Among those vendors is Bear Mountain Development, according to two sources familiar with the issue. “Bear Mountain is not a client of Mercury.”Bauer declined to provide details about his financial arrangement with Bear Mountain or why his Mercury email address is listed on the state purchase records. By then, Bear Mountain was supposed to have delivered 60 million face shields and 120 million surgical masks, according to the records. Bear Mountain was formed in 2014 by King, who served as Alabama’s attorney general from 2004 to 2011. Mimish said on its website that it was fulfilling a California order with Bear Mountain for 400 million masks and 200 million face shields.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 09, 2020 12:00 UTC