{"id":176714,"date":"2020-04-06T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/06\/ka-ching\/"},"modified":"2020-04-06T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T23:54:00","slug":"ka-ching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/06\/ka-ching\/","title":{"rendered":"Ka-Ching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican fund-raiser has decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/03\/27\/republican-fundraiser-company-coronavirus-152184\">to go into the corona virus supplies business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how an ally of Donald Trump things that he can make obscene profits from this activity?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A longtime Republican fundraiser sent an email to his clients on Thursday abruptly announcing that he would no longer be working for them.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The reason: He saw an opportunity to capitalize on the coronavirus response.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cOver the last 14 days I have built another business outside politics and will be focusing my full attention there,\u201d he wrote in the email, which was obtained by POLITICO.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The fundraiser, Mike Gula, didn\u2019t specify his new line of work in the email. But in an interview, he said he\u2019d started a new company selling medical equipment that\u2019s been in short supply during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The company, Blue Flame Medical LLC, was formed Monday in Delaware, according to state records. Its website says it sells coronavirus testing kits, N95 respirator masks, \u201ca wide selection\u201d of personal protective equipment and other \u201chard to find medical supplies to beat the outbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked how he\u2019d managed to procure such equipment when there are shortages in hospitals across the country, Gula said, \u201c<b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">I have relationships with a lot of people<\/span><\/b>.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah \u2026\u2026\u2026 how come I think that the &#8220;People&#8221; involved have names that sound like Karrod Jushner?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican fund-raiser has decided to to go into the corona virus supplies business. I wonder how an ally of Donald Trump things that he can make obscene profits from this activity? A longtime Republican fundraiser sent an email to his clients on Thursday abruptly announcing that he would no longer be working for them. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,573,364,572,374],"class_list":["post-176714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-pandemic","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}