JNJ - House report details relationships with Emergent and members of Congress

Documents released this morning as part of a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis report has found that executives of troubled Emergent BioSolutions (EBS) gave significant sums of money to Washington lawmakers to allegedly cultivate relationships.Emergent's co-founder, Fuad El-Hibri, has given more than $800K over the last decade to members of Congress -- mostly Republicans -- while the company's political action committee gave ~1.4M over the same period.The records also show that El-Hibri and his wife have given at least $150K to groups affiliated with Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the top Republican on the subcommittee, as well as the congressman's campaigns, according to The New York Times.The company was awarded a $628M contract last year to reserve and expand space to produce COVID-19 vaccines, but no doses have been cleared for use.A manufacturing mix-up caused by human error in March at  Baltimore facility ruined 15M doses of Johnson &

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House report details relationships with Emergent and members of Congress