in World News Biden Cronies Cash In: Vaccine Company Registered to a PO Box, Run by Ex-Biden Staffers, Received $28 MILLION in Admin’s Final Months
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.