MF has been rumbled by the Feds

[DimPrawn]

Feds Give Seized Masks, Gloves to N.Y., N.J. Health Workers

The Justice Department and Department of Health and Human Services have seized 192,000 N95 respirator masks, 598,000 gloves, and 130,000 other personal protective equipment and disinfectant from someone hoarding those supplies, they announced Thursday.

The supplies were seized under the Defense Production Act, and a fair market value will be paid to the owner, the HHS said. The supplies are already being distributed to health-care workers in New York and New Jersey.

[northernladuk]

I hope it's less than they paid for them.

Not sure how they'll work a fair market price out for the 100k plastic sledges though.

[ladymuck]

I'd be closely checking the seals on the packets...

[WTFH]

Is being "rumbled by the feds" better or worse than being fingered by the fuzz?

[darmstadt]

I see the Americans also grabbed a load of supplies which were meant for France:

A consignment of masks heading from China to one of the worst hit coronavirus areas of France was hijacked by American buyers as it was about to be dispatched, it was reported on Thursday, writes Kim Willsher.The masks were on a plane on the tarmac at Shanghai Airport ready to take off when US buyers turned up reportedly waving wads of cash and offered three times what the French were paying.
The plane later left for an unreported destination in the States.
Jean Rottner, an emergency hospital doctor at Mulhouse in eastern France, and president of the GrandEst regional council, confirmed reports that part of an order of masks heading for the region, where intensive care units are inundated with coronavirus patients, had been snatched by America.
“On the tarmac, they arrive, get the cash out and pay three or four times more for the orders than we have, so we really have to fight,” Rottner told RTL radio.

Seeing as the USA have stopped a shipment going to Cuba from China too, maybe France should offer to ship them there to piss them off

[AtW]

Lesson - use your own military cargo planes to fly high value stuff (and pay staff well)

[darmstadt]

Lesson - use your own military cargo planes to fly high value stuff (and pay staff well)

Lesson, don't trust the septics

[AtW]

Lesson, don't trust the septics

What trust got to do with it? You should not trust valuable cargo in such conditions to anybody apart from armed forces

[BrilloPad]

MF was caught buying 10 large cakes the othercday. He sauid panic buying. I reckon a morning's supply....

[darmstadt]

What trust got to do with it? You should not trust valuable cargo in such conditions to anybody apart from armed forces

Yeah right. Armed guards aren't going to help, you want to take on the US government you do that: Spies, hijacks and export bans: the global battle for coronavirus equipment | World news | The Guardian