So which of the SIL's friends got that ventilator contract for $69M

[malaise]

and didn't deliver one - in fact didn't produce one?

This bunch makes previous kakistocracies look like rank amateurs. Looks like Dems will have to build prisons not walls

[leftieNanner]

1. And they're not even trying to hide it any more

All out in the open.

Corruption-R-us!

[malaise]

3. More here

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/after-one-tweet-to-president-trump-this-man-got-69-million
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On March 27, as emergency rooms in New York and across the country began filling with coronavirus patients struggling to breathe, President Donald Trump posted on Twitter to urge Ford and General Motors to “START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!”

One of the thousands of replies that the tweet attracted struck an equally urgent tone: “We can supply ICU Ventilators, invasive and noninvasive. Have someone call me URGENT.”

Its author was Yaron Oren-Pines, an electrical engineer in Silicon Valley. A specialist in mobile phone technology, he currently has just 75 followers on Twitter and no apparent experience in government contracting or medical devices.

But three days later, New York state paid Oren-Pines $69.1 million. The payment was for 1,450 ventilators — at an astonishing $47,656 per ventilator, at least triple the standard retail price of high-end models.

[2naSalit]

2. I think they may have created a new mission for GITMO. ...nt

[malaise]

4. And even more here

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/495455-engineer-that-got-69m-contract-after-tweeting-trump-never-provided
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“The guy was recommended to us by the White House coronavirus task force because they were doing business with him, as well,” the official said. “I think everyone was genuinely trying to help each other out and get supplies.”

The payment to Oren-Pines was the largest single payment made by the state’s health department under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) executive order to speed up retrieving medical equipment, according to BuzzFeed News. Officials declined to say how much of the payment the state was able to get back.

[notdarkyet]

5. Why do we not want to put these people in prison? People have gone to prison for a pack,of cigarette

[dawg day]

6. During WWII, price gouging and war profiteering were crimes.

No matter what, these sound like criminal fraud.

[malaise]

7. THIS

Lock them up!

[crickets]

8. +1000000