The scandals keep a rollin from the Obama administration. The Department of Energy isn’t the only purveyor of crony capitalism; the Department of Health and Human Services is also raiding the treasury for Barack Hussein Obama’s buddies, as reported by the Los Angeles Times:
Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work.
Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work.
Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world's richest men and a longtime Democratic Party donor.
When Siga complained that contracting specialists at the Department of Health and Human Services were resisting the company's financial demands, senior officials replaced the government's lead negotiator for the deal, interviews and documents show.
When Siga was in danger of losing its grip on the contract a year ago, the officials blocked other firms from competing.
Siga was awarded the final contract in May through a "sole-source" procurement in which it was the only company asked to submit a proposal. The contract calls for Siga to deliver 1.7 million doses of the drug for the nation's biodefense stockpile. The price of approximately $255 per dose is well above what the government's specialists had earlier said was reasonable, according to internal documents and interviews.
That price is reasonable when you donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to Barack Obama and the Democratic Party; after all, they didn’t work for that money.
That price is reasonable when you donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to Barack Obama and the Democratic Party; after all, they didn’t work for that money.
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