FBI Discovers Promised Stockpile of 39 Million Medical Masks Was a Scam

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News Week By Jason Lemon On 4/12/20

As state governments and hospitals have scrambled to obtain masks and other medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic, scammers attempted to sell a fake stockpile of 39 million masks to a California labor union.

The Los Angeles Times first reported on Sunday that the FBI had uncovered the scam, which has been traced back to a broker in Australia and a supplier in Kuwait. The investigators discovered the scam because they were looking into whether the supply could be intercepted by the federal government through the Defense Production Act.

The Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (known as SEIU) promised at the end of March that it would make the millions of masks available, as government agencies and hospitals planned to purchase some of the supply. But as the FBI investigated, it became apparent that the union had been duped, although no financial transaction had yet been made.

More: https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-discovers-promised-stockpile-39-million-medical-masks-was-scam-1497489

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SEIU Tried to Get Hospitals to Buy Masks That Didn't Exist

Sun Apr 12, 2020 Daniel Greenfield
 
Oddly enough, SEIU, the radical leftist union, still hasn't taken down its press release boasting of locating 39 million masks.

The press release led to plenty of good press for the radical union which has actually, in some cases, such as in New York City, obstructed public safety in the face of the Wuhan Virus. Except that there were no masks. It was all a scam.

And the media is now working hard to cover for SEIU.

A measure of how influential SEIU is in California politics can be found in the LA Times story, which not only goes to bad for the union, but fails to mention its name until the eight paragraph.

You have to dig halfway through the LA Times story to even find out which union was involved. So much for, "who, what, where".

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https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/04/seiu-tried-get-hospitals-buy-masks-didnt-exist-daniel-greenfield/

[PeteS in CA]

There is a delicious poetic justice in the SEIU getting scammed.

[Cyber Liberty]

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