{"id":10833,"date":"2021-08-18T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T18:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=10833"},"modified":"2021-08-19T08:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:54:16","slug":"man-faces-prison-time-for-selling-vaccination-cards-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/man-faces-prison-time-for-selling-vaccination-cards-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Faces Prison Time For Selling Vaccination Cards On eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tangtang Zhao, who worked as a licensed pharmacist for a nationwide chain of stores and pharmacies, faces up to 120 years in prison after being arrested for allegedly selling dozens of authentic COVID-19 vaccination cards issued by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the indictment, Zhao sold 134 real vaccination cards to 11 buyers who paid him about $1,276, or about $10 per vaccination card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is now charged with 12 counts of theft of government property and sentenced to ten years in prison for each of the counts if found guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made his initial court appearance Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheila M. Finnegan in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FBI Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie Jr. said, &#8220;Knowingly selling COVID vaccination cards to unvaccinated individuals puts millions of Americans at risk of serious injury or death. To put such a small price on the safety of our nation is not only an insult to those who are doing their part in the fight to stop COVID-19 but a federal crime with serious consequences.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/pharmacist-faces-120-years-in-prison-for-selling-vaccination-cards-on-ebay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man who worked as a licensed pharmacist faces up to 120 years in prison for allegedly selling dozens of authentic COVID-19 vaccination cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10833"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10857,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions\/10857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}