Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) who retired in December 2022, reportedly got $15,000,000 in taxpayer-funded security services — after he retired. The services were provided between January 4, 2023, and September 20, 2024.
The government watchdog organization Open The Books, which states its mission is to “work hard to capture and post all disclosed spending at every level of government – federal, state, and local,” found the evidence in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Marshals service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) via a Freedom of Information Act request, a new report states.
Open the Books’ Deputy Policy Editor Amber Todoroff and The Dossier investigative journalist Jordan Schachtel reported that money covered “Salaries and benefits for deputies and administrative personnel assigned to Fauci’s protective detail; costs related to transporting Fauci, and law enforcement equipment.”
The MOU acknowledged that there was a possibility that the contract could be extended.
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“From 2019 to 2022 he was the highest paid federal employee,” Todoroff and Schachtel noted, adding, “Fauci retired from the federal bureaucracy with a record $480,654 salary. In 2022 Open the Books estimated his pension would be about $355,000 per year, adding to the considerable fortune of $11 million amassed over his 54 years of government service.”
“We could find no other cases of a former federal employee receiving this level of protection,” they noted succinctly.
In April 2023, Fauci said in an interview that people should stop blaming public health officials for mistakes that were made during the pandemic.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked Fauci what he thought he and the scientific community “got wrong” with the policies that they pushed and implemented.
“What are the real takeaways, the real lessons for public health?” she asked.
“I think we have to get away from the blame game because so many of the things that you have mentioned were unknowns at the time,” Fauci responded. “It’s so easy.”
“This is really big time Monday morning quarterbacking here, which is what it is,” he claimed. “So, rather than have a blame game, and that’s one of the things that we have to stay away from because there were things that happened and it was a moving target and there were things that you did not know at the time and you had to, out of necessity, make a decision.”
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