correct. finish yes. and in tennessee i have heard from so many people in our creative community. they re in the music industry, they re authors, they re very concerned about this because they know that they re organized as an llc and a pass-through entity. their gross is much higher than their actual income, what their profit is. they know that these are audits that are going to be coming to them. and, maria, again, they re looking at the politicized nature of some of these agencies. the fbi, the irs, the epa. their thinking, hey they re thinking, hey, wait a minute, i am a law-abiding citizen, i m hard working, i m tax-paying. but they know they re coming at them. now, likewise, with this inflation reduction act people know that these excise taxes on imported oil and gas is going to
planes and trains until may 3rd. and speaking of masks, the cdc started recommending masks to the public three years ago today. but as we recall, medical masks were in short supply and price gouging was ramp it. former david mcswain tweeted, analyze and reveal the broader trend. anyone with an email address and an llc could get multi million dollar contracts for supplies, masks, gloves, tax kits etc with no real vetting. the trump administration has prepared joining us as part of our on reported policing of america s david swain himself. and he is the author of the new book, pandemic ink. chasing the thieves who got rick which while we got the sick. this is an important book that we wrote. the covid pandemic is one of the worst moments in modern pandemic history.
he at one line en masse, and they re these other characters, these brokers, and secret investors involved. and i said tell me more, and it went on for the ride. and it s set off a crazy and outrageous year of the reporting, a year and a half later. okay that s masks. how did all 50 states, who thought they were getting test kits, and up with mini soda bottles? right, so this was a company, an llc that was created about six days later. it got a 10 million dollar contract in a federal emergency agency. and looking for the deal, i just thought their name was farley. but a colleague of mine, had a pcr test. the fancy, science laboratory grid tests. and this company had no experience whatsoever with the medical space. so we were here where it is. and we threw out a story about how the government was clearly tiring more than everyone.
they re these other characters, these brokers, and secret investors involved. and i said tell me more, and it went on for the ride. and it s set off a crazy and outrageous year of the reporting, a year and a half later. okay that s masks. how did all 50 states, who thought they were getting test kits, and up with mini soda bottles? right, so this was a company, an llc that was created about six days later. it got a 10 million dollar contract in a federal emergency agency. and looking for the deal, i just thought their name was farley. but a colleague of mine, had a pcr test. the fancy, science laboratory grid tests. and this company had no experience whatsoever with the medical space. so we were here where it is. and we threw out a story about how the government was clearly tiring more than everyone. and we got this tip from state officials who said i got these tests, and they are completely unusable.
were in short supply and price gouging was ramp it. former david mcswain tweeted, analyze and reveal the broader trend. anyone with an email address and an llc could get multi million dollar contracts for supplies, masks, gloves, tax kits etc with no real vetting. the trump administration has prepared joining us as part of our on reported policing of america s david swain himself. and he is the author of the new book, pandemic ink. chasing the thieves who got rick which while we got the sick. this is an important book that we wrote. the covid pandemic is one of the worst moments in modern pandemic history. tell me how all of the efforts of the responses littered with fraud? we expected some of this, it is human nature certainly an american tradition to try and get rid of a crisis. but we ve kind of had this