SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz enterprise proprietor Jaimi Jansen on Friday pleaded responsible to fees associated to the distribution of fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination playing cards, and homeopathic drugs that she claimed would offer lifelong immunity towards COVID-19.
In line with the federal grievance filed April 19, Jansen, proprietor of the integrative well being and wellness middle, Santa Cruz CORE, distributed homeoprophylaxis immunization pellets and fraudulent Middle for Illness Management and Prevention COVID-19 vaccination document playing cards to roughly 170 recipients from Might to July 2021, for which she collected about $19,500 and profited $14,000. Jansen’s case is tied to prison fees towards Julie Mazi, of Napa, who pleaded responsible in April to promoting the pellets and false vaccination playing cards to roughly 300 individuals.
In line with the federal grievance, “Jansen served as a distributor for Mazi, a naturopathic physician primarily based in Napa, and aided and abetted Mazi’s scheme by buying the homeoprophylaxis pellets and false and fraudulent CDC COVID-19 vaccination document playing cards and reselling them to 3rd events.”
Jansen appeared earlier than Senior District Choose Charles R. Breyer on Friday in San Francisco together with her lawyer, Peter Leeming, and pleaded responsible to a few counts of offering false statements associated to well being care issues. Penalties for every of the counts towards Jensen embody a most sentence of 5 years in jail, a most high-quality of $250,000, as much as three years of supervision after launch, and forfeiture of the roughly $19,500 she collected for the pellets and pretend vaccination playing cards.
Jansen is scheduled to seem for sentencing at 10 a.m. on Sept. 28, earlier than Breyer in San Francisco.
Anybody with details about allegations of tried fraud involving COVID-19 can report it by calling the Division of Justice’s Nationwide Middle for Catastrophe Fraud Hotline through the NCDF net grievance type at justice.gov.