Posted on 04/12/2020 12:05:38 PM PDT by rktman
The 39 million N95 masks the Service Employees International Union announced it had discovered turned out to be an elaborate scheme, according to the FBI.
In late March, the union rushed out a press release:
The union launched an exhaustive search for masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) five days ago in response to pleas from frontline healthcare workers that they need more protection and feel unsafe on the job as they treat the growing number of COVID-19 patients. SEIU-UHW has 97,000 members who work in hospitals across California.
Within 48 hours of painstakingly calling leads and potential suppliers, the union discovered a distributor who had the 39 million masks, and has since found another supplier who says his company can produce 20 million more masks a week. The union also has found a supplier who can deliver millions of face shields.
The union didn’t identify the alleged distributor.
Now, the FBI claims the union was “duped” in an elaborate scheme, the Los Angeles Times reported.
U.S. Atty. Scott Brady of the Western District of Pennsylvania said FBI agents and prosecutors stumbled onto the arrangement while looking into whether they could intercept the masks for the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Defense Production Act. …
Brady said investigators tracked the tip back to a Pittsburgh businessman, who said he had been working with the union to secure millions of masks, some of which were purported to be sitting in a Georgia warehouse. Brady said the businessman had been using WhatsApp to connect with a broker in Australia and a supplier in Kuwait, who are both now the target of a federal investigation.
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Thx for some reason, age, I had it backwards.
IIRC, Lowes had 10 packs of 3M N95’s for just over $20 back in late January. “Had” being the key word, however: There was a price tag on the shelf, but no 10 packs of masks. That might have been the “valve” version. At that time they still had a few singles. Heck, Lowes still shows them at $5 for a 2-pack online - unavailable, of course.
Someone would have to explain this convoluted scheme to me.
Journalists, reporters, anchors who deliver news that makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE and just go on with the story as though everyone knows what the heck is meant.
Sorry to say, I often don’t grasp the story by the anchors at OAN. I love the channel, however, whoever is writing the news does NOT give clear facts and they go on to the next item while I’m still trying to read the Closed Captioning...which in itself is a disaster.
But, that’s just me. I like words fully pronounced, not slurred with the next four words, and at least have a verb in the sentence.
I still love OAN though
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Too late for this solution. The unions will actually prohibit firing or elimination of jobs in Fed. It would take an act of Congress and fat chance getting it to address an over bloated bureaucracy that only puts $$$$$$$$ in their pockets.
Don’t forget LaVoy Finicum
Snort, snort.
A point well taken...
Sound like the FBI verified it was a hoax as they were getting ready to swipe the masks from their intended recipients.
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