Robert Van Camp labored with an unnamed co-conspirator who had “Prime Secret” safety clearance, the federal criticism says.
SEATTLE — For roughly a 12 months a Parker man and a co-conspirator with “Prime Secret” safety clearance made and offered faux COVID-19 vaccination playing cards, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Monday.
Robert Van Camp offered playing cards to undercover officers on quite a few events and at one level advised one in every of them, “till I get caught and go to jail .. I am taking the cash,” the criticism says.
He faces two counts, in keeping with the criticism:
- Conspiracy to defraud america
- Trafficking in counterfeit items
Van Camp and the unnamed co-conspirator are accused of creating and promoting the playing cards between April 2021 and April of this 12 months, the criticism says.
Van Camp and the co-conspirator obtained an digital copy of a clean COVID-19 vaccination file card which appeared “visually similar” to the official COVID-19 vaccination file playing cards distributed by the CDC, the legal criticism says.
The co-conspirator lived with Van Camp and labored as a personal contractor within the protection trade and had “Prime Secret” safety clearance, the criticism says.
At the very least one witness heard Van Camp say he had “inside data” about COVID-19 vaccination file playing cards as a consequence of his co-conspirator’s safety clearance, in keeping with the criticism.
Van Camp and others used the clean playing cards to make a whole bunch of false and fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination playing cards, the criticism says. They printed them utilizing related paper and ink and included the HHS and CDC’s official authorities logos, in keeping with the criticism.
The playing cards had been then offered by Van Camp for revenue to “purportedly” unvaccinated folks, the criticism says. A few of these consumers had been undercover regulation enforcement officers and in a single transaction, the criticism says an undercover officer bought 5 faux playing cards for $600, or $120 every.
In the course of the sale, he advised the officer, “I have been a printer for 30 years so this was straightforward for me,” the criticism says. Van Camp printed magazines that contained commercials and promotions from numerous companies, the criticism says.
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In accordance with the criticism, Van Camp additionally offered the playing cards to “distributors” who then resold the playing cards to others.
Earlier than distributing the faux playing cards Van Camp advised consumers and distributors to offer names, dates of start, and desired vaccination dates to jot down on the playing cards, the criticism says.
He additional instructed them to both determine a authentic native CDC-authorized COVID-19 vaccination supplier or present a location in order that he might determine a neighborhood CDC-authorized COVID-19 vaccination supplier to make it seem the playing cards had been certainly from a licensed supplier, the criticism says.
As well as, in keeping with the criticism, he requested for pictures of genuine vaccine playing cards in order that he might receive vaccination lot numbers for the faux playing cards.
Van Camp distributed “a whole bunch” of those accomplished faux playing cards in Washington state and elsewhere, the criticism says, and he and his co-conspirator made “hundreds” of {dollars}. They had been paid in money, by verify, and even by a Venmo account within the co-conspirator’s identify, in keeping with the criticism.
To assist conceal the operation, Van Camp used and directed others to make use of “code names” when speaking concerning the faux playing cards, the criticism says, and so they had been sometimes called “reward playing cards” or “restaurant reward playing cards.” Van Camp additionally advised others to delete their conversations concerning the faux playing cards, the criticism says.
On Oct. 14, 2021, the criticism says federal brokers carried out a trash pull at a house in Parker belonging to Van Camp and his co-conspirator. Within the trash they discovered a “card checklist” and consumers’ names, in keeping with the criticism. Additionally they discovered cargo information indicating that Van Camp mailed packages to that purchaser’s house in Washington state earlier that month, the doc says.
Handwriting on these playing cards intently matched the handwriting on the playing cards that Van Camp offered to the undercover officers, the criticism says.
Digital e-mail information additionally revealed quite a few conversations between Van Camp and consumers concerning the fraudulent gross sales, the criticism says.
Van Camp was arrested this week in Colorado and launched however the criticism says should give up his passport and abide by journey restrictions. He is as a consequence of seem in federal within the Western District of Washington on Could 10.
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