Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration reportedly paid the company of a campaign donor $650 million for at-home COVID-19 tests.
In the year she’s been in office, Gov. Kathy Hochul has shown she can learn the ropes quickly — the ropes, that is, of New York’s corrupt pay-to-play culture. She’s proven adept at raising tens of thousands of dollars from major real-estate developers coveting special tax breaks, ho hum. But she’s surpassing even her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, in corrupting that supposedly sacred space: COVID-19 science.
Last week, Albany’s Times Union revealed that Hochul’s administration paid nearly $650 million to a middleman, Digital Gadgets, over the winter for tens of millions of at-home COVID tests at twice the market price.
It just so happens that Digital Gadgets’ founder and CEO, Charlie Tebele, is a big supporter of the governor. He and his family members have donated nearly $300,000 to her campaign.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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