A former West Virginia state health official has been sentenced to a year of probation for lying about whether or not he verified vendor invoices from a company claiming to have conducted COVID-19 tests for the state.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A former West Virginia state health official was sentenced Monday to one year of probation for lying about whether or not he verified vendor invoices from a company claiming to have conducted COVID-19 tests for the state.charged Priddy with lying to federal agents in August 2022 when he said he verified a vendor’s invoices for performing COVID-19 tests as part of a back-to-school program before approving them.
Prosecutors said the vendor reported the results of about 49,000 COVID-19 tests between October 2020 and March 2022 but submitted invoices reflecting the cost of about 518,000 test kits. The indictment did not name the vendor but said the company was from out of state and provided test kits, laboratory analysis and held community testing events throughout West Virginia.
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