Kathy Hochul at a school in New York City on August 18, 2021. Photo: Hochul’s Facebook
Jul 21, 2022 —
Governor Kathy Hochul’s political opponents are raising questions about some donations that a small, family-owned company made to her campaign. During the time when the donations were made, the company was paid over $600 million to deliver COVID-19 tests to New York state. But the governor says there was no connection between the campaign donations and the COVID test payments.
The owners of Digital Gadgets, a New Jersey-based company that sells electronic devices, along with members of the Tebele family, contributed $300,000 in campaign donations to Governor Hochul over the past several months, as reported in the Albany Times Union. During that time period, the paper found, the company, run by the family, received $637 million dollars from the state health department for…
