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A Wisconsin pharmacist who aimed to ruin 500 doses of COVID vaccine last December has been sentenced to 3 years in prison, the Department of Justice announced.
Steven Brandenburg, who purposely removed the Moderna doses from refrigeration during two shifts, will have 3 years of supervised release after that, and will have to pay about $84,000 in restitution to his former employer Aurora Medical Center, DOJ said.
On Dec. 24 and Dec. 25, 2020, Brandenburg removed vaccines from a hospital fridge for 3 hours and 9 hours, respectively, according to court documents cited by the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He then returned them to the fridge to be used in the hospital vaccine clinic the next day.