The Associated Press reports:
When the Trump administration gave a well-connected Republican donor seed money to test a possible COVID-19-fighting blood plasma technology, it noted the company’s “manufacturing facilities” in Charleston, South Carolina.
Plasma Technologies LLC is indeed based in the stately waterfront city. But there are no manufacturing facilities. Instead, the company exists within the luxury condo of its majority owner, Eugene Zurlo.
Zurlo’s company may be in line for as much as $65 million in taxpayer dollars; enough to start building an actual production plant, according to internal government records and other documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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Former GOP Sen. Rick Santorum, who has a financial stake in it, lobbied senior U.S. government officials for funding. https://t.co/Fp15GrEKAL
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) November 1, 2020
An AP investigation finds the Trump administration gave a well-connected Republican donor seed money to test a possible COVID-19-fighting blood plasma technology, despite the concerns of government scientists. @rplardner & @jhdearen https://t.co/M0B26wgj0j
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 1, 2020