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Rey Flemings: NY State rejected 2,000 ordered ventilators for unknown reasons
“Only to find out that the state of New York ultimately did not want the ventilators. I had no idea why and still, you know, kind of don't know why. I would note as a footnote that, you know, a year and a half or so ago it came out that the you know, the state …”
Rey Flemings: NY State wired firm $45.9M for ventilators, prompting FBI call
“We got a wire from the state of New York for 45.9 million dollars and a phone call from the FBI.”
Rey Flemings: Ventilator prices spiked from $6K to $400K in ten days
“So the week before we took that project on, I think the average price of those devices was less than 6000 dollars. By the end of the 10 days or so that we worked on this project, the price reached nearly 400,000 dollars for a ventilator.”
Rey Flemings: Myria secured European presidential security for private American client
“We had a client who was vacationing in Europe and he wanted armed private security in a nation that did not allow for armed private security. The only people who could carry a gun in that country were on duty military and on duty, essentially federal police. T…”
Rey Flemings: FDIC holds just $130 billion to insure all U.S. deposits
“The FDIC has about a hundred and thirty billion dollars.
Shane Parrish: And if everybody withdrew their money.
Rey Flemings: This is not even everybody.
Rey Flemings: They've got a hundred and thirty billion of insurance money.
Rey Flemings: How much money do …”