Maryland man pleads guilty to starting scam website that offered to sell COVID-19 vaccine for $30

A Maryland man faces up to 20 years in prison after confessing to a COVID-19 vaccine scam. Odunayo Oluwalade, 25, pleaded guilty to a federal wire fraud conspiracy Friday for starting a phony website that promised to sell the Moderna vaccine “ahead of time,” according to the Department of Justice. Oluwalade, his cousin Olakitan and a third man, Kelly Williams, were arrested in February, just as the vaccine rollout was beginning in the U.S. According to prosecutors, the conmen started a website called modernatx.shop, deceptively similar to Moderna’s real modernatx.com, and copied the real logos...