Long Island man charged with hoarding tons of PPE

[Disir]

A Long Island man is charged with violating the Defense Production Act, after prosecutors say he hoarded several tons of personal protective equipment needed by first responders and health care workers who are treating Covid-19 patients and sold it at his store for huge markups, according to court filings.

In a complaint filed Friday, federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York say that Amardeep Singh, 45, filled his Long Island warehouse and store with protective equipment and sanitizing products that are in serious shortage nationwide and New York.

Long Island man charged with hoarding tons of PPE

Prosecutors allege Singh received more than 1.6 tons of face masks, 1.8 tons of hand sanitizer and shipments of shipments of surgical gowns weighing more than 2.2 tons. Singh is based in Nassau Cou…

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https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/press-release/file/1271156/download

This is going to be interesting to watch develop.

 

[miketx]

What about the businesses that have large quantities of those products in stock to sell? Will they go to jail also?

 

[fncceo]

How can you be arrested for owning property that you legally acquired?

Are we that far down the rabbit hole?

 

[miketx]

How can you be arrested for owning property that you legally acquired?

Are we that far down the rabbit hole?

Apparently.

 

[Canon Shooter]

I think they'd probably try to get him with the following:

"In order to prevent hoarding,” the Act further provides that “no person shall accumulate (1) in excess of the reasonable demands of business, personal, or home consumption, or (2) 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.”

Whether it's been legally obtained or not doesn't really factor into the equation. If he bought that stuff for, say, $10 each and is selling it for $100 a piece, he could be fucked...

 

[MarathonMike]

He shouldn't be arrested but he needs to sell it for a reasonable price to hospitals trying to protect their health care staff.

 

[OldLady]

How can you be arrested for owning property that you legally acquired?

Are we that far down the rabbit hole?

In Maine, as soon as the shutdown started, the Secretary of State made it illegal for scalpers to resell merchandise for more than 15% above the price pre-shutdown. Some yahoo was selling packs of tp for $30 or something like that.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

How can you be arrested for owning property that you legally acquired?

Are we that far down the rabbit hole?

It's called "hording", dumb ass. If you and Bill Gates were lost in the desert and on the verge of death found
a water source that he bought all up you, just before dying, quite possibly would find some wisdom in that
law. You idiot libertarian types are dangerous to yourselves.

 

[CWayne]

So, this is a law that has never been put to use, yet so many think that it is Constitutional.

The challenge to the law should be interesting.

 

[Disir]

How can you be arrested for owning property that you legally acquired?

Are we that far down the rabbit hole?

It's called "hording", dumb ass. If you and Bill Gates were lost in the desert and on the verge of death found
a water source that he bought all up you, just before dying, quite possibly would find some wisdom in that
law. You idiot libertarian types are dangerous to yourselves.

There are a lot of people on this board that wouldn't grasp what you have said but, fncceo is not one of them.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

So, this is a law that has never been put to use, yet so many think that it is Constitutional.

The challenge to the law should be interesting.

What challenge? The law has been around since WWI.
It IS Constitutional.

 

[fncceo]

If you and Bill Gates were lost in the desert

After I'd heard all his stories about banging Microsoft interns, I'd go all Donner Party on his arse.

 

[CWayne]

So, this is a law that has never been put to use, yet so many think that it is Constitutional.

The challenge to the law should be interesting.

What challenge? The law has been around since WWI.
It IS Constitutional.

LOL

It has NEVER BEEN APPLIED.

That means that there has never been an opportunity to challenge it.

Now there is.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

After I'd heard all his stories about banging Microsoft interns, I'd go all Donner Party on his arse.

Regardless, hording laws have been around since WWI.

 

[fncceo]

After I'd heard all his stories about banging Microsoft interns, I'd go all Donner Party on his arse.

Regardless, hording laws have been around since WWI.

Actually, I'm more interested in who dropped a dime on him... family or neighbors?

The first rule of prepping, don't let anyone know you prep.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

How can you be arrested for owning property that you legally acquired?

Are we that far down the rabbit hole?

In Maine, as soon as the shutdown started, the Secretary of State made it illegal for scalpers to resell merchandise for more than 15% above the price pre-shutdown. Some yahoo was selling packs of tp for $30 or something like that.

And now they're stuck with thousands of rolls of tp they'll never use. This makes my day!

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

LOL

It has NEVER BEEN APPLIED.

That means that there has never been an opportunity to challenge it.

Now there is.

It was used in March of this year, wizard! Trump used the DPA to force GM to manufacture ventilators.

Defense Production Act of 1950 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Wake the fuck up!

 

[Carl in Michigan]

After I'd heard all his stories about banging Microsoft interns, I'd go all Donner Party on his arse.

Regardless, hording laws have been around since WWI.

Actually, I'm more interested in who dropped a dime on him... family or neighbors?

The first rule of prepping, don't let anyone know you prep.

It's not prepping. He bought up the supply to resell at scalper prices

 

[Thunk]

I think they'd probably try to get him with the following:

"In order to prevent hoarding,” the Act further provides that “no person shall accumulate (1) in excess of the reasonable demands of business, personal, or home consumption, or (2) 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.”

Whether it's been legally obtained or not doesn't really factor into the equation. If he bought that stuff for, say, $10 each and is selling it for $100 a piece, he could be fucked...

Expose facto.

If he purchased the items before the defense production act went into effect it doesn't apply.

Price gouging is another matter...but if he can prove years of storage costs he should be able to beat that as well.

When somebody sells a rare comic book for 3 million...nobody accuses that seller of price gouging.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

In principle this hording bastard is no different than Martin Shkreli and he wound up in prison for buying
up a drug and then jacking the prices up sky high. He's still doing time and was fined $7.4 million dollars!

People that think this guy in NY has a legal leg to stand on are blowing smoke out their butts!