A high school teacher in suburban New York was charged Wednesday with submitting a forged COVID-19 vaccination card in an effort to get around the school district’s rule mandating either vaccination or weekly testing for the coronavirus.
Tricia Manno, a teacher at Sewanhaka High School on Long Island, was arraigned on charges including criminal possession of a forged instrument and offering a false instrument for filing, Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly announced.
“This defendant allegedly attempted to circumvent the school district’s mandatory testing requirement by submitting a vaccine card with obvious forgeries,” Donnelly said.
According to prosecutors, Manno, 47, submitted a digital copy of a vaccination card to the Sewanhaka Central High School District on Sept. 21, 2021.
District employees suspected forgery and asked Manno to submit the original card, prosecutors said.
Manno told the district staffers she had been vaccinated at the Northport VA Medical Center but had lost her original card, the prosecutors said. Manno then went to the medical center, showed staffers there a digital image of the forged vaccination card and asked for a replacement, prosecutors said.
A staff member issued a replacement card even though the Northport VA Medical Center had no record of administering a COVID-19 vaccine to Manno, Donnelly said.
“Manno doubled down on the fraud by allegedly illegally obtaining a replacement card at the Northport VA Medical Center where she claimed to have been vaccinated, showing staff a digital fake as her proof,” the district attorney, a Republican, said in a news release. “Submitting fraudulent documents is a crime, and in this case, one that put the health and safety of students and staff at risk.”
Manno pleaded not guilty at her arraignment. Her attorney, Scott Limmer, said he was awaiting discovery from the district attorney’s office.
If convicted of the charges against her, Manno faces a maximum of two and one-third to seven years in prison.
James Grossane, the superintendent of schools, said in a statement that the district will fully cooperate with the investigation but that it could not comment on private personnel matters.
The charges against Manno in Nassau County were filed days after several dozen public school teachers in neighboring New York City were placed on unpaid leave for allegedly submitting fraudulent proof of COVID-19 vaccination. The United Federation of Teachers is fighting the disciplinary action against the New York City teachers.
(AP)
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Lock her up and throw away the key
Their is only one crime in Democrat NYS, and she couldn’t even commit correctly without being caught,
she 110% deserves it
This is what the democrats waste their energy on. They don’t care about the violent crime.
“….and in this case, one that put the health and safety of students and staff at risk.” – שקר וכזב. Kamela Harris with of her חזרת הש”ץ got covid, so this is total nonsense. Hey you so called district attorney, why don’t you leave her alone and go after the truly dangerous criminals?
Cut it out. She didn’t put anyone’s life or health at risk. It is clear that even after vaccinating and boosting one could still carry the virus. Just look at Kamala Harris and you will see.
OMG let the poor women live! she nebach wants to teach but is smart enough not to be fooled by stupid liberal mandates… 7 years???!!! helloooo cuz of virus from China? dumb dumb…
Some people commit “fraud” to afford food and to avoid deadly experimentation. They may regret the consequences of their fraudulent ways today, but a decade from now they probably will be grateful they avoided experimentation.
The evil and sheker in this world is beyond overwhelming.
Considering that the shots officially do not prevent infection and do not stop transmission, she did not put anyone “at risk”. The shots’ official claim is only to prevent severe infection, which would be purely her own risk to herself.
Rather, she simply didn’t “follow orders” that required an invasive medical treatment against her will, something banned at Nuremberg. That is what bothers these reshaim.