District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The case against the defendants was brought in the U.S. Those people “shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.”
But the violation of the DPA can also lead to criminal penalties against “Any person who willfully performs any act prohibited, or willfully fails to perform any act required, by the provisions of this title or any rule, regulation, or order thereunder.” ( see page 5). The DPA, as has been discussed time and again, can compel the private sector to produce necessary materials in a time of crisis-items like ventilators, etc. That agent was identified in the complaint as UC-2.īulloch allegedly laughed after saying he wouldn’t look good in orange.Īs Law&Crime has reported before, the DPA authority President Donald Trump invoked is extremely broad.
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The sworn affidavit and complaint of FBI Special Agent William Bollinder, which you can read in full below, detailed a really awkward “exchange” Bulloch and Young allegedly had with an undercover FBI Special Agent. Unbeknownst to the defendants, the purported investor was a federal law enforcement agent.
To conceal their exorbitant markup on the masks, Bulloch created and signed an escrow agreement for a purported investor that falsely stated that the profits on the re-sale of the masks would not exceed 10 percent. “ogether with others,” the DOJ said, Bulloch and Young “did knowingly and intentionally conspire to accumulate, for the purpose of resale at prices in excess of prevailing market prices, materials which have been designated by the President as scarce materials or materials the supply of which would be threatened by such accumulation, to wit: certain personal protective equipment (‘PPE’), including KN95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators (the ‘KN95 Masks’) and 3-Ply surgical masks (the ‘3-Ply Masks’), contrary to Title 50, United States Code, Section 4512.”īulloch and Young sought out potential investors to sell one million KN95 respirator masks for double or triple the purchase price. of Phoenix, Arizona were each accused of conspiring to violate the DPA in or about and between March 2020 and April 2020. Kent Bulloch, identified as a 56-year-old California attorney and businessman, and 64-year-old William “Bill” Young Sr. The Department of Justice announced charges on Tuesday against two men, one of them an attorney, for allegedly conspiring to profit off of scarce personal protective equipment (PPE) in violation of the Defense Production Act (DPA). Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C.
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