Hochul gave COVID test contract to campaign
donor that charged taxpayers double
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/10/2022 9:53:05 AM
Gov. Kathy Hochul had New Yorkers pay twice as much for COVID tests from a company tied to nearly $300,000 in donations to her campaign compared to other state vendors, a new report details, raising fresh concerns of alleged pay-to-play behavior ahead of the Nov. 8 election. “Whether it was pay-to-play or total incompetence–New York taxpayers and then the federal taxpayers got massively ripped off,” John Kaehny, of the good-government group Reinvent Albany, said of the Digital Gadgets deal funded by New York taxpayers with the help of federal relief aid. While some companies charged the state just $5 for rapid tests, the N.J.-based
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State-level pay for play action with "the federal government" picking up the tab. This is American politics in a nutshell, and no one will make a credible vow to stop to it because this is how politicians become wealthy.