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New documents released by the Committees show that Dr. Robert Kadlec—a former consultant to Emergent who later became a senior Trump Administration official—received at least $360,000 in consulting fees from Emergent prior to joining the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and awarding Emergent billions of dollars in contracts. The awards included a $261 million order for anthrax vaccines in 2019; a ten-year, $2 billion contract for smallpox vaccines in 2019; and $650 million in coronavirus vaccine manufacturing agreements from 2020, which Dr. Kadlec later acknowledged were a risky decision.

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