2 Long Island Nurses Allegedly Made $1.5 Million by Selling Fake Vaccine Cards: Officials

 

2 Long Island Nurses Allegedly Made $1.5 Million by Selling Fake Vaccine Cards: Officials

By Jack Phillips
 
January 30, 2022 Updated: January 30, 2022

Two New York-based healthcare workers were arrested for allegedly forging and selling thousands of COVID-19 vaccine cards, officials said.

The Suffolk County Police Department on Long Island said on Jan. 28 that it arrested Julie DeVuono, 49, and Marissa Urraro, 44, for allegedly selling fake vaccine cards and entering that information into the New York State Immunization Information System. 

Both were charged with one count of forgery in the second degree, while DeVuono faces the additional charge of offering a false instrument for filing.

“As nurses, these two individuals should understand the importance of legitimate vaccination cards as we all work together to protect public health,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said in a statement.

Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney told news outlets that DeVuono, who owned Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare in Amityville, and Urraro provided fake vaccination cards. They charged $220 for adults and $85 for children, he said.

But prosecutors said that a fake vaccine card showing a vaccine was handed to an undercover detective. They never administered the vaccine to the detective, prosecutors said, according to The Associated Press.

When law enforcement officials searched DeVuono’s home, they discovered about $900,000 in cash and a ledger showing profits of $1.5 million from the alleged scheme, prosecutors told AP.

“I hope this sends a message to others who are considering gaming the system that they will get caught and that we will enforce the law to the fullest extent,” Tierney said in a statement.

Michael Alber, Urraro’s lawyer, told outlets over the weekend that Urraro is a well-respected nurse and said the public shouldn’t form judgments.

“We look forward to highlighting the legal impediments and defects of the investigation,” Alber said. “It’s our hope that an accusation definitely doesn’t overshadow the good work Miss Urraro’s done for children and adults in the medical field.”

Messages seeking comment were left by AP reporters on Saturday with their lawyers.

The arrests come just days after a New York couple was arrested and charged for allegedly using fake COVID-19 vaccine cards to enter a Buffalo Bills game in early January.

Michael Nabb, 34, and Amber Nabb, 37, attended the Jan. 15 game against the New England Patriots in Highmark Stadium. They were later questioned by team officials and law enforcement during the third quarter of the game, said Erie County District Attorney John Flynn on Wednesday in a news conference.

Nabb said the two were on prosecutors’ radar because they had allegedly made social media posts claiming they used fake vaccine cards to enter games.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Jack Phillips 
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Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.

The Party of Insurrection

 

The Party of Insurrection

Exclusive: David Kupelian shows how today's radicalized Democrats are the real coup plotters

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President Joe Biden claps during a clean car event Thursday, August 5, 2021 on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House photo by Cameron Smith)

President Joe Biden claps Thursday, August 5, 2021 on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House photo by Cameron Smith)

One year after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, President Joe Biden gravely informed the nation that the incident, during which exactly one person, an unarmed female pro-Trump protester, was killed – unnecessarily shot to death at close range, without warning, by a Capitol Hill policeman – was “the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War.”

Biden delivered this extraordinary assessment immediately after Vice President Kamala Harris solemnly equated the out-of-control D.C. protest to both the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor that killed 2,403 Americans and injured 1,178, and the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks that killed 2,977 Americans and injured over 6,000. The Civil War killed an estimated 750,000 Americans.

How, wonder normal Americans, is it possible that the nation’s top political leaders could make such obviously insane statements? More important, what do such bizarre pronouncements say about where the progressive elites are secretly leading the nation?

Although today’s Democratic Party does indeed seem completely deranged and therefore unpredictable – insisting men are actually women if they think they are, claiming Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar spending programs and wild currency creation will “reduce inflation,” engineering a full-scale invasion of the American homeland by millions of illegal aliens so Democrats can stay in power forever, and so on – there actually is one reliable way both to determine with uncanny accuracy what these revolutionary-minded Democrats are up to right now, and to gauge what they are secretly planning for the future.

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Here’s the rule: Whatever the Democrats are falsely accusing their critics of doing and planning, that is precisely what they themselves are actually doing and planning.

And since today’s super-radicalized Democratic Party is continually accusing conservatives both in and out of government of carrying out an “insurrection” against America’s constitutional system of government, you can be sure – as we will soon see – that insurrection is exactly what they themselves are maniacally pursuing.

But first, understand that those on the revolutionary Left are, and always have been, slaves of projection: the compulsion to accuse others of the very sins and crimes of which they themselves are guilty. It’s in their nature, they can’t help it, it’s reflexive and automatic.

Consider:

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* The Biden administration daily refers to regular Americans – say, parents who attend school board meetings to protest the Marxist indoctrination of their own children, or citizens who object to Biden’s tyrannical and dangerous COVID mandates – as “violent extremists.” But when actual violent extremists – virtually all on the Left, including Black Lives Matter and Antifa – were on full display during the summer of 2020, destroying, looting and burning down dozens of major American cities, killing dozens, wounding over 2,000 police officers and causing 1,300 times the damage as the Jan. 6 riot, Democrats and the major media blithely praised the massive, destructive riots as “mostly peaceful,” noble and historic civil rights protests.

* The Democratic Party, which is totally obsessed with race – insisting on hiring, discriminating against, and even (in the age of COVID) denying medical treatment to people solely on the basis of their skin color – accuses those who embrace the color-blind America championed by Martin Luther King of being "racists." America, unquestionably the least racist, most successful multi-ethnic nation in world history, is daily condemned as irredeemably racist by the Democratic Party, which is forever accusing Republicans and conservatives of being the party of racism and “white supremacy.” Yet, as Professor Carol M. Swain has documented, it is the Democratic Party that "defendeded slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings" and filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act for over two months.

* The Democratic Party has long smiled on election fraud and abuse. Democrats’ indefensible opposition to Voter ID laws, their expansion of Election Day into “Election Month,” their flat-out unconstitutional alteration of state election laws such as occurred in 2020, their promotion of universal vote-by-mail with the simultaneous abandonment of traditional safeguards, their advocacy of the fraud-plagued practice of “ballot harvesting,” their perverse opposition to cleaning voter rolls, their insistence that ballots mailed late be counted, and a multitude of other strategies all testify to their love affair with election fraud. Meanwhile, conservatives who support the most basic, commonsense, universally accepted standards like Voter ID are gaslighted as racists and white supremacists, accused of “voter suppression” and, as Biden repeatedly tells the nation, promoting “Jim Crow 2.0.” This despite the fact that a large majority of black and Hispanic voters in the U.S. say they favor Voter ID laws!

* The Democrats alleged that President Donald Trump "colluded with Vladimir Putin and the Russians" in 2016 to steal the presidency from Hillary Clinton. After three years of agonizing, ever-expanding special counsel investigation that ripped apart the country, paralyzed Washington and, in many ways, hobbled the Trump presidency, the investigation was revealed to be a total sham. No evidence ever surfaced that Trump colluded with Russia to influence the election. However, what eventually emerged is that Hillary Clinton did "collude with the Russians" to obtain dirt on Trump to influence the 2016 presidential contest. The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, then under the candidate's control, paid a reported $1 million to opposition-research firm Fusion GPS for the infamous and mostly fictitious "Steele dossier," based largely on interviews with Russian officials. The salacious and fabricated claims about Trump were then used fraudulently by the Obama Justice Department to con a secret Washington FISA court into granting the Obama administration permission to send spies into Trump’s presidential campaign.

* The Democrats then endeavored relentlessly, throughout the entire Trump presidency, to wrest control of the government from America’s elected leaders – including two fraudulent impeachment trials, in addition to the fraudulent Mueller investigation. Yet today, Democrats claim Republicans, conservatives and Trump supporters are trying to mount a multifaceted “insurrection” to illegally take control of the government.

Here’s how respected military historian Victor Davis Hansen recently responded to the question of “Who are the real insurrectionists?” The Democrats, said Hanson …

… mask their own revolutionary propensities by projecting them onto their opponents.

After all, who is trying to federalize election laws in national elections contrary to the spirit of the Constitution? Who wishes to repeal or circumvent the Electoral College? Who wishes to destroy the more than 180-year-old Senate filibuster, the over 150-year-old nine-justice Supreme Court, and the more than 60-year-old, 50-state union? Who is attacking the founding constitutional idea of two senators per state?

The Constitution also clearly states that “When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.: Who slammed through the impeachment of former president Donald Trump without a presiding chief justice?

Never had a president been either impeached twice or tried in the Senate as a private citizen. Who did both?

So where is all this heading?

‘The Great Reset’

What we cryptically call “the Left” is, of course, always trying to “reset,” “reform” or “transform” the world, as it holds a fundamentally revolutionary worldview. Barack Obama, just prior to being elected president in 2008, famously boasted, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” His wife Michelle likewise promised, “We are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.” Echoed Joe Biden, before he was elected president, “[We] won’t just rebuild this nation – we’ll transform it.” And Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, breathlessly anticipating the 2020 Georgia runoff races that would give control of the U.S. Senate to the Democrats, announced with a flourish: "Now we take Georgia, and then we change America!"

What on earth are they all talking about?

Superficially, those on the hard Left claim they seek a socialist utopia where justice and equality can prevail. But that is not at all the prize they truly seek.

Under the banner of the “Great Reset,” progressive-left global elites, including in America, are intent on leveraging every crisis – whether real (the COVID-19 pandemic) or fake (the earth will be totally uninhabitable in 10 years due to man-caused global warming!) – into the establishment of a completely new world system.

Now, there’s an insurrection for you!

One key phase of the Great Reset plan was winning the 2020 presidential election through a multifaceted attack on the integrity of U.S. elections, including a powerful and all-pervasive campaign by Big Tech, aided by Big Media, to elect Joe Biden at all costs.

After all, Donald Trump, as president, represented “America First” and pretty much all the traditional cultural, constitutional and economic underpinnings of genuine American success, whereas Joe Biden identified himself as fully on board with the “Great Reset.”

Indeed, Biden’s presidential election campaign chose as its official slogan “Build Back Better,” which also happens to be the official slogan of the “Great Reset” as coined by its originator and chief advocate, billionaire World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab.

Trying to leverage the COVID-19 pandemic, Schwab insists the entire world must “act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies,” meaning, as he explained, “we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism.”

In truth, the elite class in America and around the world has been planning – and increasingly, bragging openly about – the “Great Reset,” whereby they intend to exploit every crisis, real or contrived, to “reset” the world’s economic, social and governmental systems to institute a “more just” global collectivist  utopia. All run by them, of course.

“Every country,” insists Schwab, “from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed.”

Prince Charles has been a key advocate for the Great Reset, along with International Monetary Fund chief economist Gina Gopinath, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, and heads of many major corporations, including Microsoft. Former Secretary of State John Kerry has been all in, exclaiming: "The notion of a reset is more important than ever before. I personally believe ... we're at the dawn of an extremely exciting time."

In fact, during a World Economic Forum panel discussion in late 2020, Kerry – who would soon become a special presidential envoy for Biden on climate issues – publicly affirmed not only that the Biden administration would support the Great Reset, but that it “will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than a lot of people might imagine.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was remarkably candid about the subterfuge under which the global Reset elites operate, proclaiming: “This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine our economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.”

Some might ask: Well, what’s wrong with combatting poverty and inequality?

What many Democratic Party voters – particularly younger millennials – naïvely fail to comprehend is twofold: Not only doesn’t collectivism cure poverty – in fact, it always creates it – but even worse, it always necessitates turning a free society into an authoritarian dictatorship. After all, radical wealth redistribution occurs only when the brute power of government compels it, which means personal liberty is crushed.

But even more fundamentally, the world’s elites do not really want equality for everybody. Historically, from Stalin to Mao to Chavez, Marxist/socialist leaders have never been truly interested in everyone being equal. That’s just happy talk to seduce the masses. First and foremost, these sociopaths crave power over other people, they want to be the arbiters of reality, they want wealth and privilege for themselves, they want glory, they want revenge on their enemies, and they want worship.

In a word, what they really want is to be gods.

Which brings into view the nuclear core of the issue: The original temptation in the biblical Garden of Eden story was, “Ye shall be as gods.” (Genesis 3:5)

The problem is, when human beings try to become gods, they turn into devils. Indeed, from celebrating the slaughter of unborn babies up to the very moment of birth, to condemning their own wonderful country as incorrigibly racist and everyone who disagrees with them as white supremacists and terrorists, to intentionally flooding the nation with millions of illegal aliens, to blaming every normal weather event on “catastrophic global warming,” to today’s unprecedented suppression of free speech, the Democratic Party, knowingly or not, increasingly is promoting policies and agendas that are totalitarian, insane and evil.

Good thing there’s an election in a few months.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: The preceding is the introductory article in the groundbreaking January issue of Whistleblower magazine, published monthly by WND and compiled and edited by David Kupelian. The issue is titled “THE REAL INSURRECTION: Branding normal Americans as ‘terrorists,’ Democrats pursue total revolution.” While Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi’s “House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack” daily accuse law-abiding, patriotic, conservative Americans of being “domestic terrorists,” “violent extremists” and “insurrectionists,” a REAL INSURRECTION – indeed, a full-scale MARXIST “RESET” of the greatest nation on earth – is well underway in the United States of America, led by them. The reality of all this is stunningly documented and explored in “THE REAL INSURRECTION.”

Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength

 Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles;
They will run and not grow weary,
They will walk and not faint.

(Isaiah 40:31)

‘Someone Opened the Doors From the Inside,’ Jan. 6 Defense Attorney Says

 

‘Someone Opened the Doors From the Inside,’ Jan. 6 Defense Attorney Says

By Joseph M. Hanneman
 
January 28, 2022 Updated: January 29, 2022

Kelly Meggs and other members of the Oath Keepers could not have done one of the major things of which they are accused by federal prosecutors: force their way into the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021, through the famous Columbus Doors, a defense attorney says.

The two sets of historic doors that lead into the Rotunda were opened by someone on the inside, and not his client, says defense attorney Jonathon Moseley.

Department of Justice video widely circulated on Twitter this week shows a man trying to open the inner doors by leaning against them, before turning around as if listening to someone, then returning to the entrance and opening the left door for protesters.

“The outer doors cast from solid bronze would require a bazooka, an artillery shell or C4 military-grade explosives to breach,” Moseley wrote in a letter to federal prosecutors. “That of course did not happen. You would sooner break into a bank vault than to break the bronze outer Columbus Doors.”

The 20,000-pound Columbus Doors that lead into the Rotunda on the east side of the U.S. Capitol are secured by magnetic locks that can only be opened from the inside using a security code controlled by Capitol Police, Moseley wrote in an eight-page memo.

‘Impossible and Cannot Be Done’

“Imagine how the prosecution will prove at trial what cannot be proven because it is not true,” Moseley wrote to prosecutors Jeffrey S. Nestler and Kathryn Leigh Rakoczy of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

In court, “who is going to testify that the defendants entered the Columbus Doors when the U.S. Capitol Police will begrudgingly testify that that is impossible and cannot be done?” Moseley wrote.

In a superseding indictment on Jan. 12, 2022, Meggs and 10 other members of the Oath Keepers were charged with seditious conspiracy, destruction of government property, obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder, tampering with documents, and other counts related to rioting on Jan. 6.

The indictment charges that Meggs led a “stack formation” up the Capitol steps to the entrance at the Columbus Doors. At 2:39 p.m., the doors were breached, and Stack One entered into the Capitol with the mob, the indictment said.

Moseley said there’s one big problem with that accusation: it’s impossible to force entry from the outside. Only someone with the security code could release the locks—from the inside.

Video evidence submitted in the case showed the glass panes in the inner doors were cracked but intact, so no one accessed the building through the windows or by reaching for the inside door handles, he said.

“Therefore,” Moseley wrote. “Nobody opened the Rotunda doors from the outside. Someone opened the doors from the inside.”

Video shot by multimedia journalist Michael Nigro shows the outer bronze doors were partially retracted before a large crowd gathered outside the entrance.

The inner doors were closed and U.S. Capitol Police were stationed outside. Protesters sprayed police with pepper spray, threw items at them, and hit them with flagpoles.

A short time later, the inner doors were opened and hundreds of protesters streamed into the Rotunda, the video shows. A protester in the Rotunda is heard shouting, “Don’t vandalize the property!”

Capitol Tour Confirms Door Security

American sculptor Randolph Rogers designed the solid-bronze doors to depict scenes from the life of explorer Christopher Columbus. The doors were first installed in 1863, moved in 1871 to the central east entrance, and moved to the current location in 1961.

The doors are 17 feet high and weigh 20,000 pounds, according to the Architect of the Capitol. Once opened, the giant doors retract into pockets in the walls via built-in tracks.

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First installed in 1863, the historic Columbus Doors depict scenes from the life of explorer Christopher Columbus. (Architect of the Capitol)

Moseley asked federal prosecutors for “any and all specifications, details and operational information about the so-called Columbus Doors.”

Moseley said he and an assistant took a tour of the Capitol on Jan. 22, along with other attorneys and investigators. The U.S. Capitol Police officers on duty were emphatic, he said, that the doors could not be opened from the outside.

“These are facts that in the supposedly largest nationwide investigation in the history of the U.S. since the kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby or the search for Al Capone could easily have been investigated, check(ed), and determined before the U.S. Attorney’s Office presented false information to the grand jury,” Moseley wrote.

“For these purposes, I don’t care who opened the Columbus Doors from the inside, or why, or who they worked for. History will reveal all of that,” Moseley wrote. “History will care very much. But all I care about is that it wasn’t my client or any of these defendants, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office knows that or should have discovered it upon reasonable investigation.”

The Epoch Times asked the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia for comment on Moseley’s letter but received no reply.

The superseding indictment said Meggs and four other Oath Keepers became part of a mob that “aggressively advanced toward the Rotunda Doors, assaulted the law enforcement officers guarding the doors, threw objects and sprayed chemicals toward the officers and the doors and pulled violently on the doors.”

The mob breached the Rotunda entrance around 2:39 p.m., the indictment alleges.

Nigro’s video from outside the entrance shows a group of Oath Keepers near the Columbus Doors, which are clearly open at the time the men got near the threshold. By the time they entered the Capitol, dozens if not more than 100 people had flowed into the building, the video shows.

‘Baseless Prosecution’

Moseley accused prosecutors of crafting a “fabricated case” against the Oath Keepers that is “false and reprehensible.”

“This baseless prosecution is the greatest threat to the Republic since 1812. This prosecution is not about an attack on our Republic. This prosecution IS the attack on our Republic,” Moseley wrote, “seeking to criminalize political dissent, free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of political association, and the right to petition government for the redress of grievances.”

Moseley rapped federal authorities for “dishonestly trying to deceive the public” for eight months by concealing the fact that six demonstration permits had been issued for the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6. Implicit in those permits is the permission for people to have ingress and egress across the grounds to reach each event, he said.

This baseless prosecution is the greatest threat to the Republic since 1812.
— Jonathon Moseley

Moseley proposed a stipulation that both sides in the case agree none of the demonstrators or the defendants opened the Columbus Doors on Jan. 6 and that the government strike three paragraphs of the indictment that refer to defendants entering the Capitol because they are “untrue and withdrawn.” Prosecutors refused that proposal, he said.

News of the Columbus Doors issue comes as more video released from protective court seal shows large groups of Jan. 6 protesters peacefully streaming into the U.S. Capitol through wide-open doors. Among them was Rabbi Mike Stepakoff, who spent about five minutes inside the Capitol, doing nothing more than looking around and taking photos.

On his way out, Stepakoff stopped to shake hands with a police officer, “told him thank you for his service, we love you, and God bless you,” according to his attorney, Marina Medvin.

Rabbi Stepakoff was charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building, violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, all misdemeanors.

Stepakoff pleaded guilty to the parading charge and received 12 months of probation. The other charges were dismissed, Medvin said in a statement. The government sought to punish him with a jail term “for events he did not partake in, for destruction and violence he did not witness, for severity he did not experience, and for an effect he did not cause nor could foresee,” Medvin said.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/someone-opened-the-doors-from-the-inside-jan-6-defense-attorney-says_4242633.html?

Joseph Hanneman is a reporter for The Epoch Times who covers the State of Wisconsin. His work over a nearly 40-year career has appeared in Catholic World Report, the Racine Journal Times, the Wisconsin State Journal and the Chicago Tribune. Reach him at: joseph.hanneman@epochtimes.us