El-Hibri and his son, gnawing on gristle prior to 10/4, began fattening themselves on NIAID and BARDA contracts. With friends like Fauci and Kadlec in high places, BioPort, which changed its name to Emergent BioSolutions in 2004 to escape its checkered past, was enjoying the first bright days of the charmed journey that would place the El-Hibris among the elite army of COVID-19 nouveaux-billionaires in 2021.93
