“柯克·摩尔医生已被审判五天，他被指控伪造新冠疫苗接种卡并丢弃政府提供的疫苗剂量。如果陪审团认定这位犹他州整形外科医生犯有包括串谋诈骗美国政府在内的多项罪名，他将面临最高35年的监禁。庭审因周末暂停，就在这时，今年七月的一个星期六清晨，摩尔的律师给他打来电话，带来了一个令他难以置信的消息。美国司法部长帕姆·邦迪下令犹他州检察官撤销所有指控，突然结束了他长达两年半的法庭斗争。“我当时就瘫倒在地，泪水顺着脸颊流了下来，”摩尔在最近的一次采访中回忆道。就在邦迪做出决定前几天，她所在部门的一名联邦检察官在摩尔的案件中出庭，指控他为了“破坏”联邦政府的新冠疫苗分发计划而参与其中。根据法庭记录，她要求陪审团判他有罪，并“认定任何人都不能凌驾于法律之上，即使是整形外科医生也不例外”。摩尔表示，他于2021年5月注册了该项目，旨在获得2000多剂免费疫苗以及相应的疫苗接种证明卡。此前，一些企业、养老院和军队开始要求访客和员工提供此类证明。他说，他的计划始终是发放疫苗接种卡，但不提供疫苗接种，因为他希望为患者提供一个选择，让他们可以绕过强制接种疫苗的规定。邦迪当天上午晚些时候解释了她撤销对X指控的决定，她写道：“联邦政府拒绝给予病人选择权时，摩尔医生给了他们选择的权利。他不应该面临如此漫长的牢狱之灾。今天，一切都结束了。”据《盐湖城论坛报》和ProPublica通过政府新闻稿和媒体报道披露的案例显示，自2021年以来，至少有12名医护人员因发放或出售伪造的新冠疫苗接种卡而被起诉，摩尔就是其中之一。被起诉者包括助产士、护士、药剂师和另一名外科医生。其中8人由拜登政府在联邦法院提起诉讼；加利福尼亚州、纽约州和新泽西州的检察官对另外4人提起州级诉讼。"Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days, accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses.The Utah plastic surgeon faced up to 35 years in prison if the jury found him guilty on charges that included conspiracy to defraud the United States. Testimony had paused for the weekend when Moore’s lawyer called him early one Saturday this July with what felt to him like unbelievable news.U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi had ordered Utah prosecutors to drop all charges, abruptly ending his two-and-a-half year court battle.“I just literally collapsed to the floor, and tears rolling down my face,” Moore recalled in a recent interview.Just days before Bondi’s decision, a federal prosecutor from her department had stood before the jury in Moore’s case and accused him of enrolling in the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution program in order to “sabotage” it, according to a court transcript. She had asked jurors to convict him and to “find that no one is above the law, not even a plastic surgeon.”Moore said he’d signed up for the program in May 2021 to receive more than 2,000 free vaccine doses and accompanying proof-of-vaccination cards after some businesses, nursing homes and the military began requiring such proof for visitors and employees. He said his plan was always to give vaccine cards without providing the shots because he wanted to offer patients a choice to circumvent vaccine mandates.Bondi explained her decision to dismiss the charges on X later that morning, writing that “Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so. He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing. It ends today.”Moore was one of at least 12 health care professionals charged after giving or selling fraudulent COVID-19 vaccine cards since 2021, according to cases identified by The Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica through government news releases and media clips. Those charged include midwives, nurses, pharmacists and another surgeon. Eight were charged in federal court by the Biden administration; prosecutors from California, New York and New Jersey brought state charges against four others."网页链接