Open The Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski uncovered the “tradition of secrecy” that allowed scientists on the Nationwide Institutes of Well being — the place Dr. Anthony Fauci labored for many years — to learn from over $1 billion in royalties from grants.
It is a system that’s solely attainable as a result of the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) “is definitely a revolving door,” Andrzejewski advised comic Russell Model in a Jan. 15 interviews.
“Yearly, [the agency] dole[s] out about $32 billion price of grants to about 54,000 well being care entities throughout the USA. Assume pharmaceutical corporations, universities, analysis outfits, all the public well being complicated. That buys you a whole lot of mates, that buys you a whole lot of allies.”
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Dr. Anthony Fauci gave an replace on the omicron COVID-19 variant on the White Home on Dec. 1, 2021.
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Andrzejewski found that the NIH “management and its 2,400 scientists” have benefited from “$1.4 billion of those hidden, secret third-party royalties” over the previous 12 years.
It was a tangled internet of self-interest, Andrzejewski argued, that additionally factors to Fauci and his spouse, Dr. Christine Grady, who each work on the NIH.
“If US public well being was a sport present,” Andrzejewski mentioned, “I believe we might should name it ‘Meet the Faucis.'”
Fauci is the previous director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses (NIAID) and Grady is the chief of the Division of Bioethics on the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) Scientific Heart.
Whereas each companies are separate entities, they’re additionally each overseen by the NIH.
Fauci as soon as obtained “$45,000 of royalties for an AIDS therapeutic that he had invented,” a whistleblower advised comic Russell Model.
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It would not be the primary time that Fauci has made questionable moral selections in drugs, Andrzejewski mentioned, including: “In 2005, the Related Press acquired an unredacted database they usually discovered that Fauci had burned down all of the firewalls. He had obtained $45,000 of royalties for an AIDs therapeutic that he had invented.”
Fauci not solely benefited not directly from his personal invention, however he was additionally capable of make investments taxpayer cash in bringing his invention to market.
“Because the director of the company, he had invested one other $36 million of taxpayer cash to reinforce his invention. And as soon as this was uncovered, he mentioned he would donate his royalties to charity.”
However Fauci’s deputy director Dr. Clifford Lane, however, mentioned “he would not donate his $45,000 of royalties to charity,” in keeping with Andrzejewski.
Dr. Anthony Fauci talks with White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
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Andrzejewski additionally mentioned that his profession has suffered from his reporting on Fauci, the best paid official within the authorities, in the course of the pandemic.
“Forbes handled me nicely for eight years till I began writing about Anthony Fauci. I wrote three columns [about Fauci] over the course of three weeks and people are the final columns I ever wrote at Forbes.”
One among Andrzejewski’s articles on Fauci, revealed in January 2022, referenced monetary disclosures and confirmed that Fauci’s family made $1.7 million in 2020 alone.
Fox Information’ Thomas Catenacci contributed to this report.
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