As the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the country, people were desperate to get their hands on N95 masks.
Rodney Stevenson II seemed to have the answer. His website EM General advertised having masks in stock, but federal prosecutors say that was a lie.
According to a criminal complaint filed last year and indictment filed in January of this year, Stevenson pulled in more than 3.5 million dollars in sales in a matter of weeks between February and March of 2020, but delivered almost no masks. There are a lot of people who say you defrauded them, said I-Team reporter Melanie Woodrow, who spoke to Stevenson and his attorney over Zoom on Thursday.