The Grift and Cybercrime Blight on the Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Share Illustration: Elena Scotti (Photos: Shutterstock, PixelSquid, Getty Images) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Last August, U.S. federal agents searched the Redmond, Washington, laboratory of Johnny Stine, a bootleg biotechnician whom they’d been investigating since March. As they fanned across Stine’s warehouse, they encountered your typical scientist fare: lab equipment, test tubes, a microscope, but also “empty beer bottles and a surfboard,” according to a complaint made public by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January.