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Anthrax suspect Bruce Ivins, 2003.
Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide this week as investigators closed in on him as a suspect in the post 9-11 anthrax mailings, was evidently a very strange man. His psychiatric social worker filed a restraining order against him.
For prior coverage, including Sen. Tom Daschle's demand for answers, just click on Pep. The Daschle story is now gaining legs in the MSM.
The suicidal scientist revealed as the likely culprit behind the 2001 anthrax mailings was part of a megamillion-dollar deal to have his own vaccine mass produced in the wake of those biological attacks and the national panic they created.
Bruce Ivins, 62, was the co-owner of a patent on what was seen as a cure to the terrifying threat.
Before the attacks, the vaccine developed by Ivins - who killed himself last week as a seven-year federal investigation closed in on indicting him for five murders - garnered little attention. But the deadly post-9/11 mailings brought $50 billion in government funding to the field of bioterror prevention.
An $877.5 million contract was inked with biotech firm VaxGen to provide Ivins' vaccine in a deal in which he stood to profit, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. One estimate put the potential windfall in the tens of thousands of dollars.
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