Kathleen Breault, a 66-year-old midwife from Cambridge, New York, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States by fraudulently destroying over 2,600 COVID-19 vaccines and issuing a corresponding number of fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination record cards.
The scheme, which was carried out at Sage-Femme Midwifery PLLC, an authorized COVID-19 vaccine administration site in Albany, New York, involved Breault and her co-conspirators providing COVID-19 vaccination record cards to individuals who were not vaccinated, including minors who were at the time ineligible to be vaccinated and Canadian citizens who were not present in the United States when they were purportedly vaccinated.
In addition to destroying COVID-19 vaccines and issuing fraudulent vaccination record cards, Breault and her co-conspirators made over 2,600 false entries into a New York State database that tracked COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Breault agreed to repay more than $37,000 in restitution for the destroyed vaccines.
Breault pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States and its departments and agencies. When sentenced, Breault faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
The FBI is investigating the case, with assistance from the New York State Department of Health. Trial Attorneys Patrick J. Campbell and Hyungjoo Han of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section are prosecuting the case.
The Fraud Section leads the Criminal Division’s efforts to combat health care fraud through the Health Care Fraud Strike Force Program. Since March 2007, this program has charged more than 5,400 defendants who collectively have billed federal health care programs and private insurers more than $27 billion.
Kathleen Breault
Age: 66
Cambridge, New York
E.D.N.Y. Docket No.: 23-CR-158 (RPK)
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Key Facts
- State: New York
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: Official Source ↗
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