Posted on 08/02/2008 3:27:22 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Bruce E. Ivins, the government biodefense scientist linked to the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001, stood to gain financially from the huge federal spending in the fear-filled aftermath of those killings, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
Ivins is listed as a co-inventor on two patents for a genetically engineered anthrax vaccine, federal records show. Separately, Ivins is also listed as a co-inventor on an application to patent an additive for various biodefense vaccines.
Ivins, 62, died Tuesday, apparently in a suicide. Federal authorities had informed his lawyer that criminal charges related to the mailings would be filed.
As a co-inventor of a new anthrax vaccine, Ivins was among those in line to collect patent royalties if the product had come to market, according to an executive familiar with the matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
From the article:
"Ivins would have stood to make tens of thousands of dollars, but not millions."
Puh-freaking lease.
That's not money, Mr. Drysdale. That's chump change.
On the other hand:
A San Francisco-area biotechnology company, VaxGen, won a federal contract worth $877.5 million to provide batches of the new vaccine.
These folks stood to gain a lot more. By the logic implied by the article, they should be on the shorter list.
my favorite writer doesn't buy it.
It's a setup...
They’re desperate for motive.
I don’t dismiss a money motive, but think it would be a grander actor, like a drug company.
From further in the aticle:
>>>Samuel C. Miller, a Georgetown Law Center professor who is a patent-law expert, said the extent to which Ivins stood to gain from the two issued patents or the one that remains pending hinged on the terms of the related contracts.
>>>The Times sought this year to obtain annual financial-disclosure statements filed by Ivins with his employer, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick.
>>>A USAMRIID spokeswoman, Caree Vander Linden, said last month that Ivins had filed financial reports that were exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.
When it is said to follow the money... follow ALL of it. K?
More mystery....
“In case you forgot about this—
It was 10 years ago today that the UK was put on high alert due to threats that Saddam Hussein was planning a massive anthrax attack inside Great Britain.”
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/10-years-ago-today-saddam-anthrax.html
UK Anthrax officer jailed for a year
October 23, 1998
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/199796.stm
read ALL of the response, Sherlock.
wtf do they put in the water in berlin, anyway?
Yeah, the FBI never lets anything or anyone slip past them.
Especially relating to terrorism.
http://www.truthout.org/imgs.art_02/saudidocs_2.pdf
Pg. 3, OBL guy.
this says nothing, Clouseau.
Show me stock account loaded with call options, and I'll think you might have a reason to wonder.
Any relation to MOLLY IVINS???
bwahaha!
Add to that, he killed himself very quickly once charges were to be filed and it says plenty.
By the way, does Trolling make you feel big?
We have documented cases of firefighters setting wildfires deliberately, just to make a few thousand dollars overtime.
This is a perfectly possible motive.
I’m not condemning the man, though. I have no idea whether he is guilty or not.
A patent search shows two relevant patents with Ivins’s name:
6,387,665 Method of making a vaccine for anthrax
6,316,006 Asporogenic B anthracis expression system
Both, however, are assigned to the US Government, Department of the Army, as is the normal case when a government employee receives a patent for something developed as part of his job.
My understanding is that the inventor does not receive any royalties, but rather they go to the US Government. It may make him eligible for bonus awards or the like, but these are not typically all that large. A few tens of thousands of dollars sounds reasonable, and perhaps even on the generous side.
Jack
In most of these cases, AFAIK, the firefighter had a psychological attraction to fire. Quite a few firefighters do, a major reason they're drawn to the field, just as many surgeons are believed to be unconcious sadists.
Almost all surgeons and firefighters channel any such tendencies they have into work for the good of society and individuals, but there's the occasional guy who lets it rip.
Although a financial incentive might be there, I doubt it's very often the only issue.
Anyone in the health care field stood to gain from anthrax attacks.
In this case (not to exclude many others), the government should be considered guilty until proven innocent. The Hatfill case leaves a strong stench. We should demand that they convict Ivins posthumously, or they should have to cut a seven-digit check to his relatives.
I still suspect the ROP.
where's laz when you need him.
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