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A Utah plastic surgeon and 3 of his affiliates face federal fees for a one-year program in which they allegedly dumped about 2,000 doses of vaccine down the drain, sold counterfeit vaccination cards for $50 each, and tricked young people into believing they were vaccinated against it. to COVID-19 by injecting saline into them, collectively, 391 times.
Last week, federal prosecutors indicted Dr. Michael Kirk Moore Jr. , owner and manager of the Utah Institute of Plastic Surgery in Midvale, south of Salt Lake City, as well as the company’s workplace manager, Kari Dee Burgoyne, its receptionist, Sandra Flores, and Moore’s neighbor, Kristin Jackson Andersen. The 4 are charged with conspiracy to defraud the federal government, as well as two charges similar to the disposition of government property.
According to the indictment, which was revealed Jan. 17, Moore, Burgoyne, Flores and Andersen established a plan in which the practice of plastic surgery has become a valid carrier of COVID-19 vaccines. Moore signed off on the government’s COVID-19 vaccination program. transportation agreement in May 2021, allowing the site to obtain COVID-19 doses purchased by the government in good faith. Between October 15, 2021 and September 6, 2022, the organization ordered approximately 2200 doses of vaccines from the federal government.
Around October, the organization began informing others they knew were interested in fake COVID-19 vaccines, which federal prosecutors called “fraudulent Vax card applicants. “If a fraudulent Vax card applicant called the company, Burgoyne would ask them to contact Moore’s neighbor Andersen. Andersen then timidly removed the touches by asking who had referred them to the clinic, accepting only applicants who had been referred through other people they had already earned a fraudulent vaccination card from the program. Anderson went through this variety procedure with two separate undercover agents.
Once shortlisted, Andersen would order a researcher to make a $50 “donation” based on the user’s quote via Venmo or PayPal, and the money would go to an unidentified “charity. “Federal prosecutors said the charity was connected to an organization Moore belonged to. A, which sought to “liberate” the medical career from the conflicts of interest of government and industry.
After making the donation and confirming it with Andersen, the applicant would make an appointment with the plastic surgery center. Upon arrival, Flores, the receptionist, Burgoyne or other staff fraudulently filled out a COVID-19 vaccination card indicating that the applicant had been vaccinated. . Meanwhile, the defendants were taking doses of COVID-19 from government-provided vials, “flushing them down the drain with a syringe,” prosecutors alleged. And all that, unless, of course, the fake vaccine intended for a minor.
Prosecutors said the organization administered saline injections to the children at the request of parents so that the young people were vaccinated against COVID-19. He showed this to one of the undercover agents, who asked to bring his children, to which Flores responded by handing him a note that said “with 18 years and younger, we make an injection of saline. “
Throughout the program, the organization reported the names of all vaccine applicants to Utah’s immunization data system, indicating that the closet had administered 1937 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, adding 391 pediatric doses. With a $50 cash vaccination card totaling nearly $97,000, the program was priced at about $125,000, federal prosecutors calculated.
“By allegedly falsifying vaccine cards and administering saline injections to young people instead of COVID-19 vaccines, this provider has not only endangered the health and well-being of a vulnerable population, but has also undermined public acceptance as true and the integrity of federal authorities. “fitness care programs,” Curt Muller, special agent in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General, said in a statement.
The defendants are due to appear in court on January 26.
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