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Brooklyn man arrested for hoarding masks, coughing on FBI agents
https://nypost.com/2020/03/30/brooklyn-man-arrested-for-hoarding-masks-coughing-on-fbi-agents/
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A Brooklyn man claiming to be infected with the coronavirus coughed on FBI agents who were investigating him for hoarding medical supplies, the US Attorneys Office said Monday.
Baruch Feldheim, 43, is facing charges of assault and making false statements to the feds on Sunday outside his Borough Park home where he allegedly peddled and stored massive amounts of N95 respirator masks, federal officials said.
Feldheim is also accused of price-gouging. On March 18, hes suspected of selling a New Jersey doctor about 1,000 of the masks for $12,000, a markup of roughly 700 percent, authorities said.
The accused fraudster also directed another doctor to an Irvington, NJ, auto repair shop to pick up another order. There, the doctor reported to investigators that Feldheim was allegedly hoarding enough medical supplies to outfit an entire hospital.
The materials included hand sanitizers, Clorox wipes, chemical cleaning agents and surgical supplies.
By last Monday, Feldheim was operating from his Brooklyn home, offering to push surgical gowns to a nurse, the feds said.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Turbineguy
(37,312 posts)sounds like he's a qualified trump appointee.
MyOwnPeace
(16,924 posts)don't you see what the MAGAts will say?
"Feldhiem - that's one of them there Jews making a killin' - I knew they was behind this, always looking for a way to screw "us" over."
Pathetic - but you KNOW someone out there is spreading the "proof" that the supplies are "going out the back door."
malaise
(268,846 posts)Makes me wonder
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Hasidic. I lived near large numbers of them in NY, and a lot of them think the laws don't apply to them.
MerryBlooms
(11,761 posts)These resources cost $500,000 and are expected to ship in the coming days.
https://abc7ny.com/nypd-coronavirus-nyc-news-updates/6065991/
crickets
(25,959 posts)2naSalit
(86,502 posts)malaise
(268,846 posts)believe me on that - What's more - Don the Con already owns the patent for the Ugliest American
2naSalit
(86,502 posts)It's just what popped into my weary head at the moment.
GaYellowDawg
(4,446 posts)I hope the arresting officers beat the absolute shit out of him.
Celerity
(43,258 posts)there are pics of a an orthodox haredi with the same name floating out there but I have not seen it confirmed
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