Barry Feldheim, 43, is facing charges of making false statements to the feds on Sunday outside his Borough Park property where he allegedly stored massive amounts of N95 respirator masks, federal officials said. Records indicate that the masks were purchased in bulk orders for his medical supply business dating back to October 2018 thru December 2018.
Feldheim is also accused of price-gouging. On March 18, he’s suspected of selling a New Jersey doctor about 10,000 of the masks for $2150, a markup of roughly 5.5 percent, authorities said. Previously the same doctors office had purchased the same amount of masks for $2000 in 2009.
The accused fraudster also directed another doctor to an Irvington, NJ, medical supply shop to pick up another order. There, the doctor reported to investigators that Feldheim was allegedly hoarding enough medical supplies “to outfit an entire home.”
The materials included hand sanitizers, Clorox wipes, chemical cleaning agents and surgical supplies.
By last Monday, Feldheim was operating from his Brooklyn office, offering to sell surgical gowns to hospitals at 1-5% markup, the feds said.
Two days later, the suspected hoarder received a gigantic shipment at his home of about eight pallets of face masks.
FBI agents then staked out his house, first noticing empty boxes of N95 masks outside.
