducing fraudulent vaccination cards is a serious matter and is not taken lightly,\u201d Susan Ferensic, the special agent in charge of the FBI Columbia Field Office, stated. \u201cAnyone leading or participating in this type of activity should know there will be consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, the import and sale of fake coronavirus vaccination cards were on the rise in the United States, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B6ZwP0WctJc\">reported<\/a> in September:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fake Covid Vaccine Card Imports, Sales Skyrocket Across U.S.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B6ZwP0WctJc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big bundles that are being intercepted in the mail, those are coming from China, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection representative I spoke with yesterday,\u201d reporter Kevin Collier said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDomestically, they are much harder to trace. A lot of people could do this at home with a printer,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A head healthcare worker in South Carolina may face more than a decade in prison if convicted of charges from a grand jury that she created fraudulent coronavirus vaccine cards. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}