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California naturopath and homeopath Juli Mazi will spend 33 months in federal prison for forging federal COVID-19 vaccination cards and selling pills she says would offer lifetime COVID coverage.
Mazi, of Napa, California, pleaded guilty to the tariffs in April and faces a 25-year sentence for all the fees.
“Instead of offering good advice, Mazi profited from trafficking in unapproved remedies, stoking false fears and generating false evidence of vaccination,” Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division said in an announcement on culprit. plea.
However, some time after that, Mazi fired his lawyers, began protecting himself and tried to withdraw from his plea agreement, according to The Associated Press.
In August, he challenged the legal basis for the charges, which included one count of cord fraud and one count of false statements similar to fitness issues.
“No law was broken,” Mazi said at a virtual hearing in August, according to the Napa Valley Registry. “Can you provide legislation that allows you to forget about the procedures a naturopathic doctor can administer?”
U. S. District Judge U. S. Charles R. Breyer denied her move to withdraw the plea, claiming she disputed any fact.
Last week, Mazi continued her legal battle, filing a letter with the court asking for “sovereign immunity” and that, as a Native American, she is “immune from prosecution. “
Federal prosecutors argued that Mazi profited from promoting vials of untested granules containing unknown ingredients for $243, falsely claiming they would offer “lifelong immunity” to COVID-19. He also sold lots of fake vaccination cards. the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to customers. Others have been used to falsely claim that children were vaccinated against the diseases of the formative years to meet school vaccination requirements.
According to monetary records received through federal investigators, Mazi earned more than $221,000 in 1,242 transactions between January 2020 and May 21, 2021. While the maximum transactions imply what they were used for, 25 transactions with a total price of $7,653 related to COVID treatments and about 34 others concerned homeopathic vaccines.
Judge Breyer on Tuesday sentenced Mazi to 33 months in prison followed by 3 years of probation. He ordered a report to the Bureau of Prisons until January 6.
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