UNMASKED: Docs reveal California Governor’s secret $1B CCP deal

PressCalifornia.com ^ | 1/12/21 | Staff

[TedMartin]

‘WE COULD OPEN CHAMPAGNE TOMORROW'

Washington, DC – A conservative legal watchdog group has announced that it received hundreds of pages of documents revealing the contract materials and communications related to a $1 billion contract for face masks between the California Office of Emergency Services (OES) and the Chinese Communist Party linked BYD.

BYD reportedly has been barred by law from some federal contracts for providing faulty electric vehicles and lithium batteries to U.S. buyers. The documents, all 848 pages of which can be viewed here, reveal that an OES legal representative admits that the state deviated from their normal procurement process for this contract.

Additionally, in the contract with the OES, BYD uses a different name, Global Healthcare Product Solutions, LLC., and BYD provides no liability or warranty for the masks if they are faulty.

The records, released by Judicial Watch on January 5th, were produced in response to a Public Records Request to the California Governor’s OES for all records and communications related to the state’s contract for masks with BYD.

'Normal procurement process has been deviated'

The records include an April 7, 2020, email from the OES Assistant Chief Counsel Jennifer Bollinger to Oscar Su, Senior Director of BYD America, in which Bollinger states, “Our normal procurement process has been deviated from given the exigency of the situation.”

In an April 6, 2020, email Stella Lu, the president of BYD Motors (the guarantor of the masks) tells Mark Ghilarducci, the director of the OES that they should, “open champagne tomorrow morning at our conference call,” where they will finalize the purchase by California of $1 billion worth of BYD masks.

On April 7, John Zhuang, counsel for BYD and BYD’s lead negotiator, sent the finalized contracts to Bollinger, who led the negotiations for the OES. Bollinger replied, “This is very exciting!!! We will circle back today with the signature as soon as we can.”

In an amendment to the master agreement, BYD had to refund $247 million to California of the $495 million down payment they had received apparently because they weren’t able to meet the deadline of receiving National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) certification for their N95 masks. The certification deadline was extended from April 30, 2020, to May 31, 2020.

SF employee pension fund in on the deal

On March 28, 2020, Brian Stansbury, a member of the board of the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System, emailed Grady Joseph of the OES and Paul Teng of Himalaya Capital in order to introduce Joseph to Teng, saying, “Grady as we discussed the pension system for the City of San Francisco – the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System (SFERS) – reached out to our investment partners to see how they can help in the fight against COVID-19.”

Teng responded, offering to assist with the procurement of N95 masks: “Paul I would like to introduce Grady Joseph Assistant Director of Recovery Operations for Cal OES from the Governor’s OES. We know Grady is in good hands and want to thank you for your partnership.”

Teng later responds, “Hi Grady, nice to meet you through email though I wish it was under better circumstances. We have a deep relationship with BYD which is now the largest mask maker in the world capable of producing 10MM masks a day. I have just facilitated an order between BYD [redacted] to procure 4 MM in N95 masks and 3 MM surgical masks that will be delivered over the next three weeks or so in batches. Happy to make the same connection as well. My number is below if you need to reach me.”

Brian Stansbury, a member of the board of San Francisco Employees Retirement System (SFERS), introduced Paul Teng of Himalaya Capital (with whom SFERS reportedly had invested $200 million and which Stansbury calls their “investment partners”), to Grady Joseph, OES Asst. Director Of Recovery Operations to help in the procurement of face masks.

Teng tells Joseph that Himalaya has a “deep relationship” with BYD, which he claims, “is now the largest mask maker in the world.” Oscar Su, a BYD executive introduced by Teng to Joseph and another OES official, responds, “Thanks Paul for the introduction.”

BYD hides behind shell front based in Delaware

According to the “Equipment Master Supply Purchase Order Agreement” effective April 7, 2020, BYD lists the “Seller” to the State of California as a Wilmington, DE-based company called Global Healthcare Product Solutions, LLC.

The contract states that the “Buyer will support the Seller’s efforts to obtain the National Institute for Occupation Safety and Health (“NIOSH”) certification for the N95 masks purchased under this Agreement.” A provision of the contract calls for BYD Motors, a subsidiary of BYD Co, Ltd, to be the Guarantor of the contract, in the event the Seller breached the

“Guaranteed Material Obligation” of the contract. Pursuant to a “Sweatfree Code of Conduct” provision of the contract, the Seller guarantees that no material furnished to the Buyer “have been produced in whole or in part by sweatshop labor, forced labor, convict labor, indentured labor under penal sanction, abusive forms of child labor or exploitation of children in sweatshop labor…”

IRONY: CCP contract includes woke clauses

In a “Nondiscrimination” clause of the contract, the Seller agrees to not “unlawfully discriminate” against any employee based on “ancestry” or “religious creed.” The provision also calls for the Seller to adhere to the “Fair Employment and Housing Act.”

California’s OES had to provide a 50% down payment totaling $495 million (one-half of the total $990 million contract) under the payment terms of the contract.

According to a purchase order, Global Healthcare Product Solutions (the Seller) is a subsidiary of BYD International Development based in Los Angeles. BYD was to supply 300 million N95 masks at a unit price of $3.30 each.

In an April 3, 2020, email exchange between Bollinger and BYD’s counsel, Zhuang, Bollinger asks Zhuang why BYD is using a company called “Global Healthcare Product Solutions, LLC” as the “contracting entity” for the masks. She notes that “I understood this to be a contract directly with BYD North America.”

Zhuang then responds, saying, “BYD’s contract manufacturing division started Global Healthcare Product Solutions earlier this year to sell healthcare products in the US … They picked the name because they wanted folks to recognize it as a business that sold healthcare products, not to be conflated with the EV [Electric Vehicle] / clean energy business.”

All that money, no warranty included

In the master agreement, under “Limits of Liability” section, the contract notes that “In no event shall Seller be liable for any consequential, special, incidental, indirect or punitive damages …” In the contract provision titled “Limits on Warranty,” the contract notes that Seller … makes no warranties or representations … as to the Equipment … provided for under this Agreement …”

The contract contains a provision that “Seller warrants that no gratuities … were offered or given by the Seller, or any agent or representative of the Seller, to any officer or employee of the Buyer with a view toward securing the Agreement.”

California purchased a total of 300 million N95 masks from BYD for $990 million on April 7, 2020.

In an April 2, 2020, email, Trevor Houser of “Frontline Support” connects multiple BYD and the OES representatives. Frontline Support shares the same address in Oakland, CA, as Rhodium Group, where Trevor Houser is listed as a partner. Rhodium describes itself as “an independent research provider” combining “economic data and policy insight to analyze global trends.”

In an April 24, 2020, email, Shige Honjo from “Frontline Support” provided advice/directives to BYD on quality control measures for the masks that were to be provided to the OES, describing various metrics that BYD should supply to ensure that the masks being provided met certain standards.

These metrics included, “Product cleanliness spec – number and size of particles allowed, blemish, etc.” and “Reliability specs – when does filtration become no good, how many times can the straps be stretched out, etc.”

The BYD representative in charge of handling shipments of the masks to the OES is Sean Li, Procurement and Logistic Supervisor of BYD Coach and Bus LLC.

In an email on March 21, 2020, a California lobbyist named Mark Weideman sent Gov. Newsom’s Chief of Staff, Ann O’Leary, a copy of an article about BYD titled “A Chinese Electric Car Maker Backed by Warren Buffett Re-Tooled to Make Face Masks When Covid-19 Hit – Now It Says It’s the World’s Largest Mask Factory.”

'Happy to help you facilitate this donation'

Weideman says in his email that BYD was willing to “donate” 50,000 masks to California, along with hand sanitizer, and asked if someone could “notify GGN” [presumably Governor Gavin Newsom] so they could “hopefully execute on BYD’s offer to help California, a place they and their unionized workforce call home for their North American operations.”

Abby Browning of the OES responds to Weideman, noting she’d been forwarded his email from O’Leary, and said, “I am happy to help you facilitate this donation.” Weideman replies to Browning, “Yes, address and receiving information would be great. I am copying Frank Girardot and Nancy Liu with BYD who can help coordinate logistics.”

In an April 24, 2020, email exchange among the OES officials handling delivery of 3.4 million masks from BYD, OES Dep. Director Mitchell Medigovich notes that “The physical count will be at the airport and upon movement into the warehouse for inventory and QC [quality control], we will notify receipt and if there are any deficiencies. We are only checking 1% due to volume.”

“The documents show how a well-connected and controversial Chinese firm was able to get a leg up on a billion-dollar mask contract with California politicians,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

[Diogenesis]

the people are CATTLE to be FORCE fed 2021 OPIUM
[”masks for FauXi-engineered MSM-hystericized
prev.common cold”] with proceeds to selected Govs.
and pedophilic “big guy”].

[Regulator]

Won’t mean a thing in California.

The Asians who dominate Northern California won’t see a problem at all. To them, China is the Motherland and they view it as righteous to do business with them.

In Southern California, the Mexicans dominate and they simply could care less. China is a place they know nothing about, and if anything, shares their hatred of Evil Anglos. So they have common cause.

Newsom and his gang of Irish and Italian Catholics in SF operate on their own but cooperate routinely with these two massive foreign populations that took over California in the last 40 years. NOTHING will happen to him other then a few remnant Whiteys getting temporarily bent.

The issue, folks, is Immigration. The people doing these things are NOT Americans. But decades of the Bush Crime family, “Mitch” McConnell, Boehner, Ryan etc etc going along with mass third world immigration has destroyed California and made it a one party thugocracy.

So cry all ya want, they gonna get away with this and more.

And don’t bother chatting about elections. In California, those are a joke.

[webheart]

3 dollars each? That is not a good deal.

[Blurb2350]

Many states’ governors spent hundreds of millions of dollars buying these inferior Chinese PPEs back when the hysteria was just being ginned up. The episode has been quietly buried. It’s beginning to look like we deserve to be powned by the wiley, inscrutable chinks. Now I’m off to Walmart . . .

[blueunicorn6]

There must be money everywhere.

[Liz]

Judicial Watch on January 5th, 2021 secured documents in response to a Public Records Request to the California Governor’s OES for all records and
communications related to the state’s China contract for Covid face masks....which turned out to be a massive money-laundering operation.

CIRCA 2020---GA Gov. Kemp and CA Gov. Newsom bought off by communist China in Covid supplies kickback and money laundering schemes
Channel 411 News ^ | November 24, 2020 | HEALTH RANGER / FR Posted on 11/25/2020, 12:22:27 PM by george76

In July of this year, Natural News reported how California Gov. Gavin Newsom was caught wiring half a billion dollars to communist China as part of a “massive face mask money laundering scheme.” Back in April, even the mainstream media was questioning what Newsom was up to when it was revealed that he had wired half a billion dollars to an electric car company in China to supposedly purchase “N-95 masks” for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19).

This decision was never voted on or approved by legislators, and when pressed about the details of the deal, Newsom refused to disclose them. Keep in mind that this half a billion dollars was just the first of two installments amounting to a full billion dollars being sent China to supposedly purchase face masks for Californians – face masks that never actually arrived, by the way.

As of this writing, the Chinese electric car company in question, BYD, still has the money and has yet to send over a single face mask.

Now, bombshell information is emerging that indicates Georgia Gov. Kemp may be involved in exactly the same scheme. These state officials send huge amounts of money to China under the cover of buying “covid supplies,” then China launders the money into financial kickbacks for the Governor’s family members or business entities.

This is exactly what is now being alleged by attorney Lin Wood, and it describes a shocking pattern of communist Chinese infiltration and corruption of U.S. governors. (See the full interview posted below.) Listen at 6:17 as Lin Wood explains: I believe that Brian Kemp is corrupt, and I think he was corrupted with Chinese money. And I don’t think he wants this election overthrown and the real results posted because then Brian Kemp is going to be facing a Trump administration Attorney General, and Brian Kemp would find himself in jail. It’s that simple. He sold himself out, now he’s trying to hide to try to get this election validated even though it’s illegal, because if it’s invalidated. Brian Kemp and a lot of other Georgia people are in trouble, including the Secretary of State. Also, at the 17:00 mark: I’m a defamation lawyer. I have stated publicly that Brian Kemp and Raffensperger are corrupt and they took money from the Chinese on the Covid deal and on the Dominion voting deal. I bet you anything Brian Kemp won’t sue me for defamation. Because he knows if he did, he’d go into court, I’d have discovery, and I would prove that he did it, that it’s true.

Other indy (independent) media sources are also reporting that the Trump administration, via the NSA, has proof of the financial transactions that show Kemp and Raffensperger taking bribery money from communist China. Trump was waiting for Kemp and Raffensperger to complete the crime of “certifying” Georgia’s voting results before moving against them for criminal fraud and corruption.

We are now hearing that communist China ran a web of financial kickbacks and bribes to multiple governors and state officials across America, including California and Georgia, with many other states soon to follow. In every case, governors and state officials transferred huge sums of money to Chinese front companies for “Covid supplies” that were either never delivered, or delivered as low-cost, low-quality items nowhere near the stated value.

A portion of the extra funds was paid back to family members and specially structured business entities connected to the state officials, giving them control over the illicit funds. We fully expect Oregon Gov. Kate Brown to soon be implicated in this same criminal corruption scheme. NY Gov. Cuomo is likely also involved This story is developing, and more information will be emerging this week. Expect criminal indictments soon.

Hear the full interview from the John Fredericks Show here:
https://www.brighteon.com/cc528344-8f39-46f4-bbbd-09f895ef389f

Editor’s Note: The above story has been blocked on all social media. (Facebook, Twitters, etc). It’s being published here as an independent source for information. Please consider passing this information to patriot friends. I will also publish this to Parler.com. Thank you. let’s not let the MSM, corrupt politicians and deep state members steal this sacred election. Thank you.

[bk1000]

Gee whiz. I thought these magical masks were to prevent us from spreading a deadly plague. [/s]
What is it going to take, people? Will you line up for a daily head massage with a 2x4? Take off the damn mask. If you wear it because it makes you “feel safe”, then you are a sheep and deserve all that entails. May your chains rest lightly on you.

[webheart]

The quality of the masks matters little when the piddly little virus only has a .2% fatality rate and can’t kill you unless you are old and already sick. If the masks are of substandard quality, 99.8 percent of people would have no idea because they didn’t get sick in the first place.

[Liz]

Joe Biden and The Biden Crime Family dove headfirst into China's money laundering Covid-19 mask scheme.
The opportunistic Biden also raised campaign cash w/ his "mask mandate" on his website joebiden.com

CNBC.COM..Wed, Nov 11 2020, By Cory Stieg

Lookout taxpayers.....when Biden wears that worn out "trust me face" with appropriate frown, he's up to no dam good. ha

MSM CAPTION Joe Biden holds a protective mask as he speaks to the media after receiving
a briefing from his transition COVID-19 advisory board Nov 09, 2020.(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Joe Raedle

NARRATIVE --snip-- Biden announced a new coronavirus task force that consists of 13 physicians, public health experts and researchers, and outlined via a seven-point plan how his administration will address the pandemic. (He also laid out plans for economic recovery, racial justice and climate change.) So, how will Biden’s plan change daily life during the pandemic? Here’s what you need to know: More mask mandates says Biden---- While there has been no national mandate, Biden plans to “implement mask mandates nationwide by working with governors and mayors,” according to the Biden-Harris transition website. Biden plans to personally call governors and mayors of major cities to encourage mask mandates, NBC News reported Sunday.

--snip--- On the campaign trail, Biden said he supported national mask mandates in all federal buildings and all interstate transportation (which doesn’t currently exist), something that could be achieved through an executive order. --snip--

“Please, I implore you, wear a mask,” Biden said in a press conference Monday after meeting with his coronavirus advisory board. “Do it for yourself. Do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement, but it is a good way to start pulling the country together.”

SOURCE https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/11/president-elect-joe-bidens-plan-to-combat-covid-19-benefits-explained.html

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(HAT TIP THINDEN: this Covid deal resembles the shady Obama/Biden-era Madison Guarantee/Savings Loan crisis on steroids, as follows:
<><> loans, handouts, govt purchases, and grants go to hand-picked entities and/or corporations...
<><> for public consumption, “straw man” entities go belly up & default....
<><> but the real money is moving through several stops on the way to Cyprus, off-shore banks, etc, for laundering...
<><> the laundered funds are then split;
<><> the usual cast of greedsters in line to cash in: pols of all stripes, Soros, The Clinton Foundation, Obama, Hunter Biden and the Biden Crime Family, etc.....
<><> Another version has bigtime US govt handouts, grants, foreign aid, (and IMF loans like the $5 bill to Ukraine).

[dragnet2]

Yankee proud he shop at Walmart..Make America strong...Hahahah. China give you good deal. You go now Yankee, you go shop now...you be happy and proud.

[bcr100]

The layers are slowly being pulled away. They won’t be getting away with this and they seem to know it now. The NG is in DC to keep people out of people in? Hmm.

[indthkr]

California bump for later....

[drypowder]

Just another billion dollar pool of money set up by Newsom and his coconspirator criminal politicians so they can loot it. That is exactly why and how so many politicians get rich while in public office. Those who expose these crimes will be ruined before it’s over with.

[Blurb2350]

This Yankee is indeed happy and proud . . . until the heel falls off her cheap Chinese-made shoe in the Walmart parking lot.

[itsahoot]

Release everything quick now that nothing can or will be done about any of it, not that Barr or the Feebs would have done anything either. Now you know why so many of us here screamed for Trump to can those clowns. Oh well, first tribulation then salvation.

[itsahoot]

And don’t bother chatting about elections. In California, or any where else, those are a joke.

[Slyfox]

I have not worn a mask at all since back in April when three nurses screamed at me while I was standing in an empty waiting room because I refused to put on their stupid mask.

I have had a paper mask box shoved in my face numerous times. I don't know who may have sneezed covid crap into that box or with covid hands reached to the bottom of the box to grab a "clean one."

I have to travel 11 miles away in order to go to a grocery store which does not enforce the "Masks Required" signs.

I have been reprimanded five times at church for walking in without a mask on. A deacon looked right at me and chastised me in front of 150 people for not wearing a mask.

I am done with this politically-charged bioweaponized cold virus.

Done, done, done.