Many of the boxes displayed to potential investors, ostensibly containing critical supplies of PPE, were actually empty, according to the FBI.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Allen—who served a one-year federal sentence for mail fraud in 2004—and Revolorio repeatedly misrepresented their inventories of PPE when discussing purchase orders with potential buyers. In one attempted transaction, Allen delivered three invoices to an unnamed investor, who was acting as a government informant, totaling $4.8 million for 3.8 million 3-ply masks and 500,000 respirators.
The ICIG website stated that the company stocks"thousands of the products and brands used in various professional industries" and that its"distribution centers play an essential part of the supply chain process." However, the FBI says that ICIG had no substantial inventory or distribution centers. At a nearby residence, the partner, actually an undercover agent, was shown scores of shrink-wrapped or sealed boxes, many bearing the label of 3M, a medical supplies manufacturer. After conducting a search of the Rancho Cucamonga warehouse, the residence and an additional warehouse in downtown Los Angeles, FBI agents discovered the boxes were largely empty.
After searching the Rancho Cucamonga warehouse, the FBI says agents recovered little more than 33,000 masks, far short of the 500,000 masks that were claimed to have been present. The other room inside that warehouse, ostensibly containing additional millions of masks, also did not exist.
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