David Morens. Credit: NIAID
One of the top cronies of one of the most destructive political figures in recent memory has been indicted by President Trump’s Department of Justice.
As The New York Post reported, 78-year-old David Morens, a former senior advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci was charged with several crimes, including: conspiracy against the United States; destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal, or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting.
The Post also notes that the indictment, which was unsealed Monday in Maryland federal court, also lists two unnamed co-conspirators who “concealed, removed, destroyed and caused the concealment, and removal of federal records to evade FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] and FRA [Federal Records Act].”
More on Morens from the Post:
Morens, who served as a senior advisor to Fauci from 2006 to 2022, conducted official government business from a private email account and asked the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) FOIA liaison for tips on how to evade records requests, according to communications first exposed by The Post in May 2024.
“[T]here is no worry about FOIAs. I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail [sic], or hand it to him at work or at his house,” Morens wrote in one April 21, 2021, email. “He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”
Two months prior, Morens said in a Feb. 24 email: “[I] learned from our foia [sic] lady here how to make emails disappear after I am foia’d [sic] but before the search starts.”
“Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail [sic],” he noted.
The Post goes on to reveal that Morens wrote that he always used Gmail because his NIH email FOIA’d constantly and he wanted to ensure none of his emails reached the New York Times.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche released the following statement:
These allegations represent a profound abuse of trust at a time when the American people needed it most — during the height of a global pandemic.
As alleged in the indictment, Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records in an effort to suppress alternative theories regarding the origins of COVID-19. Government officials have a solemn duty to provide honest, well-grounded facts and advice in service of the public interest — not to advance their own personal or ideological agendas.
Morens also oversaw the infamous Ecohealth Alliance, which was exposed by animal welfare watchdog group White Coat Waste for handing millions of American taxpayer dollars to the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology for gain of function research on dangerous coronaviruses.
As TGP readers know, the Wuhan Institute of Virology played a critical role in the COVID-19 pandemic after the virus reportedly escaped from the lab.
Millions of people around the world have since perished thanks to the leak.
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