New York Marine Reservist Charged in Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Also Helped Lead Illegal Vaccine Card Scheme: Feds – By Marisa Sarnoff (Law and Crime) / February 17, 2022
A Marine Reservist currently facing charges for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has been named in an indictment accusing him and a nurse of making and selling fake Covid vaccination cards.
Federal prosecutors say that Steven Rodriguez, 27, a nurse at a healthcare clinic on Long Island, and Jia Liu, 26, a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, plotted to make and distribute false cards that claimed to show a person had received the COVID-19 vaccination when they hadn’t.
The indictment from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York was unsealed Thursday. It did not identify the healthcare clinic where Rodriguez was a nurse, but said that the name of the clinic was known to the grand jury.
