Posted on 03/11/2025 12:38:02 PM PDT by bitt
As the Biden administration exited the White House, millions of taxpayer dollars flowed into questionable hands.
According to a report from Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), a vaccine company—barely in existence, registered to a Maryland post office box, and helmed by former Biden administration officials—was quietly handed $28 million in federal funding from the National Institutes of Health’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).
In a letter addressed to newly-appointed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ernst raised serious concerns about potential corruption, calling the massive federal payout “fishy.”
“A vaccine company registered to a PO Box — and run by two former Biden staffers — got $28 million in the final months of the Biden admin, and that seems fishy,” Ernst wrote on X.
“I’ve asked Sec. Kennedy to get the American people answers and end the practice of government slush funds!”
The company in question, Vaccine Company, Inc., appears to be nothing more than a shell operation. Despite having no prior federal research contracts, it was inexplicably awarded $28.2 million in the fall of 2024 for vaccine research on flaviviruses such as Zika and dengue.
Yet, according to federal records, the company’s listed address is a mere PO Box at a U.S. Post Office in Bethesda, Maryland. A simple records search revealed that no physical office space, lab, or manufacturing facility exists at this location.
Ernst is demanding answers. “How does a company barely in existence, headed by a recent Biden political appointee, use a post office box as an address and get a $28 million check from NIH’s ARPA-H program?” she wrote in her letter to Kennedy.
The situation gets even murkier when looking at the company’s leadership.
Public filings show that Sonya Bernstein, a former Biden administration COVID-response staffer and HHS official, became Vaccine Company, Inc.’s executive shortly before the company received its windfall.
Further investigation into Bernstein’s record suggests that she went from being a Biden White House advisor to running a federally funded vaccine company in record time.
Bernstein wasn’t even the company’s first executive. In just two years, the company cycled through at least three different leadership teams, with different executives appearing on Maryland and California business filings.
According to records obtained by Sen. Ernst’s office, Vaccine Company, Inc. had previously forfeited its Maryland business registration in 2023 due to failure to file required paperwork. Miraculously, it was reinstated in 2024—just before ARPA-H awarded it $28 million.
According to the letter:
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Pedo Joe will have a hard time in prison being the bitch for every Jamal, Leroy and Muhammad.
Used to be called Racketeering.
Fraud and felony theft.
Do we have enough orange jump suits/prison cells to hold ALL OF the grifters being exposed by POTUS 47?!?!?
If not, we can make room.
It’s almost like this company was formed just to get government money.
But, no honest person would do that, right?
And he’ll have only himself to blame.
I feel America is approaching peak looting stage.
The denouement of ALL collectivist/leftist/atheist-materialist ideologies, whether the Soviet Union or woke-progressive America, is massive debt, inflation, demoralization and cynicism - followed by looting by political insiders.
I hope Trump can pull us back from the brink.
And all on our dime.
Immediate return of all funds and two years at GITMO or immediate ten years at GITMO for defrauding the American citizens. Their choice
Gosh, that’s not sketchy at all.
Neither he nor any of his family and cronies will ever see a jail. You and I have a better chance for something a lot less egregious.
People need to go to prison for this.
In a just world, there would be executions over this.
This is why we aren’t seeing the secret files yet. They have bigger fish trying to escape with the bait.
The perverts can stew awhile...
Their patron Saint is on the dime....
So now arrest the criminals.
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