January 27, 2022
Two Amityville nurses: Julie DeVuono, 49, a nurse and owner and operator of Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare, and her employee Marissa Urallo, a certified assistant nurse. Mr. (44 years old) was arrested on suspicion of fraudulently filling out a new coronavirus infection vaccination card. entered false vaccine status information into the state database; Officials say the scheme netted $1.5 million in profits. Brooke Hogan, 29, a receptionist at the facility, will be arraigned the next day.
January 16, 2023
According to a report in Newsday, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said that three days after DeBuono’s arrest in January 2022, she received the remaining balance on a mortgage owned by her husband, NYPD pilot Devin DeBuono. The company filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit alleging that it authorized a $236,980 wire transfer to pay for the charges. Tierney was seeking a forfeiture judgment for more than $1.3 million in proceeds.
March 21, 2023
A Suffolk County grand jury indicted DeBuono for running a fraudulent $1.5 million coronavirus vaccination card scheme. On April 12, 2023, Mr. Devuono was indicted and pleaded not guilty. Her legal entity, Kids-On-Call Pediatric Nurse Practitioner PC, was also charged.
September 15, 2023
DeBuono and her company each pleaded guilty to felony charges of second-degree money laundering and second-degree forgery. She also pleaded guilty to a first-degree count of providing a false instrument for application after illegally obtaining a prescription for 180 oxycodone pills for herself in her brother’s name.
As part of the plea agreement, Superior Court Judge John Collins would sentence DeBuono to five years’ probation, 840 hours of community service and a $15,000 fine. She also agreed to forfeit $1.25 million, return her nursing license and registered nurse license, and close the pediatric clinic that had been open since her arrest.
October 2023
The Suffolk and Nassau County Health Departments are advising schools not to accept measles, chickenpox or other immunization records from Wild Child Pediatric Health Care. Letters to the school district were not required.
December 2023
The New York State Department of Health is investigating whether Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare also forged vaccination certificates for diseases such as measles. School districts that initially required new vaccination records have now reversed that requirement.
January 17, 2024
Janet Breen, a Nassau County midwife who runs Baldwin Midwives, was fined $300,000 by the state Department of Health for falsifying the immunization records of about 1,500 children, about 670 of whom were Long They were the children of the island.
The Ministry of Health has ordered children who received fake vaccinations from Mr Breen to be removed from school until they can show proof of vaccination or are in the process of receiving the required vaccinations. I asked for it.
April 24, 2024
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority fires one Metro-North Railroad employee and suspends 11 Long Island Rail Road employees for submitting a fake COVID-19 vaccination card provided by De Buono’s pediatric clinic. announced that it had been made.
July 1, 2024
Julie DeBuono didn’t report childhood vaccinations in New York state for 17 years — shortly after the state ended religious and other non-medical exemptions in 2019, Newsday reported. Until now, state records show. Over the next two years, DeBuono reported administering more than 7,500 vaccines to children.
September 10, 2024
The state invalidated the immunization records of 133 Long Island children, saying they had been falsified by Mr. DeBuono.
September 19, 2024
The state Department of Health sent subpoenas to more than 100 school districts, asking them to turn over vaccination records for about 750 children. The lawsuit prompted some parents to go to court to block the release of the records.
Compiled by Laura Mann
