Galls allegation

Two arizona state representatives are accusing a lexington-based company of inflating the price of respirator masks for first responders.

Representatives greg stanton and ruben gallego say galls regularly supplies protective equipment and medical supplies to the phoenix police and fire dpeartments.

The two accuse the company of marking up the price of n-95 respirator masks by more than 500 percent in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.

In a letter to u.s. attorney general and the federal trade commission... the representatives said quote: profiting from the coronavirus pandemic... especially in a manner that places our first responders in harm's way is morally indefensible" end quote.

But galls vice president bryan clarke defended the price increase... telling the arizona republic newspaper that supplies of the masks are scarce worldwide and the supplier they had to go through in china was selling the masks at a very high cost.... and it had to student with the university of kentucky's college of pharmacy have