Engineer Got $69M Contract for Ventilators Based on Tweet to Trump, Never Delivered

An electrical engineer from Silicon Valley got a $69 million contract to produce ventilators after tweeting at President Donald Trump last month. But the engineer, Yaron Oren-Pines (pictured), never delivered any of the 1,450 ventilators to the state of New York, which ordered them from him in response to a recommendation from the president’s Coronavirus … Continue reading Engineer Got $69M Contract for Ventilators Based on Tweet to Trump, Never Delivered