WHITE PLAINS – A mother and her two daughters have been charged in Westchester County for providing fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination record cards to maintain and obtain employment at a Croton-on-Hudson nursing home.
Poughkeepsie residents Antoinette Clarke, 48, Dzjara Clarke, 27, and Jajvia Clarke, 22, were each arraigned on January 31 in Cortlandt Town Court on charges of criminal possession of a forged instrument as a felony.
It is alleged that Antoinette Clarke, a nurse working at the nursing home, and Dzjara and Jajvia Clarke, applicants for nursing assistant positions, each submitted a copy of a forged COVID-19 vaccination card to the facility.
In New York State, healthcare workers must be vaccinated as a condition of employment.
“People who create fraudulent vaccination cards and pretend to be vaccinated to enter workplaces, businesses or facilities, particularly ones with vulnerable populations, are putting others at increased risk of the serious effects of COVID-19,” said Westchester District Attorney Miriam Rocah. “Making, possessing, purchasing or selling fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination record cards is a crime and those with knowledge of anyone breaking the law is encouraged to contact my office at 914-995-tips.”
