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NYC giving Texas company millions to book coronavirus hotel rooms

New York City has shelled out roughly $15.5 million in taxpayer money to Texas travel management company Crewfacilities.com LLC in order to book more than 8,600 hotel rooms at an affordable rate for hundreds of vulnerable homeless shelter residents, frontline hospital workers and recently released Rikers Island inmates to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, according to a report by THE CITY.