Missouri Judge Finds CCP Liable for $24Billion… 8 June 2025

 	**Missouri Judge Finds CCP Liable for $24 Billion for Hoarding
     COVID-19 Protective Equipment
     By Andrew Thornebrooke / 3/8/2025

     A Missouri judge has found China’s communist leadership liable
in a multi-billion dollar case over the regime’s hoarding of medical
supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
     The judgement found that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was
liable for $24 billion in damages to Missouri for exacerbating the
pandemic by obstructing American access to medical supplies.
     “This is a landmark victory for Missouri and the United States
in the fight to hold China accountable for unleashing COVID-19 on
the world,” said Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey in a
statement.
     The State of Missouri brought the case against China, its com-
munist leadership, and several subordinate departments and institu-
tions including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where some intell-
igence leaders believe that the COVID-19 virus originated.
     District Judge Stephen Limbaugh rendered the decision by
default after officials from the CCP did not appear to plead their
side of the case, a common outcome in cases dealing with foreign
entities.
     The judgement took particular care to underscore the CCP’s
role in obfuscating information about the virus early on during the
initial outbreak in China, as well as the regime’s efforts to hoard
personal protective equipment (PPE), causing shortages in the
United States.
     The case found that “China engaged in a campaign to suppress
information about the existence, scope, and then human-to-human
transmissibility, of COVID-19,” according to the judgement.
     “China’s pattern of actions strongly suggests that it had
knowledge of the existence and human-to-human transmission of the
COVID-19 virus as early as September 2019 … [and] engaged in a
deliberate campaign to suppress information about the COVID-19
pandemic in order to support its campaign to hoard PPE from Missouri
and an unsuspecting world.”
     The Epoch Times reported in early 2020 that CCP officials knew
about the outbreak in 2019 but had deployed the regime’s vast cen-
sorship apparatus to suppress the spread of information related to
the virus.
     The judgement also cites a U.S. State Department fact sheet
from 2021 which notes that the CCP devoted “enormous resources to
deceit and disinformation” about the virus in order to cover up the
origins of the virus and obscure its role in the early handling of
the outbreak.
     Evidence brought against the CCP by Missouri expands on that
by supplying evidence that the regime began quarantining doctors
and their families in Wuhan province in late 2019, despite main-
taining that there was no evidence of human-to-human
transmissibility until the end of January 2020.
     It is with this secret knowledge of the virus, the judgment
found, that the CCP began gobbling up global supplies of PPE and
other medical equipment, depleting supplies in Australia, Canada,
and the United States before those nations had awareness of the
gravity of the virus emerging in China.
     “During the early months of the pandemic, Missouri spent
millions more on PPE than it otherwise would have because of
Defendants’ hoarding,” the judgement said.
     In all, the evidence compiled by Missouri found that the state
had lost more than $8 billion related to PPE alone, both due to
inflated prices and tax revenue losses.
     Further, the state found the CCP had fulfilled treble statute
requirement, thereby permitting the court to triple the amount of
the damages to more than $24 billion plus a compounding interest of
just under 4 percent.
     Bailey wrote on social media platform X that the sum was six-
times larger than the previous largest judgement in Missouri
history, suggesting further state suits against the CCP may follow.
“Missouri is leading the fight,” he wrote.**

   There were likely many deaths because the CCP hoarded but all
the money in the world will not bring the 1.3 million Americans
that died because of their greed or hatred, whichever their logic
was to pull a stunt like that.
     May God have mercy upon their souls.

  Conservatively,
  John