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ABC News reports:
A member of Britain’s House of Lords has acknowledged that she repeatedly lied about her links to a company that was awarded lucrative government contracts to supply protective masks and gowns during the coronavirus pandemic.
Underwear tycoon Michelle Mone said that she had made an “error” in denying connections to the company PPE Medpro, and regretted threatening to sue journalists who alleged she had ties to the firm. Her husband, Doug Barrowman, has acknowledged he led the consortium that owns the company.
Mone admitted that she is a beneficiary of her husband’s financial trusts, which hold about 60 million pounds ($76 million) in profits from the deal. But she argued that the couple were being made “scapegoats” in a wider scandal about U.K. government spending during the pandemic.
From a 2022 Guardian report:
Lady Mone’s support helped the company, PPE Medpro, secure a place in a “VIP lane” the government used during the coronavirus pandemic to prioritise companies that had political connections. It then secured contracts worth more than £200m. Documents seen by the Guardian indicate tens of millions of pounds of PPE Medpro’s profits were later transferred to a secret offshore trust of which Mone and her adult children were the beneficiaries.
Mone is known in British tabloids as “Lady Layabout.”
Some of the denials Michelle Mone & Doug Barrowman’s lawyers sent to me and @guardian here, including:
“You have now been placed on notice on numerous occasions of our client’s position in relation to PPE Medpro. She has no involvement in the business.”https://t.co/e0Ppj64dVf
— David Conn (@david_conn) December 17, 2023
Listen to Michelle Mone try to explain that her *family* has not made tens of millions of pounds. It’s just her *husband* who has made tens of millions of pounds pic.twitter.com/KfqPOUVsz2
— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) December 17, 2023