Anti-vaxx mom's VERY trashy courtroom behavior as she's jailed for selling fake COVID vaccination cards at height of pandemic

A New Jersey female made an obscene motion arsenic she was sentenced to situation for trading clone Covid vaccination cards astatine nan tallness of nan pandemic.

Jasmine Clifford, 34, gave those coming nan mediate digit aft she was sentenced to 1 to 3 years successful authorities situation for forging as galore arsenic 250 clone vaccination cards that she sold connected Instagram for $200 each. 

The mother of 2 arrived successful Manhattan tribunal very precocious connected Thursday wearing tight grey shorts, a achromatic t-shirt, achromatic sneakers and a brace of costly Loewe sunglasses - which she kept connected thru retired nan proceedings and moreover while she was taken into custody.

She tried to hide her look pinch a sweatshirt wrapped astir her head.

Her fellow accompanied her to tribunal and sat silently while she was arraigned and taken into custody.

Last week Clifford's sentencing was postponed aft she brought her 2 young children to tribunal but made nary arrangements for them to beryllium taken home.

The connected Thursday Clifford claimed that she had been confused erstwhile she accepted nan plea agreement, arsenic reported by nan Daily News.

'I was nether nan belief astatine nan past tribunal lawsuit that we were mounting a day for trial, she said. 'I was not alert that location was a plea offer.'

She added: 'I had seconds to make a determination and nan connection was connected nan table... I really didn’t cognize what to do. In my bosom what I wanted to do was to spell to trial.'

However nan prosecution said it was Clifford herself who asked for a plea deal. 

Judge Beller did not judge Clifford's statement and advised Clifford that she could entreaty nan sentencing.

'I was here, she pled blameworthy successful beforehand of me,' nan judge said.

'I person a batch of group who travel successful beforehand of maine who person 2nd thoughts astir going to jail.'

Clifford was past manus cuffed and led retired of nan courtroom but not earlier giving nan property who wherever coming and taking pictures nan mediate finger.

She pleaded blameworthy to a crippled that saw her waste clone US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccination cards earlier falsely registering buyers successful New York.

At slightest 13 group were fraudulently put into nan New York State Immunization Information System database arsenic a result, feds said - arsenic nan mom-of-two lived precocious connected nan hog astatine her location successful Lyndhurst

All nan while, she maintained a stark societal media beingness arsenic stripper 5StarJaziii, and connected a still-operating Instagram account, she advertised nan phony CDC vaccination cards nether nan sanction AntiVaxMomma.

She accepted payments from those willing done CashApp aliases Zelle. The pseudonym has since been wiped from her societal media accounts.

For an other $250, a 2nd scammer would participate a bogus paper buyer's sanction into a New York authorities vaccination database, which were utilized to verify vaccine position astatine gatherings for illustration concerts and sporting events, prosecutors said.

Clifford was subsequently charged pinch Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument, Offering a False Instrument for Filing, and Conspiracy successful nan Fifth Degree astatine nan clip of her apprehension successful August 2021.