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A state official told Buzzfeed that Oren-Pines was directly recommended to them by the White House Coronavirus Task Force.New York, like most states, normally does not pay out on contracts before they are fulfilled; but Governor Andrew Cuomo temporarily suspended that safeguard last month via executive order, as the state scrambled to source medical equipment amid the coronavirus outbreak.
"We had no choice but to overturn every rock to find ventilators and other needed equipment," senior Cuomo adviser Rich Azzopardi told the site. A spokesperson for Vice-President Mike Pence, who chairs the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said it was"never informed of this contract and was not involved in it at all."
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