The two alleged fraudsters thought they had a fish on the hook, ready to pay nearly $5 million for protective masks that, according to federal prosecutors, didn’t actually exist.
How much was bail for Beavis and Buthead?
So we have very limited PPE tied up in get rich quick skams and people exposed to the virus because they can not just go down to the drug store and buy it off the shelf. Four months since this pandemic started and we still can’t find even the most basic protection to let us start to get back to normal. Dotard & Co. continue to ruin the nation’s health and economy.
ETA - Just had a teleconference with my eye Doctor. They can not get the KN95 masks and have been reusing what few they have. She suggested improvising masks as being better than nothing. Grrrrrrrrr!
That dirty ratzelfratz tRump isn’t even better than nothing.
"According to the complaint against California men Donald Allen and Manuel Revolorio, the boxes were empty, they didn’t have millions of masks, and the phone number on Allen and Revolorio’s website went to an ‘adult telephone service’.”
If these two don’t end up on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, then I don’t know what it takes to succeed in Trump’s America…
This is bad - but Flynn, who sold out his country for $ is still at large. I’d trade freedom for these two small-time operators for real jail time for Flynn.
Speaking of empty containers, what’s Mike Pence up to today?
No, seriously, for weeks Little Baby Donnie and Holy Pastor Mike told us, every dang day, that they had millions of test kits they were totally ready to ship, like, right away–and those kits, too, flat out did not exist. These guys in California are just the latest in a line of pandemic hucksters.
reached out to a man referred to as “Individual-2,” who claimed to represent wealthy investors in search of PPE. In reality, Individual-2 had previously pleaded guilty to federal felony charges
The co-conspirators introduced Investor-2 to Allen on a phone call on April 9
Same guy or two different people?
“3,800,000 million 3-ply masks”
That would be a pretty good deal. That’s almost a dozen masks for every man, woman and child in the U.S.
A new twist on the brick in the box scam back in the day,people selling VCRs back then.
Speaking of and empty container named Mike Pence can’t help but expose himself to more and more people everyday.
Hey, if the Trumps and Pence can lie like dogs about big things, why wouldn’t anyone else try to get in on the action?
Grifters grift . .
Provided they are convicted, there is not a steep enough punishment for this kind of profiteering. As others have noted, they are simply trying to follow in Trump’s footsteps. Grifters gonna grift…
There were masks in the warehouses, according to the complaint, but they too came with a catch — they didn’t belong to the men trying to sell them.
Did they have the Melanoma brand on them?
Hint…it goes on your face sweetie…
These folks are always out there. 
I’ve received a few questionable emails at my hospital address, offering N95 masks, other PPE, and ventilators(!!) for the discerning hospital administrator during this “time of crisis”. Our spam filters keep most of this crap out, but this appeared to be (badly) tailored for me personally. I loved that the particular scammers responsible casually offered any number of ventilators we might want in the same breath as paper gowns, as if there was barely any difference in procuring them. That’s the saving grace of fraudsters and internet phishers in general; they’re usually as incompetent as they are unethical. The rare few who are intelligent are the ones to watch out for.
Thankfully a global search for PPE among shady middlemen is not something we have any need to pursue at the moment. Other jurisdictions aren’t so lucky.
Semi OT but the accuracy of many coronavirus tests appears to be questionable; e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/health/coronavirus-antibody-tests.html
Hard to imagine much relaxation of shelter in place in the absence of a robust trace and contain capability and that means accurate tests.*
*needless to add the quality of state government matters a helluva lot too.
They should plead guilty fast and apply to Trump for a pardon in recognition of their entrepreneurial spirit.
And appointment as Trump’s Co-Czar’s of PPE.
Why does this look as if she just opened the door to the PPE delivery man?
