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Hochul gave COVID test contract to campaign donor that charged taxpayers double
New York Post ^ | September 9, 2022 | Zach Williams

Posted on 09/09/2022 5:06:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Gov. Kathy Hochul had New Yorkers pay twice as much for COVID tests from a company tied to nearly $300,000 in donations to her campaign compared to other state vendors, a new report details, raising fresh concerns of alleged pay-to-play behavior ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

“Whether it was pay-to-play or total incompetence – New York taxpayers and then the federal taxpayers got massively ripped off,” John Kaehny, of the good-government group Reinvent Albany, said of the Digital Gadgets deal funded by New York taxpayers with the help of federal relief aid.

While some companies charged the state just $5 for rapid tests, the N.J.-based Digital Gadgets got as much as $13 per unit in a total of $637 million worth of no-bid deals for millions of tests as Hochul pushed schools to stay open amid the omicron wave last year, according to the Times Union

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: kathyhochul; money

1 posted on 09/09/2022 5:06:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

A real life quid pro quo


2 posted on 09/09/2022 5:08:12 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: nickcarraway

bttt


3 posted on 09/09/2022 5:09:39 PM PDT by timestax
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To: nickcarraway

She’s following right in the footsteps of her predecessor.


4 posted on 09/09/2022 5:10:57 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: nickcarraway

♪ Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash ♫


5 posted on 09/09/2022 5:11:15 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: nickcarraway

So they are still going after President Trump.


6 posted on 09/09/2022 5:11:46 PM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s okay, she’s Democrat.


7 posted on 09/09/2022 5:12:04 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: nickcarraway

Hochul’s ex strip club bouncer thugs: “Any of youse got a beef with that? Didn’t think so.”


8 posted on 09/09/2022 5:19:11 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: nickcarraway

The Greeat thing about the way Cuomo was ousted, it could be his people throwing fellow Democrats under the bus.


9 posted on 09/09/2022 5:29:13 PM PDT by UNGN
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Last year the Wu Hu Flu antibodies tests cost $38 This year they are $69

They tell me the tests are hard to get now ...


10 posted on 09/09/2022 5:30:32 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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“Last year the Wu Hu Flu antibodies tests cost $38 This year they are $69”

Does that include disposing of the needle?

Most people use the antigen tests. 4-pack, $39 on Amazon.


11 posted on 09/09/2022 5:44:55 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Tennessee Nana

Amazon. Delivered by Sept. 12.

ANTIGEN, not antibody.


12 posted on 09/09/2022 5:47:31 PM PDT by TexasGator
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