Posted on 04/29/2020 9:11:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The state of New York paid $69 million for ventilators to a man with no background in medical supplies after he tweeted at President Donald Trump and the White House coronavirus task force recommended him as a vendor, BuzzFeed News reported.
The ventilators never arrived.
On March 27, as the novel coronavirus was surging through the US, Trump urged Ford and General Motors on Twitter to "START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!"
Yaron Oren-Pines, an electrical engineer in Silicon Valley, replied to the tweet, writing, "We can supply ICU Ventilators, invasive and noninvasive. Have someone call me URGENT."
BuzzFeed reported that New York shelled out $69.1 million to Oren-Pines three days later for 1,450 ventilators — at least three times the standard price for high-end models. A state official told the outlet that New York entered into the contract with Oren-Pines at the "direct recommendation" of the White House coronavirus task force. It's unclear who specifically authorized the recommendation.
New York has since terminated the contract and the state is reportedly trying to recover its money. Reached for comment by phone, Oren-Pines told BuzzFeed News, "Neither me nor my company is providing any comment on this," and hung up.
In a similar case earlier this month, the Trump administration awarded a $55 million contract to a bankrupt company with no employees for N95 masks, according to The Washington Post.
The company, Panthera Worldwide LLC, describes itself as a tactical training company for the US military and other government agencies, has no record of producing medical supplies or equipment, The Post said.
Panthera's parent company filed for bankruptcy protection last fall, and one of its owners last year said it'd had no employees since May 2018, The Post reported, citing sworn testimony.
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What is going on?? Is someone sabotaging Trump from within??
It was up to NY to check this guy out thoroughly.
"the Trump administration" is an inanimate object. Who in the Trump administration awarded the contract? As for the other thing, since when does Gov. Nipple Rings do what Trump tells him to do?
Please....read the first post.
“F the media and liberal politicians. It’s time for war.”
Indeed.
Indeed....Fake News.
At one point, a representative for that company virtually begged me to sign off early so that they could get my employer's cash.
So, I wonder who can possibly justify advancing 69 million dollars for as yet unseen products? There is no excuse for shipping the money faster than the seller can ship the product.
Who gives that kind of money to a group they haven’t vetted? Idiots. It’s probably one of Pelosi’s lakeys.
AND just weeks ago QuidProJoe was saying how things were taking sooooo long because Trump wanted to check it himself....make up your flipping mind.
Isn't it the job of investigative journalists to find these things out before they run with the story?
So there is actually 2 stories in that article.
1. NY got taken for 69 million dollars for 0 ventilators and it was based on a recommendation from The White House task force although there is no name for the person who made the recommendation.
2. The Trump administration gave a bankrupt company 55 million dollars for N 95 masks.
I looked up the number 2 story and found lots of stories well the same story but from sources like Daily KOs, NYT, Business Insider and other websites with the same story as posted about staring in early April to present day.
I then found a Snopes entry asking if the Trump story was true their findings were: “Mixture which” means it is not true but because of some twists and turns they don’t want to come out right and say it was a lie but it was.
Here is the Snopes piece:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/panthera-masks/
Who pays that kind of money without first seeing, and testing the item that is being offered?
Yaron Oren-Pines, an electrical engineer in Silicon Valley, replied to the tweet, writing, “We can supply ICU Ventilators, invasive and noninvasive. Have someone call me URGENT.”
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That sounds like a pretty legitimate business offer. Better than that Nigerian Prince’s email. And maybe it’s just me - but “Yaron Oren-Pines”?
The Lefty Twitter blue-checks are trying to drum up another Trump hoax.
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Good digging
For that first story....the $69-million with the WH guy making a recommendation but no one citing the name....I’d call it a bogus story. Either they produce the guy’s name, or the recommendation never occurred.
I can say that anyone carrying around $69-million in their pocket and willing to spend it....will carry a folder of notes, cost-estimates, time-lines for delivery, and signed statements. Something about this story just doesn’t ring true.
New Yorkers....wise up....Governor, Andrew Cuomo and Mayor, Bill De Blasio are killing the Great White Way, the Broadway Theater, The “Great” Manhattan Restaurants...as the subways of NYC fill up with the homeless, the criminals, the druggies, the coronavirus carriers...etc.!!!
New York City is dying economically, as the subway is the walkway & roadway of & to mid-Manhattan and the entire city. No sane person would ever ride the subway to hang out with the scum & vermin homeless of society...that Cuomo & DeBlasio have brought forth!!!
Wake up New Yorkers....get rid of Cuomo & De Blasio right now...today!!!
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