Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey secured a $24 billion ruling against the Chinese Communist Party on Friday after a federal judge ruled that the US enemy was liable for damages related to hoarding personal protective equipment during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“This is a groundbreaking victory for Missouri and the United States in the fight to hold China accountable for unlocking Covid-19 worldwide,” the Attorney General said in a statement.
Missouri sued the CCP, Wuhan Institute and several other Chinese companies in 2020, claiming that China caused and exacerbated the Covid-19 pandemic by obstructing the production, purchasing, export and export of PPE.
The lawsuit accused China of producing PPE and producing protective equipment that protects protective equipment manufactured or sold in the United States.
“China's campaign to accumulate a global supply of PPE was carried out in conjunction with repeated misrepresentations of existence, as well as range and human-to-human contagiousness, the scope and human-to-human contagiousness of the Covid-19 virus.” “Plaintiffs have submitted record-breaking empirical evidence to the record.”
The judge agreed to Bailey that China violated state and federal anti-control laws, and in doing so the state “had done much harm in the form of lost net tax revenue” and “increased PPE spending.”
“In the early months of the pandemic, Missouri spent millions of people on PPE because of stocking up on the accused,” Limbaugh wrote.
The state claimed that they spent more than $122 million on PPE and lost more than $8 billion in tax revenue if they hadn't hoarded.
“China refused to appear in court, but that doesn't mean they'll escape by causing inflated suffering and economic devastation,” Bailey said. “We intend to collect all the pennies by seizing Chinese property, including Missouri farmland.”
If necessary, the Attorney General said Missouri will “identify and seize Chinese-owned assets” to work with the Trump administration to collect state records that record a $24 billion ruling.
