Posted on 09/16/2022 4:47:14 PM PDT by lowbridge
California paid 45% less for the same COVID-19 tests that New York state bought from a company tied to $300,000 in campaign donations to Gov. Kathy Hochul — and watchdogs are calling for answers.
“The more we know the worse it looks,” John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, said while renewing his call for an investigation into the $637 million in state business paid to the New Jersey-based Digital Gadgets.
“This is a big deal. There is a lot of money and it looks really, really bad and there is a dark cloud of pay-to-play hanging over this – and it’s not going to go away.”
The revelation, first reported by the Times Union, that New York taxpayers getting soaked on the test purchases is just the latest instance of alleged corruption involving the Democratic incumbent ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
Kaehny is hardly the only Albany watcher calling for state or federal officials to probe how the New Jersey-based Digital Gadgets was able to charge the state nearly twice as much for rapid tests as the Omicron variant swept across the state last year.
“New Yorkers are supposed to believe it’s pure coincidence Gov. Hochul bought COVID tests for $12.25 apiece from a major donor, when other companies offered tests at half that price?” Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay (R-Oswego) said in a statement.
“This is negligence, incompetence or blatant corruption — maybe all three. Either way, it demands answers,” he added.
Spokespeople for state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie did not respond to requests for comment.
Cutting out the Hochul-friendly middleman might have saved the Empire State as much as $286 million out of the $637 million in total payments to the company for 52 million tests,
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Ca. skipped 45% kickback? Somebody screwed up?
Yet idiot new yorkers will still vote for this trash
The corruption in New York rivals Pennsylvania. Princess Kathy has stepped up to captain the sinking ship of the Empire State into the morass of despicable payola, and anarchy.
She (and the Demoncrats in the legislature) need to go for good.
follow the money... /s
Are the NY elites are after Gov. Kathy Hochul’s head?
Good timing for Zeldin.
99.99% of every expenditure for climate change efforts and COVID crap is legalized money laundering.
Did the nation vote for BiteMe...?
There’s a reason NYC now has RCV for mayoral elections.
FWIW, I think what’s going on is that Deep State is trying to decide if it can get away with stealing the election fir Hochul, or if it’s to risky to do before the presidential election.
If it decides not to show its cards and steal the election, there has to he a reason for Hochul going down in flames that doesn’t reflect badly on Deep State’s commie policies.
Kaleida Health and employees continue contract negotiations to avoid "devastating" strike
Interestingly, no mention of NYS's continued CoupFlu vaxx mandate for healthcare workers or the foreign replacement worker issue...
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