A major donor to Bill de Blasio’s aborted presidential
campaign and seller of COVID-related gear to New York has scored a seat
on a powerful board controlled by the mayor.
Charlie Tebele, whose business has hawked hoverboards out
of a New Jersey warehouse, joined the board of the New York City
Economic Development Corporation, with his first appearance on May 6,
meeting minutes indicate.
A spokesperson for de Blasio said the mayor made the
appointment on March 18 — one week before Tebele and the city signed the
first of nearly $119 million in no-bid contracts for masks and
ventilators.
The nonprofit is the city’s chief vehicle for steering
subsidies and real estate to private businesses, including the failed
2018 proposal to usher Amazon to Long Island City. Last year, EDC
received more than $2 billion via exclusive contracts
from the city Department of Small Business Services, making it City
Hall’s single largest contractor, according to city comptroller records.
As THE CITY has previously reported, Tebele’s firm
Digital Gadgets LLC secured three emergency contracts in late March to
sell masks and ventilators to the de Blasio administration as the
coronavirus crisis surged and the city scrambled to secure gear.
The administration later canceled
the largest of those contracts, for $91 million in ventilators and
breathing kits, after the life-saving ventilators did not arrive — but
not until after advancing $9.1 million to Digital Gadgets.
The
firm has continued to be a major supplier of N95 and other masks to
city government, with payments totaling more than $25 million since
March 30 registered in the comptroller’s Checkbook NYC system.
Federal records show
that Digital Gadgets received Paycheck Protection Program aid of
between $150,000 and $350,000, covering a dozen workers in New Jersey —
even as the firm and a new Manhattan-registered company associated with
Tebele called Digital Gadgets Medical LLC scored tens of millions of
dollars in COVID-related business from New York, followed by Cook
County, Ill., and other local governments across the U.S.
3 comments:
Big, of course! Between his former lesbian wife and REBNY Bill is just a butt boy 😂. “Time for some booty duty, hubby....otherwise no dinner!”😂😂😂
Billy and his wife should have their bank accounts FROZEN and investigated.
Time for Fredo to remove Wilhelm from office. We will have a new election in 60 days.. meanwhile, people are dying in droves.
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