Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
DOJ Issues Another Warning on Fake COVID Vaccination Cards
Be careful no one in your practice or agency is committing this crime. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is on the lookout for COVID-19 vaccination card fraud — and the penalties are steep. The Attorneys General for both the Western and Eastern District of Wisconsin in coordination with state law enforcement “advise the public that any act of creating, distributing, selling, or buying of fake COVID-19 vaccination record cards and any act of forging COVID-19 vaccination information is illegal and punishable under federal law,” cautions a Sept. 10 DOJ release. In addition, residents are reminded that attaching any government seal to a faux card is illegal, a punishable crime, and violates the law. “People who are foolish or selfish (or both) enough to supply bogus vaccination cards, allowing others to circumvent COVID-19 curtailment efforts, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” warns Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin in the release. Read the DOJ release at www.justice.gov/usao-wdwi/pr/federal-state-officials-advise-wisconsinites-making-or-buying-fake-covid-19-vaccine.
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