A New York man already facing charges for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 returned to federal court today for a completely different — albeit arguably unsurprising — indictment: An alleged scheme to distribute and sell fake Covid-19 vaccine cards.
Jia Liu, a Marine Corps reservist, and Steven Rodriguez, a nurse at a clinic in Hempstead, New York, were each charged with one count of conspiring to defraud the Department of Heath and Human Services and another count of conspiring to commit forgery in relation to the alleged scheme. Liu was also charged with one count of conspiring to defraud the Department of Defense for allegedly providing the fake vax cards to other Marine Corps reservists.
In total, the two are accused of distributing at least 300 stolen or false vaccine cards and creating over 70 false entries in immunization databases.
Both Liu and Rodriguez were…
