Maryland cancels $12.5 million PPE contract with firm started by GOP operatives

[Zorro]

The state of Maryland on Saturday terminated a $12.5 million contract for personal protective equipment with a firm started this spring by two well-connected Republican operatives.

State officials said the company, Blue Flame Medical, failed to deliver masks and ventilators as promised and that the matter has been referred to Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) for review.

Blue Flame received a down payment of nearly $6.3 million from Maryland in early April — after promising to provide within weeks desperately needed PPE for front-line medical personnel dealing with the novel coronavirus.

Ethan Bearman, the Los Angeles attorney for Blue Flame, said Saturday he was unaware the state was unhappy with the firm.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maryland-cancels-125-million-ppe-contract-with-firm-started-by-gop-operatives/2020/05/02/b54a14f0-8cbe-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html

This pandemic has created quite an opportunity for Republican grifters.

[blm]

1. Grifting has become a rewarded skill in today's GOP.

[Andy823]

4. I think fearless leader

trump gives classes on "grifting the trump way" and if they are lucky the get one of trumps "degrees" leftover from trump U.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Scammers and grifters always come out of the shadows in times like these...nt

[malaise]

3. Off to the greatest page

I remember saying that the reason for the delays was that the ReTHUGs were organizing how to cash in.

Lock them all up!

[Varaddem]

6. +1

[tanyev]

5. Grifters On the Prowl.