New York Midwife Fined $300,000 for Faking Children’s Vaccine Records

A New York midwife has received an “unprecedented” $300,000 fine for faking the vaccine records of nearly 1,500 school-aged children across the state. A state investigation found that Nassau County midwife Jeanette Breen, who operated Baldwin Midwifery on Long Island, falsified immunization records after giving students homeopathic pellets instead of mandated vaccinations. State officials announced on Jan. 17 that the penalty was the first settlement of its kind for a scheme to create false immunization records. Ms. Breen had patients across the state, including as far as Erie County, but most were on Long Island, according to the New York State Health Department. Out of a total of 1,452 patients, 488 were from Nassau, and 345 were from Suffolk....