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The former Wisconsin pharmacist who made national headlines earlier this year after intentionally sabotaging hundreds of vaccine doses will spend three years behind bars, a court decided this week.
Steven Brandenburg, 46, was sentenced on Tuesday in federal court for spoiling more than 500 doses of COVID-19 vaccines late last year. He pleaded guilty in February.
“The purposeful attempt to spoil vaccine doses during a national public health emergency is a serious crime,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton of the Department of Justice’s Civil Division said following the sentencing. “The Department of Justice will continue working with its law enforcement partners to safeguard these life-saving vaccines.”
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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.