Texas man pleads guilty over scam to sell NSW government masks he didn’t have for $317m

Prosecutors in Houston say Arael Doolittle, along with Paschal Eleanya, tried to sell Australian state 50m masks at five times the list price

A Texas man has pleaded guilty to involvement in a scheme to fraudulently sell 50 million N95 respirator masks he did not have for $317.6m to the New South Wales government, US prosecutors said.

Arael Doolittle entered his plea to a wire fraud conspiracy charge on Tuesday before US district judge Lynn Hughes in Houston.

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