New York Midwife Pleads Guilty to Distributing Fraudulent COVID Vaccination Cards

Kathleen Breault admitted to destroying over 2,600 COVID-19 vaccines and said she ‘acted out of [her] conscience.’

A health care worker displays a COVID-19 vaccination record card during a vaccine and health clinic at QueensCare Health Center in a predominantly Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles on Aug. 11, 2021. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

A New York midwife pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to defraud the United States by issuing fraudulent vaccination record cards to unvaccinated people, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Kathleen Breault, 66, of Cambridge, New York, admitted to providing COVID-19 immunization record cards to unvaccinated individuals while working at Sage-Femme Midwifery, an authorized COVID-19 vaccine administration site in Albany.