“On September 20, 2022, a lawsuit was filed against Fulgent Genetics, Inc. On JanuBloomberg provided the following highly disconcerting explanation coming from San Diego, California– announces that a lawsuit is pending for certain investors in Fulgent Genetics, Inc.”. (FLGT) for Violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law”.īarron’s,”a leading source of financial news” wrote as recently as January 24, 2023- “The Shareholders Foundation, Inc. Department of Justice is Investigating Fulgent Genetics, Inc. While it remains unknown if a referral to the San Joaquin County Grand Jury ever resulted into an investigation into Fulgent’s activities as 209 Times requested, it now appears some other similar allegations of impropriety (minus the national security concerns) are being made, except unlike in San Joaquin County, those allegations are finally gaining some traction:Ī recent Google search revealed that “The U.S. Based on reports from past and present LA Times staffers, it seems reasonable to suspect Mr.Shoing (and his daughter’s) editorial influence played a significant hand in how the LA Times covered Covid biotech business related stories. The FBI never publicly confirmed or denied the Sheriff’s Fulgent allegations, but the Sheriff did publicly provide convincing evidence that a FBI security briefing regarding Fulgent did in fact occur.Īrguably further complicating media coverage of the Sheriff’s allegations against Fulgent Genetics was that the Los Angeles Times’ owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, a Chinese-South African biotech billionaire, recently launched a plant that will produce a billion Covid-19ĭoses a year in Cape Town by 2025, which would make it the biggest such factory in Africa. The Sheriff’s own press conferences on the subject were overshadowed by his own numerous controversies and heated arguments with county supervisors that were widely being publicized by the LA Times. The Sheriff’s warnings, even if potentially true, were too far ahead of the public’s understanding of such issues. The public is just beginning to be exposed to the risks that artificial intelligence and advances in quantum computing are creating for national security, and how those advances (and associated risks) are intersecting with biotechnology. Connecting Fulgent’s numerous complex ties with China to the Chinese military’s alleged desire to collect global DNA data in order to create future potential bio weapons seemed a bit far-fetched to the masses. The story was hard for the general public to follow, and it appeared Fulgent’s crisis communications contractors worked hard to keep it that way. The highly controversial (now former) Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva publicly raised several red flags in the beginning of 2022 about the Los Angeles FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Coordinator allegedly warning the Sheriff during a security briefing that Fulgent Genetics’ privacy policy and practices created an alleged national security risk. Fulgent Genetics even threatened to sue the Sheriff of Los Angeles over his public comments. Few were willing to come forward, and those that did were ridiculed and labeled conspiracy theorists. Numerous government officials from both Los Angeles and San Joaquin County,speaking off the record, suspected the abandonment of normal procurement procedures due to Covid was dramatically increasing the likelihood of fraud and numerous other high level felonies though out the nation.
Locally, these concerns mostly fell on deaf ears other than 209 Times. Share on Facebook Share on X (Twitter) Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on Emailįulgent Genetics Now Being Investigated by Department of Justiceīack in March of 2022, 209 Times suspected that Fulgent Genetics and San Joaquin County’s bizarre, no bid contracts($825,000 and $2.5 million) potentially involved kickbacks, false billing, improper financial relationships and medically unnecessary tests that could gravely threaten National Security.
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