Three staff members at a Salt Lake City-area plastic surgery practice and a friend of one of the staff members were indicted this week on charges they secretly injected as many as 2,000 children with saline solution instead of the COVID-19 vaccine, issued falsified vaccination cards for adults, and took $50 payments over Venmo and PayPal to fill out the fake vax cards, Ars Technica reports.

The indictment alleges Plastic Surgery Institute of Utah owner Dr Michael Kirk Moore Jr, his office manager, and a staffer dumped the 2,000 or so vax doses down the drain and replaced the vials with harmless saline solution. Separately, with the help of Moore’s neighbor, they distributed fake vax cards in exchange for a $50 “charity donation” via the payment apps, a case that was difficult for the feds to crack as the assholes would only do it if for a person if they had been referred by another previous recipient of a fake vaccination card from the practice.

Most acts of criminal right wing batshittery fall into one of two categories: You have the people that say and do certain stupid, evil things out of cynical ambition – like the Republicans who knew Trump lost but voted to object to it anyway – and the others that do it strictly out of true belief in their moronic cause – like the Capitol rioters. This case is pretty fascinating because it has both elements. These scumbags actually believed they were saving children by faking their COVID vaccinations AND they were making a few extra bucks by selling bogus vaccination cards to adults.