Doctor Sentenced for Poisoning Mother’s Partner With Fake COVID Vaccine; Ex-Miami-Dade Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty to $150,000 COVID-19 Fraud, and other C-Virus related stories

By admin On Nov 19, 2024

Doctor sentenced for poisoning mother’s partner with fake COVID vaccine:

A British doctor who was disgruntled about his inheritance and injected his mother’s boyfriend with poison presented as a COVID-19 vaccine was sentenced Wednesday to 31 years in prison.

Dr. Thomas Kwan disguised himself as a nurse making home visits to inject Patrick O’Hara with a flesh-eating poison because he believed the older man stood in the way of him inheriting his mother’s home someday.

“It was an audacious plan to murder a man in plain sight and you very nearly succeeded,” Justice Christina Lambert said. “You were certainly obsessed by money and more particularly, the money to which you considered yourself entitled.”

Kwan, 53, pleaded guilty last month in Newcastle Crown Court to attempted murder.

O’Hara, 72, survived after being in intensive care for several weeks and having part of his arm cut away to prevent the necrotizing fasciitis from spreading.

The ordeal left him “a shell of an individual,” he said. O’Hara and Kwan’s mother, Jenny Leung, have since split up.

Police used surveillance camera footage to track down Kwan. —>READ MORE HERE

Ex-Miami-Dade corrections officer pleads guilty to $150,000 COVID-19 fraud

A former Miami-Dade County corrections officer pleaded guilty to wire fraud for defrauding a COVID-19 relief program with the U. S. Small Business Administration.

On Thursday, Daniel Fleureme, 56, of Miami-Dade County, admitted during a court appearance to fraudulently obtaining an Economic Injury Disaster Loan of $150,000.

Fleureme, while he was employed full-time at the Miami Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Center, submitted to the SBA a false and fraudulent EIDL application claiming to be the 100% owner of a sole proprietorship operating under the company legal and DBA names of “Daniel Fleureme,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Fleureme claimed that he had owned the business since its creation on Feb. 15, 2017, and wrote that the business had three employees as of Jan. 31, 2020.

The application also falsely certified that for the 12-month period before Jan. 31, 2020, his sole proprietorship had gross revenues of $450,000 and a cost of goods sold of only $97,000.