NEW YORK (AP) — The Senate’s top Democrat says federal law enforcement officials need to crack down on fake COVID-19 vaccination cards being sold online.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer’s announcement Sunday comes after The Associated Press reported how people are cheating the system and buying counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards online, worrying officials at colleges and universities across the country that are requiring proof students received the vaccine to attend in-person classes.
Schumer is demanding U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the FBI team up with officials from the Department of Health and Human Services to launch a crackdown on the counterfeit cards and start a campaign to make clear that forging the cards could land people in federal prison.
He also wants the Justice Department to immediately prioritize cases involving fake vaccine cards and is pushing for Customs and Border Protection to work harder to find counterfeit cards being sent from overseas.
Federal agents have already seized thousands of fake vaccine cards this year. Customs and Border Protection officers working in Memphis seized another shipment earlier this week — sent from Shenzhen, China and headed to New Orleans — that contained dozens of fake cards, officials said.
The FBI had issued a joint statement with the Department of Health and Human Services in March urging people not to buy, create or sell fabricated vaccine cards. The unauthorized use of the seal of an official government agency is a federal crime that carries a possible fine and a up to five years in prison.
–How about a federal crackdown on fake voter registration? (no such thing…)
–How about a federal crackdown on robocalls? (Chucky has been promising this for years, but never did a thing about it).
Schumer thinks that focusing on things like fake vaccine cards will distract Americans from the spending policies that he is advocating. These policies will create the kind of inflation that will kill the American economy.
He is the same _______ that Damato called him years ago and we as a community should not continue to vote for him. He is not our “shomer” as he likes to say.
Mr Schumer, we should also crack down on fake presidents. Such as the one that’s currently occupying the oval office, who’s incompetent to serve. Read this weeks Ami mag interview with Dr Ronny Jackson if you wanna know what I’m talking about…
to those wondering,
this guy lives with himself just fine
THE DEMORATS ARE FAKE>>>> LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO THIS COUNTRY , THE WORSE IS YET TO COME!!!
Look who crawled out from under the refrigerator- the so called “Shomer Yisroel”. Wait until Election Day, Chucky. You’ll find out how long our memories are.
When we crack down on all the illegal garbage going on like the border crisis and voter fraud, maybe they can waste time and money focusing on taking away the essential human right to govern ones own body and still be free to walk among society
The government has absolutely no right to force people to take any fake vaccines, no matter how many downvotes I get for this comment here. The government is stealing our basic rights!
Meanwhile please prepare a response and a plan for overwhelmed hospitals so nys is ready for cvs the worse. Be a “schomer Yisroel & NY”. Make plans now before it comes
Kol hakovid! Thanks so much for making hishtadlus to be a shomer Yisroel and the population at Large!