{"id":1856815,"date":"2023-02-22T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1856815"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:06:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T19:06:38","slug":"report-nyc-auctions-224-million-in-covid-supplies-for-500k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-nyc-auctions-224-million-in-covid-supplies-for-500k\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: NYC Auctions $224 Million in COVID Supplies for $500K"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-nyc-auctions-224-million-in-covid-supplies-for-500k%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1856815&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>New York City officials sold $224 million worth COVID-19 medical equipment at auction for $500,000, which included never-used ventilators.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the supplies are brand-new and unopened. The taxpayer receives a return of five dollars per dollar. Many of the items are not selling. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2023\/2\/21\/23607913\/covid-bridge-vent-ppe-auction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According<\/a> To <em>The City<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The ventilators (3,000 total) were purchased by a scrap metal dealer for less than $25,000. They were ordered by Bill de Blasio, then-mayor of New York, in April 2020 for $12,000,000. They were sold to scrap metal dealers for less than $25,000 De Blasio referred to their purchase as a &#8220;story about doing the impossible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To move the devices that were not being used, it took 28 truckloads. &#8220;non-functioning medical equipment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden will be the auctioneer <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/white-house-health-emergency-for-covid-is-out-health-emergency-for-abortion-is-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan to let go<\/a> The COVID public health emergency declared by the federal government on May 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thankfully, New Yorkers and our heroic frontline medical workers came together to avert some of the worst-case scenarios,&#8221; Nick Benson (a spokesperson for the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services) spoke about the auctioned goods.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in the city were concerned that the public might find out about the low-cost auctions. New Yorkers would be the first to ask. &#8220;about the city&#8217;s over-buying during COVID,&#8221; According to an internal email received by the government <em>The City<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The city was sold goods by companies at high prices, and the prices are continuing to drop. <em>The City<\/em> reported:<\/p>\n<p>LVLM distribution, a Pennsylvania limited-liability corporation, received $5.6 million. &#8220;hospital isolation gowns\/masks,&#8221; DCAS sold 97,850 gowns last month for $1,000. DCAS received zero bids and put the same lot back up last week, dropping it to $280.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only a fraction of one penny per gown.<\/p>\n<p>DCAS signed an original $5.7 million contract to purchase millions of isolation dresses from Faded Royalty, a Jersey City-based men&#8217;s fashion shop. The final payment to the firm was $263,000, for any gowns they were able deliver. DCAS began selling them off last autumn.<\/p>\n<p>In the first auction, DCAS tried to sell about 176,000 Faded Royalty gowns for $64,000\u2014about $2.75 per gown. It&#8217;s not clear what happened since DCAS officials wouldn&#8217;t say, but at a second auction, DCAS&#8217;s new opening bid was $1,000 for 98,175 Faded Royalty gowns\u2014about a penny per gown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City officials auctioned $224 million worth of COVID-19 medical equipment for just $500,000, including never-used ventilators as scrap metal.<br \/>\nThe post Report: NYC Auctions $224 Million in COVID Supplies for $500K appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1856818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[19405,7117,19404,4127,7332,3819,11944],"class_list":["post-1856815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-19405","tag-500k","tag-auctions","tag-covid","tag-nyc","tag-report","tag-supplies"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}