Federal government seizes $3.6 million from company that sold Maine counterfeit N95 masks

[Eugene]

Source: Portland Press Herald

Posted Yesterday at 8:48 PM Updated May 17

Federal government seizes $3.6 million from company that sold Maine counterfeit masks

A lawsuit seeks to have the state reimbursed for the purchase of 1.8 million fake masks late last year.

BY KELLEY BOUCHARDSTAFF WRITER

The federal government has seized $3.6 million from the bank account of a company involved in an international deal to sell the state $4.5 million in overpriced counterfeit N95 masks last December and January.

The U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine has now filed a federal civil lawsuit seeking to force the company, Med-Tech Resource LLC of Eugene, Oregon, to forfeit the money and reimburse the state for 1.8 million fake 3M respirators purchased by the Division of Procurement Services.

The complaint alleges that the $3.6 million must be forfeited because it was derived from unlawful activity, specifically wire fraud and trafficking in counterfeit goods, according to the claim filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Portland.

Meanwhile, the former CEO of Med-Tech, who is now its sales manager, said Monday that the company has already agreed to refund the $3.6 million to Maine and will cover the remaining $1.2 million.

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Read more: https://www.pressherald.com/2021/05/17/federal-government-seizes-3-6-million-for-counterfeit-masks-sold-to-maine/

[mucifer]

1. The CEO should spend years in prison for this

Poor people who cough on purpose on others go to prison. Yeah they suck and should go.

This efwad put who knows how many health care workers in peril gives back a little of his ill gotten gains.

Justice is such a joke in the USA!