"FBI agents and prosecutors stumbled onto the arrangement while looking into whether they could intercept the masks for the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Defense Production Act." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-11/coronavirus-seiu-masks-fraud-fbi

"The federal government has been quietly seizing supplies across the country, taking the orders placed by hospitals and clinics and not publicly reporting where the products are being routed."