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Troubled Vaccine Maker and Its Founder Gave $2 Million in Political Donations Emergent BioSolutions faces scrutiny in Congress for ruining Covid-19 vaccines and securing lucrative federal contracts. Executives will appear before some lawmakers who benefited from the company’s spending. Fuad El-Hibri, third from left, the founder and executive chairman of Emergent BioSolutions, shaking hands with Robert Ehrlich, then the governor of Maryland, at an Emergent site in Frederick, Md., in 2004.Credit...Grant L. Gursky May 18, 2021, 7:53 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — When Fuad El-Hibri, founder and execu...

Emergent BioSolutions, the troubled vaccine maker whose Baltimore factory ruined millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses, has been paid more than $200 million in taxpayer money despite failing to address serious manufacturing control issues, according to documents released Wednesday by House Democrats.Democrats on the Oversight and Reform Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis found that under a May 2020 contract issued by the Trump...

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/EMERGENT (UPDATE 3, PIX):UPDATE 3-Emergent may be able to resume J&J COVID-19 shot production 'within days' -CEO

The government has so far paid Emergent BioSolutions $271 million, even though American regulators have yet to clear a single dose of vaccine produced at its manufacturing plant in Baltimore.

Emergent BioSolutions faces questions from lawmakers in vaccine probe Emergent BioSolutions executives testify on Capitol Hill Replay Video UP NEXT The beleaguered biotech firm Emergent BioSolutions will face a congressional inquiry Wednesday, scrutinized for what investigators say are the "serious deficiencies" in their manufacturing that led to up to 15 million doses' worth of COVID-19 vaccine ingredients being compromised and disposed of because of cross-contamination. Top Emergent executives Fuad El-Hibri, the company's founder and executive chairman, and Robert Kramer, its chief exec...