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April 5, 2022 - Epoch Times
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Adam Andrzejewski: The Faucis Live a Conflict of Interest | American Thought Leaders
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I was training a new hire and our federal payrolls were posted for the first time for the new fiscal year which was 2019 at the time and I was looking at this in January of 2021 and 2019 was the latest year available and I noticed That Dr.
Anthony Fauci was the number one top paid federal employee out earning everybody else.
And I stopped the training.
It was a new journalist.
And I said, that's your first piece.
Gross draft a thousand words.
He's the top paid.
Let's build it out from every angle and let's put it up at Forbes.
And that's exactly the story as to what happened.
We simply looked at our own website with the post of the federal payroll He was the top paid.
He was the most visible.
No one's affected public policy more in the last two years than Dr.
Anthony Fauci, and so we gave him oversight.
That's what kicked off the investigation.
And from there, people had questions.
You see, Fauci is the director of a sub-agency of a sub-agency of Health and Human Services.
So how?
How can he out-earn everybody else at the federal level, including the president?
Including four-star generals in the United States military with millions of men and women underneath their command.
4.3 million of his colleagues at the federal level.
He out-earns all of them.
How?
And that's what we started filing Freedom of Information Act requests, and that's what kicked off the investigation.
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And just to be clear, it's something like $424,000 a year, if I recall correctly?
So in 2019, he made $417,000, out-earning everybody.
And in 2020, that increased to approximately $435,000.
And now we just got the new data through for fiscal year 2021, and he's up to $456,000.
Okay.
Well, so how?
Tell me.
Oh, how?
So, we're getting to the bottom of that, but we filed the Freedom of Information Act request for some very important information for his contract with all amendments, modifications, and changes to that contract.
His job description, his conflict of interest documents, his royalties, if any, his ethics statements, you know, all of this information to codify the record so we can begin an investigation.
NIH, the National Institutes of Health, which is Fauci's employer, produced virtually nothing subject to that request.
We sued him in federal court in October.
It's now been five months when we're sitting here.
14 months since our initial Freedom of Information Act request.
Five months since the lawsuit.
And they've still virtually produced nothing subject to that request.
But today, they admit they're holding 1,200 pages subject to that request.
And Jan, let's put that in context.
A year ago, Congress passed the American Rescue Act.
It was a COVID aid bill.
They spent $2 trillion.
And it was only 600 pages.
There's 1,200 pages of Fauci financials that NIH admits to that we have a federal lawsuit on.
They're engaging in expensive litigation paid for by you and I, the taxpayer.
To keep taxpayers ignorant.
To stop taxpayers from learning how taxpayer dollars are being spent.
And that's what we're up against.
How common is it to find this kind of a roadblock like you just described?
Well I think this is unique.
Mm-hmm.
I think a decision was made back in 2004 that Dr.
Anthony Fauci was invaluable, indispensable to the ongoing concern of the United States of America based on health, safety, and biodefense.
And here's why I make that statement.
In one of the documents, there was only 58 pages produced underneath our Freedom of Information Act request, but one of the documents was a memo.
And it was a private memo.
We're the first to publish it.
And it laid out why Dr.
Anthony Fauci is the top paid federal employee.
And it was for his work on biodefense.
So I believe a decision was made that Fauci's untouchable, that he is necessary for the ongoing concern of the country on his biodefense work to keep us safe.
And that was a private memo, but in 2008, President George W. Bush, he recognized That Fauci was untouchable when he gave him the highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award.
And so that recognized that Fauci needed to be on the team, that they didn't want him jumping to a pharmaceutical company.
And it is why today that he is the top paid federal employee.
Now, you know, he was paid for his biodefense work to stop the next pandemic.
And obviously he failed in that quest.
And his detractors today and his critics will also say that his prescriptions on the COVID-19 pandemic, the prescription was actually worse than the disease.
Presumably this is why you're saying the oversight is important in situations like this.
So, you know, Tony Fauci is a big boy.
He knows exactly what he signed up for.
He is in the room helping craft the policies.
And so certainly he understands that all those decisions, the successes that he's had and the failures, will receive scrutiny and will receive oversight.
I want to touch on something you mentioned moments ago.
You said they probably wanted to prevent him from jumping to pharma.
Right.
How common is that for these HHS employees to jump to pharma?
Well, the theory is that you can make a lot more in the private sector as a top doctor, a person with expertise.
And so in order to keep Fauci on the team, they set up a special situation for him.
I don't know how common it is at NIH where scientists jump to pharma, but certainly that was what they were trying to prevent with Dr.
Fauci.
What are you expecting to see in these 1200 pages that have yet to be produced?
Given your background, your knowledge, what's going to be in there?
Not the details, but what kinds of things?
So on Dr.
Fauci's contract, we expect to see waivers for conflict of interest.
We expect that Dr.
Fauci's contract has more waivers than the contract that the Rolling Stones had when they played Madison Square Garden.
One of the waivers we expect to see is the conflict of interest waiver with him and his wife, Mrs.
Fauci, Christine Grady.
Many people don't know that Christine Grady is actually head of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health.
Dr.
Grady has admitted that her team, from an ethical standpoint, from a bioethics standpoint, has issued studies and studied, quote, millions of angles related to COVID-19, end quote.
She said this in the summer of 2020 during the hard pandemic year.
The Fauci's live a conflict of interest.
They're on both sides of the bioethics table, around the breakfast table at home, at the office, and around the dinner table.
Mrs.
Fauci, Dr.
Christine Grady, has said that her bioethics studies, they've published on, for instance, whether it's ethical to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine.
They've published studies on the therapeutic Rendenzivir.
They've done studies on the intersection between mask mandates and a loss of personal freedom.
Millions of angles on COVID-19.
While Dr.
Fauci, Tony Fauci, is running America's response to COVID-19 from a health standpoint, Christine Grady was setting the foundation on the bioethics studies.
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