NY Attorney General James launches probe into Brooklyn health network accused of violating COVID vaccine rules
New York State Attorney General Letitia James at a news conference in Manhattan on March 28, 2019. - Byron Smith/New York Daily News/TNS

NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James is launching an investigation into a Brooklyn-based health care network that publicly boasted about doling out coronavirus vaccine shots on a “first come, first serve basis” in apparent violation of the state’s restrictions on inoculations. In a statement Monday, James said her office opened the probe after learning that COVID-19 vaccine doses were “wrongfully distributed and administered” by ParCare Community Health Network, which serves predominantly Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods across Brooklyn and upstate Orange County. “In order for the v...