A federal grand jury in West Virginia has indicted a state health office manager over claims he approved over $34 million in Chinese coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic relief payments to a private company without confirming that the vendor provided goods and services it was under contract to deliver.
The indictment, filed on a Tuesday in a federal court in Charleston, accuses Timothy Priddy, a former director of the state Bureau for Public Health’s Center for Threat Preparedness, of providing false statements to federal agents in August 2022. and during grand jury testimony the following month.
