Contractors with no experience; black market price gouging; profiteering brokers.
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How Profit and Incompetence Delayed N95 Masks While People Died at the VA
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Federal agencies have hired contractors with no experience to find respirators and masks, fueling a black market filled with price gouging and multiple layers of profiteering brokers. One contractor called them “buccaneers and pirates.”
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