Ex-Fauci Adviser Pleads Guilty to Plotting to Conceal COVID-19 Research Records During Pandemic
Morens admitted using personal email to hide COVID-19 grant records, and prosecutors said the scheme involved gifts and efforts to restore a bat coronavirus grant.
- On Tuesday, former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases senior adviser David Morens pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for concealing federal records related to the COVID-19 pandemic from public view.
- Morens admitted to conspiring with EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak to bypass public records laws by using personal Gmail accounts to share nonpublic information about COVID-19 origins instead of official NIH channels.
- Court documents reveal Morens received two bottles of wine from Daszak in June 2020 for his "behind-the-scenes shenanigans," while directing co-conspirators to keep messages off government phones and email servers.
- U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis scheduled sentencing for November 12, while former NIAID director Anthony Fauci distanced himself from Morens' actions in 2024, stating Morens was not an adviser on policy matters.
- Separately, the Senate Homeland Security committee voted earlier this month to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress, recommending the Justice Department prosecute him over his handling of pandemic-era research grants.
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Former Fauci Adviser Pleads Guilty in Conspiracy to Conceal COVID-19 Records
David Morens, a senior adviser at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Office of the Director, pled guilty to shielding federal records related to the COVID-19 pandemic from the public. The post Former Fauci Adviser Pleads Guilty in Conspiracy to Conceal COVID-19 Records first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
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Fauci’s Right-Hand Man Dr. David Morens Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy
Dr. David Morens, the longtime senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), pleaded guilty on Tuesday, Aug. 18, in Greenbelt federal court to conspiracy to commit offenses and defraud the United States. The plea, entered under 18 U.S.C. § 371, caps a records scandal that began with emails in which Morens boasted about making federal documents disappear. According to the Department of J…
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