Obozo's Pal Perelman

Must be a really, really, good friend, eh?  Scores $433 million from The Regime for......what?

....smallpox was eradicated in the wild decades ago: mostly because it was a genuinely terrifying threat to humanity, ...the virus now exists only in a few research locations, and we do in fact maintain sufficient stocks of existing vaccines to control an outbreak (whether via accident and/or terrorist activity).

But those facts are obviously irrelevant to spending money on friends.  Even if the friend's solution is not tested on actual people, and costs EIGHTY-FIVE TIMES more than the existing, plentiful remedy.

...the administration deliberately eliminated competitors to Siga from the bid process (claiming urgent need) to the minor detail that Siga brought SEIU leader and key Obama ally Andy Stern literally on board in 2010.

The smell of Statism unchecked.