A woman who worked at a coronavirus travel testing site at the Salt Lake City International Airport has been charged in federal court after she allegedly sold falsified negative COVID-19 tests and pocketed the money for herself.
a 7-day average of about 400 new cases at the beginning of that month. By the end of July, that average jumped to about 835 — the highest figure seen in months at the time.She faces one count of wire fraud. Her first court date is scheduled for May 10, court records indicate.
XpresCheck didn’t exist in Salt Lake City’s airport until about January 2021, when it opened as a pop-up inside the existing XpresSpa, where travelers could book massages and nail care appointments, according to aThe airport doesn’t have oversight over its “concessions,” including XpresSpa, airport spokesperson Nancy Volmer said Friday. She declined to comment on the case. XpresCheck did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday afternoon.
XpresCheck’s Salt Lake City location had the capacity to administer 300 COVID-19 tests a day, the 2021 news release said. “Given the rising number of COVID-19 cases around the country,” XpresSpa CEO Doug Satzman said in the release at the time, “we believe providing this added layer of safety and comfort will be beneficial to passengers and airline employees alike as demand for travel continues to increase.”
The woman’s case was part of a coordinated effort to combat health care-related COVID-19 fraud across the country, according to the