Man Who Sold 120,000 Fake COVID-19 Jab Cards Receives Prison Sentence

A Utah man who sold 120,000 fake COVID-19 jab cards received a 12-month prison sentence.

“The lead defendant in a scheme that manufactured, sold and distributed 120,000 counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination record cards was sentenced today,” the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah stated in a press release.

“Nicholas Frank Sciotto, 34, of Salt Lake City, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Tena Campbell to 12 months’ imprisonment, three years supervised release, and ordered by the court to pay a $40,000 fine, after he admitted in July 2024 that he conspired to defraud the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by selling and distributing counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination record cards. In turn, Sciotto obtained over approximately $400,000 in profits,” the release continued.

A Salt Lake man who sold at least 120,000 fake COVID-19 vaccination record cards during the pandemic was sentenced this week to a year in prison. https://t.co/5ph67bPaSb

— KSL (@KSLcom) October 11, 2024

KSL reports:

Sciotto was living in Weber County when he started an online business printing and selling vaccine cards “mainly to persons in New York who were subject to tighter COVID restrictions,” according to charging documents.

From about March to September in 2021, prosecutors say he used mostly Facebook to sell the cards at $10 each for orders of 10 or more cards, and $7.50 each for orders of 100 or more cards.

Sciotto posted on Facebook during that time period saying, “I know someone selling legit vacc cards cheap for people who don’t want to partake in a science experiment,” and sent an “image of stacks of COVID-19 vaccination record cards” to a contact through Facebook Messenger days later, the charges state.

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In July 2021, Sciotto made a fake badge to claim he was with a major COVID-19 testing company in Utah and convinced the owner of a local print shop that he was authorized by a hospital to print vaccination cards, according to court documents. He tried to avoid police detection by “changing every week the envelopes and shipping locations he used to mail” the counterfeit cards.

According to court documents, Sciotto sold approximately 45,000 fake COVID-19 jab cards between April and June 2021.

In total, court documents stated he sold over 120,000 between March and September 2021.

From the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah:

He also sold the COVID-19 vaccination record cards wholesale to several coconspirators, including Kyle Blake Burbage, 33, of Goose Creek, South Carolina. Together, the coconspirators enabled numerous people to use fake vaccination record cards to masquerade as being vaccinated, so they could evade public health and safety protocols across the nation. Sciotto engaged in this scheme–without regard for any public health consequences or risks that he exposed individuals to during the pandemic, without their knowledge or consent, and he undermined the CDC’s COVID-19 vaccination program and other governmental health and safety regulations and protocols at significant profit.

Some social media users praised Sciotto for his actions.

“He should be given a medal of honor because of how many lives he saved,” Inversionism wrote.

He should be given a medal of honor because of how many lives he saved. https://t.co/whc5vZqPPb

— Inversionism (@Inversionism) October 12, 2024

“Man saves lives and goes to jail for 1 year. Fixed it,” Brian Tyson commented.

Man saves lives and goes to jail for 1 year. Fixed it. https://t.co/TOU8S92svr

— Brian Tyson, MD (@btysonmd) October 12, 2024

“This is an astonishing story. Most of the fake vaccine cards were sent to New York,” Shannon Joy said.

“BRAVO to this guy, he’s a hero. He should get a medal not a prison sentence. We should always defy unjust laws or mandates,” she added.

This is an astonishing story.
Most of the fake vaccine cards were sent to New York.

BRAVO to this guy, he’s a hero. He should get a medal not a prison sentence. We should always defy unjust laws or mandates.

Salt Lake man sent to prison for selling over 120,000 fake COVID… https://t.co/ju7CnvL1Cu

— Shannon Joy (@ShannonJoyRadio) October 12, 2024

“That man is a hero and deserves both a pardon and a Presidential Medal of Freedom,” Sean Davis commented.

That man is a hero and deserves both a pardon and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. https://t.co/iTd5YTaNxu

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 12, 2024

“Raise your hand if you’d like to see this man pardoned,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said.

Raise your hand if you’d like to see this man pardoned https://t.co/R6WALHmjwO

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) October 12, 2024

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