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Texas man sentenced to 15 months in prison for posting COVID-19 hoax on social media

By CNN  
   October 06, 2021

Evidence showed Christopher Charles Perez, 40, posted two threatening messages on Facebook in April 2020, falsely claiming he paid someone infected with COVID-19 to "lick items at grocery stores in the San Antonio area to scare people away" from the businesses, the US Attorney's Office in the Western District of Texas said.

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