Defendant admits making thousands of dollars from scheme
A business owner in Santa Cruz, CA has pleaded guilty to distributing fraudulent vaccination cards and of homeopathic medicine which, she claimed, would provide lifelong immunity against COVID-19.
A federal complaint was filed April 19 against Jaimi Jansen, owner of integrative health and wellness center Santa Cruz CORE.
The complaint claimed that Jansen distributed homeoprophylaxis immunization pellets and fraudulent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 vaccination record cards to approximately 170 recipients from May to July 2021.
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“Jansen served as a distributor for Mazi, a naturopathic doctor based in Napa, and aided and abetted Mazi’s scheme by purchasing the homeoprophylaxis pellets and false and fraudulent CDC COVID-19 vaccination record cards and reselling them to third parties,” according to the complaint.
From this, Jansen collected about $19,500 and profited $14,000, reported SiliconValley.com.
Jansen pleaded guilty to three counts of providing false statements related to health care matters before Senior District Judge Charles R. Breyer on Friday in San Francisco. She was accompanied by her lawyer Peter Leeming.
For each count against Jansen, she will be penalized with a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a maximum fine of $250,000, up to three years of supervision after release and forfeiture of the approximately $19,500 she collected for the pellets and fake vaccination cards.
Jansen is scheduled to appear for sentencing at 10 a.m. on Sept. 28, before Breyer in San Francisco, according to the report.
Before Jansen, several others have also had to face the law after fraudulent acts.
Recently, a court found that employees of an adoption company made deceptive, false, and misleading representations, including failing to properly screen the birth mother, and that the company was vicariously liable for their misconduct.
Meanwhile, a former energy executive in California was sentenced to serve six years in federal prison and pay $624 million in restitution after participating in a $1 billion solar power fraud.
Also, the former operations manager of Networks 2000, a San Diego-based tech support firm, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for embezzling more than $350,000 from the company.
California resident Rohit Kadimisetty, a former worker at Amazon, was sentenced to 10 months in prison and fined $50,000 after pleading guilty to conspiracy in an international bribery scheme in September 2021.
In February, a district court in Fort Worth, TX convicted former Los Angeles Angels communications director Eric Kay of “distributing fentanyl” and supplying Tyler Skaggs, the team’s pitcher, drugs that caused his death in 2019.
