Company Linked to Trump Sons Lands Ebola Contracts
The awards include $20 million for outbreak response and $18.8 million for Ebola screening, despite XpresTest’s limited experience abroad.
- President Donald Trump's administration awarded biosecurity firm XpresTest nearly $40 million to screen for Ebola and other infectious diseases, months after a firm linked to Donald Jr. and Eric Trump invested in its parent company, XWELL.
- American Ventures, a fund launched by Dominari Holdings, invested about $30 million in XWELL after hiring Donald Jr. and Eric Trump as advisers and granting them a stake of more than 10%.
- XpresTest has never worked with Ebola or provided biosecurity services abroad, yet CEO Ezra Ernst acknowledged that international work is "a new thing for us" and expressed uncertainty about completing the response.
- In July, XWELL announced plans to sell XpresTest to a private spa company, with Ernst saying the government contracts played a role in the $13 million sale price and will follow the subsidiary to its new owner.
- These biosecurity awards join broader questions about Trump family financial activities during his second term, with the House Oversight Committee, now led by Democrats, expected to prioritize investigating such government ties in the coming months.
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Company Linked to Trump Sons Lands Ebola Contracts
“The Trump administration awarded a small biosecurity company nearly $40 million to screen for Ebola and other infectious diseases just months after a firm linked to President Donald Trump’s elder sons invested in its parent company,” ProPublica reports.
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The Trump administration awarded a small biosecurity company nearly $40 million to screen for Ebola and other infectious diseases just months after a firm linked to President Donald Trump’s elder sons invested in its parent company, according to records and interviews.The contracts, one to screen for Ebola in several U.S. airports and the other to respond to disease outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are seven times the total value o…
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