Dr. Anthony Fauci’s two most recent financial disclosures have been made available for public perusal by a senator.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) obtained and published the documents (pdf), which cover the years 2020 and 2019.
The forms show Fauci’s investments are in market funds, as are those of his wife.
They also show he is worth millions of dollars.
Lawrence Tabak, now the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), signed off on the forms in May 2021, about a month after they were filed. He said Fauci had complied with applicable laws and regulations.
Fauci’s 2021 disclosure is due later this year.
Fauci must file disclosures for himself and immediate family members per the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, but the disclosures had not been readily accessible.
Fauci directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is part of the NIH.
A NIAID spokesperson had told The Epoch Times that the forms could only be released if a specific document were filled out requesting them. The document states that the forms would only be available through the mail or in-person, not online. The agency had not responded when asked how long it would take to deliver the documents to a requester.
Marshall got the results in two days after writing to Fauci on Jan. 12 following a contentious Senate hearing during which he confronted the doctor over the forms.
Marshall noted that several federal officials, including Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida, recently stepped down over their failure to properly report their financial trades, and said there was “an air of appearance that maybe some shenanigans are going on” with Fauci, who regularly learns of matters before the general public before adding, “I assume that’s not the case.”
Fauci insisted the forms were “public knowledge” and have been for decades. He’s directed the institute since 1984.
After publishing the forms, Marshall accused Fauci of lying about them.
“Just like he has misled the American people about sending taxpayers dollars to Wuhan, China to fund gain-of-function research, about masks, testing, and more, Dr. Fauci was completely dishonest about his financial disclosures being open to the public—it’s no wonder he is the least trusted bureaucrat in America,” Marshall said in a statement.
“At the end of the day, Dr. Fauci must be held accountable to all Americans who have been suing and requesting for this information but don’t have the power of a Senate office to ask for it. For these reasons, I will be introducing the FAUCI Act so financial disclosures like these are made public and are easily accessible online to every American,” he added.
NIAID has not responded to recent requests for comment on the disclosures.
The act, Marshall’s office says, would require disclosures filed by officials like Fauci to be made available on the website of the Office of Government Ethics.
Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services, the parent agency of NIH, last year asking for disclosure documents filed by Fauci. The organization filed on behalf of OpenTheBooks.com, which said its attempts to obtain the documents were stonewalled by government officials.
“No one is above the law including Dr. Anthony Fauci. It shouldn’t take a subpoena or a lawsuit to force open basic employment documents that executive-level federal bureaucrats are required by law to file,” Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of the website, said at the time.
In a recent filing in the case, government lawyers said they were working on producing the requested records, including trying to figure out Fauci’s current job description. The court ordered the parties to file a joint status report by Feb. 10.
This article originally appeared on Epoch Times
This is bullshit. Fauci’s information was public before the asshat from Kansas decided to show he was pig-ignorant
And Epoch Times is such a paragon of journalism that they can’t even be bothered to fill out a form.
Stupid and lazy.
No, Fauci’s Records Aren’t Available Online. Why Won’t NIH Immediately Release Them?
Forbes by Adam Andrzejewski of openthebooks.org – It’s not public what Dr. Fauci’s salary was last year or this year. (The latest published salary is from FY2020.)
It’s not public what stocks and bonds Dr. Fauci bought and sold in 2020 or 2021, as he influenced Covid policies.
It’s not public what Fauci received – or didn’t receive – in royalties. (There are up to 1,000 current and former NIH scientists receiving royalties.) Each payment could be a potential conflict of interest.
Yes, all this information resides with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), but isn’t “public knowledge,” despite Dr. Fauci’s claims otherwise in his sworn U.S. Senate testimony.
These facts are known because an organization I lead, OpenTheBooks.com, is suing NIH for production of those records. In fact, NIH admits it holds approximately 1,200 pages relating to Fauci’s financial information and conflict of interest disclosures.
Transparency advocates say that NIH should post these documents online immediately.
At Forbes, last January, I published an OpenTheBooks’ investigation that Fauci was the most highly compensated federal employee and out-earned the President and four-star generals in the U.S. military.
Many people questioned how Fauci’s pay could exceed 4.3 million federal employees.
So Freedom of Information Act requests were filed starting on January 25, 2021 with the National Institutes of Health. Here is a list of Fauci’s documents that NIH refused to produce:
employment contract (with all amendments, changes, or modifications)
job description
confidentiality agreements
conflict of interest disclosures
financial disclosures
royalty payments.
In May, NIH was threatened with litigation and 51 pages of somewhat-redacted information was released. Within that release, I published at Forbes the important “permanent pay adjustment” memo from 2004 that revealed for the first time that Fauci was paid to prevent the next pandemic.