By LINDA BOYLE
It’s amazing to discover that various companies were awarded taxpayer dollars just as former President Joe Biden was going out the door.
One that caught my eye was the $28 million awarded to a start-up company that doesn’t even have a web page. And on its grant application, it listed a Maryland post office box.
The National Institutes of Health provided this grant to a venture-backed company called Vaccine Company Inc. The grant’s purpose was to develop flaviviruses vaccines to combat viruses that include West Nile, dengue, and Zika viruses.
NIH’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health selected Vaccine Company along with three university sites (La Jolla Institute for Immunology, University of Washington, Vanderbilt University) to develop a more robust platform for vaccine development. The goal is to target more than one specific virus at a time—develop vaccines for a family of viruses, such as flaviviruses in the case of Vaccine Company, Inc.
The selected company was to “focus on predictive modeling and machine learning tools to design proteins that can act as broadly effective antigens.” The goal of this research was to identify the protein structures of viruses so to be able to create “more broadly effective, safe, and accessible vaccines.” So, if a new virus in that family of viruses emerges, it will be easier to create a vaccine for it.
That certainly is a laudable goal. Research in that area may be good for humanity. It is the kind of research that needs to be done by experts in the field. It is hoped this research could also lead to advancements in the treatment of cancer.
Enter Vaccine Company. This is a new biomedical firm was established in 2022. Its chief financial officer was one of Biden’s top Covid advisors. In researching its location, it gives one P.O. box address in Bethesda Maryland, one in Chicago, and one in California.
There is no company web page to explain how these sites are linked together and even if they are. And there are three different home bases in their business registration filings.
Further intrigue exists. Nowhere can I find exactly who makes up the board of directors. There is a lot of mystery surrounding this organization. I do know it has already spent $2 million of its grant funds—but I can’t tell you on what.
All this information became public when Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst urged Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to investigate why this startup company with no history of accomplishments but with connections to Biden received this grant. Ernst further suggested RFK Jr. claw back any amount still unspent, if the grant was found to have been given inappropriately.
Ernst told the Free Beacon, “From listing its mailing address as a P.O. box to being run by former Biden staffers, there are alarm bells going off as to how and why Vaccine Company, Inc. was awarded a lucrative government contract. Unfortunately, there are more questions than answers because everything this company does is shrouded in mystery. It should not be this hard to figure out where $28 million in tax dollars are going. The American people deserve to know.”
Ernst has given HHS until 17 March to finish its investigation. It will be interesting to see what comes out. How was VCI vetted? Where is it located? Who is involved? Was it given as a political favor? Where is the truth?
It’s well past time to connect the dots to many of our federal grants and contracts.
Linda Boyle, RN, MSN, DM, was formerly the chief nurse for the 3rd Medical Group, JBER, and was the interim director of the Alaska VA. Most recently, she served as Director for Central Alabama VA Healthcare System. She is the director of the Alaska Covid Alliance/Alaskans 4 Personal Freedom.
In any normal situation the Biden advisors, wife, and family of the last 6-12 months of his term would be charged with senior fraud if this was his personal money, instead of public funds.
It’s very sad that they all abused him, leaving him looking demented, like an incompetent fool without any legacy of respect.
But it definitely leaves you to question the integrity of his family, his trusted circle and his political party.
Well Senator Murkowski what do you think about that?? Fraud and more fraud! That is what President Trump is cleaning up! Stand behind him!
“…already spent $2 million of its grant funds….” Most likely, that was one month’s salary for the one person who put together this phony company, and part of that was kicked back to the Biden crime family. Anyone with at least a frog’s brain knows this is a scam
Isn’t this just shocking news that Biden may have done something not above board? 🤣 Let us hope people get prosecuted and go to jail. All the way to the to.
There were reasons for the Biden puppet handlers to issue blanket pardons for themselves and their donors.
This grant is just one among tens of thousands of payoffs.
In the larger picture, our entire economy is built off using the government as a piggy bank for grant writing, subsidies for enterprises run by donors and creating regulations to stifle competitors.
We see this in Alaska as it is so transparently obvious. The toll on our family based social structure is catastrophic.
What will millions of highly paid useless bureaucrats and non productive companies do when we revert to a productive economy necessitating skilled workers who actually work and need to show up at work punctually?
The dispensing of government benefits class will become the begging for crumbs class. A reversal of roles. Just in time before complete collapse.
Jail time. But it never happens.
Linda – could you give us an update on the Texas measles story. Has the administration of Vitamin A ended that outbreak?
Classic money laundering operation.