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Good luck with that, everyone should know better than to deal with these fuckers.
Have you not been paying attention to the BS they do?
Benjamin Keime, Fuentes lawyer, must not know the optics of a quasi government contractor supplying Native Americans with defective items.
Please read Fuentes’ wiki entry, it’s like he was made for the Trump WH.
Did anyone not know these millions and billions were going to crooks? Is there one single person here who didn’t instantly assume that?
Oh, that picture of that stupid porcine fuck holding his thumb up. The whole country is going to hell and he´s voguing one of the three dumbshit looks he considers ¨Presidential¨. Fucking madness.
If you’re gonna buy snake oil, be sure and buy it from the best people.
I expect we will eventually learn the IHS was pressured or forced into this contract.
They’re just stealing as fast as they can while the ochre ogre is in power and Barr is guarding the henhouse. Jesus, I thought Reagan was bad but this is next level.
Too me it looks like he just discovered his thumb, and has no idea how to operate it.
Not to mention paying no attention to the long list of KN95 producers in China whose masks aren’t worth the powder to blow them up with. Fuentes must be thrilled he unloaded these.
I saw one news story about “sterile” surgical gowns that arrived with dead bugs in the packaging.
China manufacturing is the non-regulated, Wild West of “capitalism” that Koch et al want to bring to us. Factories popped up or retooled, and with the right bribe were suddenly in the medical PPE business.
"cancel the order for what appear to be political reasons.”
BS. They paid a premium for medical quality N95 masks. They received a variety of masks, from at least 4 companies not listed with the FDA, some marked as
“non-medical device.” “These masks will not be used in a clinical setting,”
None of the companies appear on federal government lists of approved foreign-made respirator masks. U.S.-based representatives of the companies listed in FDA records did not respond to emails and phone calls on Wednesday.
An FDA spokesperson said because the companies do not appear on an approved list of Chinese manufacturers, “their products cannot be marketed or distributed in the U.S. as respirators.”
Looks like IHS has a decent case, and Fuentes is screwed.
Those grifters within t rumpp’s obit just can’t seem to do anything right within the confines of the law.
Their only goal is to make money; those pesky laws and regulations just get in the way.
I dearly hope Biden uses the DPA to initiate manufacturing of PPE here at home. It could stimulate real entrepreneurship, not the fantasy GOP job creator kind that never actually materializes. Plus create manufacturing jobs for a country with a crying need for them – which we are, and actually have been for far too long.
I sincerely hope he is. I’d like to see him roasted on a spit.
I agree with the optics but we aren’t talking about doing business with native Americans. We are talking about doing business with IHS which is an agency of the US government.
It looks like Fuentes tried to screw the government out of money for masks. I want to know how Jared is involved. This sounds like a Kushner scam.
Yeah, but only if someone can arrest Zach Fuentes and hold him accountable. While the authorities are trying to find him, “Fred Zachary” will be relaxing in his middle years in the Bahamas from money in a Canary Islands account.
At least, if he has even the slightest amount of competence in his grifting.
Fuentes worked in the WH, there’s the connection.