Feds: CT woman pleads guilty in connection to her creating fraudulent COVID vaccine cards

A Waterbury lady postponed her entitlement to be prosecuted and confessed to a misleading assertion offense originating from her production of bogus COVID-19 immunization records for a few group, as per government specialists.

 

Zaya Powell, 25, conceded for this present week to one count of offering a bogus expression connecting with a medical services matter, which conveys a term of as long as five years in jail, as per government specialists. U.S. Region Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven planned condemning for Nov. 4. Powell is free on a $25,000 bond forthcoming condemning.

 

Government specialists said, refering to court reports and proclamations made in court, that Powell filled in as an information passage expert for Griffin Health Services Corp. also, ventured out to COVID-19 immunization locales in the express that were worked by Griffin Health.

 

Powell didn't regulate immunizations, yet approached Griffin Health's electronic wellbeing record framework and to "heaps of clear COVID-19 immunization cards," government specialists said in an explanation. Further, Powell approached the Vaccine Administration Management System, otherwise called VAMS, a Centers for Disease Control information base used to follow immunizations, the assertion said.

 

"Among August and October 2021, Powell made fake immunization records in VAMS for 14 distinct people," the assertion said. "The records showed that every one of the 14 people had gotten a solitary portion Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 immunization at a Griffin Health area when, as a matter of fact, none had gotten any COVID-19 inoculation from Griffin Health or some other medical services supplier."

 

Powell entered every individual's name and birth date into VAMS to make the phony cards, government specialists said in the explanation. "She additionally made fake COVID-19 inoculation cards for every one of the 14, and dispersed the false cards to the people or to their relatives or associates."

 

The phony cards moreover "included parcel quantities of veritable immunizations that were managed to other Griffin Health patients."

 

Government specialists expressed four of the 14 individuals who got the phony immunization cards Powell made were state representatives who worked at Southbury Training School, a state Department of Developmental Services office in Southbury. The four workers were expected because of their situations to be immunized and supposedly looked for and utilized the phony immunization cards Powell made, and the misleading VAMS sections she did, "to dishonestly report that they had gotten a COVID-19 inoculation," the government proclamation said.

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