Is Aaron Rossi under attack? CEO Reditus Labs

Fringe News Network has been casually following the ongoing drama between Aaron Rossi and James Davie and the battle for Reditus Labs one of the largest Covid testers in the State of Illinois. Upon looking at Media releases a common theme began to appear. This story is dominated by personal attacks that seem to be entirely one sided in an attempt to destroy one of the parties involved. These attacks have ranged from accusing Rossi of using taxpayer funds to live a lavish lifestyle to outright theft. The accusation of using taxpayer funds to buy luxury goods was particularly interesting to me. My understanding from the reporting is that Rossi and Reditus Labs received nearly 220 million in government contracts for covid testing. Now unless definitions of words have changed significantly, my understanding is that government contacts are awarded for services rendered and once services are rendered the money is no longer taxpayer funds because they have been spent by your government. Fortunately, we have the interwebs. In this day of web access and “accountability” I went to the Illinois state comptroller site to see the numbers for myself. (https://illinoiscomptroller.gov/index...) I found something very curious the comptroller’s site not only disproves the $220 Million figure that the media has been using (this search took all of 5 minutes) but the contract for public health lists the value of the contract as $156,512,534.33. Interestingly enough, when you click on the payments link, it shows no payments have been made. Equally as curious there is no contract transparency document as there is with the other contracts. It almost appears that the contract details have been scrubbed from the site, not that the State Government of Illinois would do anything nefarious. I mean its not like the last hand full of Illinois Governors has served jail time for corruption and the current Governor is under a 2-year investigation for tax fraud, that actually does involve taxpayer funds. (https://www.illinoispolicy.org/federa...) And while we are speaking of Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, it appears that Governor Pritzker is in direct competition financially with Rossi and Reditus Labs. (https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pritzk...) It is as equally curious that the leader in these one-sided personal attacks happened to be WGLT a publicly funded media company that survives on government funding and public donations, whose tag line is “You support we report”. Almost as if this government funded media agency is pimping themselves out to the highest bidder. The entire situation doesn’t seem to add up and appears to be very curious to me. I guess I will wait an see what the court proceedings produce because after all people are innocent until proven guilty in America, or at least they used to be.