Western Standard - August 08, 2022


Department of Public Works to explain $106 million in waste on test kits

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Length

40 seconds

Words per minute

216.81

Word count

147

Sentence count

10

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Toxicity

2

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Summary

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In this episode, we talk about the ongoing investigation into the theft of $106 million worth of federal government supplies, and how the government failed to verify the credibility of the suppliers. We also talk about what we know so far about the scope of the problem, and what we can expect in the future.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Department of Public Works promises to disclose what, if anything, they did to verify the
00:00:04.220 credibility of federal COVID suppliers. I mean, this is just the tip of the iceberg. You know,
00:00:07.680 this is all that's been exposed so far. A hundred million dollars in contracting and theft
00:00:12.380 with COVID supplies and throughout. It's a lot more than that. It's a great deal more than that,
00:00:18.360 we're sure. I mean, when you get one of these, and I still don't call it an emergency,
00:00:22.660 but when the government makes it one and when they lock people down and they cause that much 0.77
00:00:25.720 distress and disorder and nightmares, the opportunists and the parasites come out of 0.90
00:00:30.260 the woodworks all over the place. And that's what's been happening here. All we know of right
00:00:36.400 now is about $106 million worth. And there's a great deal more out there.