Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC and State Department Gave Nearly $40M in Ebola Contracts to a Firm With No Experience

The CDC and the State Department awarded about $39 million in Ebola screening and outbreak-response contracts to XpresTest, a small biosecurity company that had never worked with Ebola or provided biosecurity services abroad. The awards came months after American Ventures — a fund launched by Dominari Holdings, which hired Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump as advisers — invested roughly $30 million in XpresTest's parent company, XWELL. The CDC did not respond to ProPublica's questions.