Then-Navy Secretary Richard Danzig testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1999.
Ex-Navy secretary Richard Danzig, also an expert on bio weapons and adviser to Senator Barack Obama when the Illinois Democrat was running for President, has urged the U.S. government to spend millions stockpiling a drug to combat a virulent form of anthrax.
The Los Angeles Times‘ David Willman reported Sunday that “Danzig did this while serving as a director of a biotech startup that won $334 million in federal contracts to supply just such a drug…By his own account, Danzig encouraged Human Genome Sciences Inc. to develop the compound, and from 2001 through 2012 he collected more than $1 million in director’s fees and other compensation from the company, records show.”
Danzig told the newspaper his role at the company posed no conflict, but others disagreed. “Holy smoke,” said Dr. Philip K. Russell, a biodefense official in the George W. Bush administration, “that was a horrible conflict of interest,”
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