‘We just passed the 83,000 visit mark with not a single case of COVID tracked back to the facility’
The owner of a New Jersey gym who has defied Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s lockdown orders since May said he’s fined every day for keeping his gym open but not one case of COVID-19 has been traced back to his facility.
Ian Smith and his partner Frank Trumbetti, the owners of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey, have kept their business open despite an executive order shuttering New Jersey gyms and other businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. Smith appeared on “America’s Newsroom” Thursday to discuss the gym’s rebellion against the lockdown and the consequences of challenging the state.
“We open every single day. Gov. Murphy has thrown everything he possibly could to shut us down,” Smith told Fox News. “He has arrested my partner and I. He’s given us over 60 citations, some of them criminal. He fines us $15,497.76 per day for every day that we’re in operation.”