Former Fauci Adviser Pleads Guilty in US to Conspiring to Conceal COVID Records
David Morens admitted helping hide emails and documents as prosecutors said the scheme targeted COVID-19 grant records and could bring five years in prison.
- On Tuesday, David Morens, a former senior official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland.
- Prosecutors alleged Morens and others used personal email to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act and restore a National Institutes of Health grant related to bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan lab.
- The 78-year-old faces up to five years in prison when sentenced on November 12; attorney Timothy Belevetz said Morens "has taken responsibility for what he did."
- Former NIAID leader Anthony Fauci appeared before a Senate panel last month, though prosecutors have not accused him of wrongdoing in connection with the Morens case.
- Tensions persist over the pandemic's origin: the FBI claims a Wuhan lab leak is likely, the CIA maintains "low confidence," and Fauci called Republican Senator Rand Paul's campaign "unhinged.
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Fauci’s Former Advisor Admits Involvement in COVID Grant Scheme – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Dr. David Morens, a former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci, pleaded guilty Tuesday, Aug. 18, to conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with concealing federal records during the COVID pandemic. Morens was a long-time official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). He worked with NIAID for 20 years and served as a senior adviser in the Office of the Director from 2006 to 2022. Federal prosecutors …
On August 18, David Morens, a scientific advisor to Anthony Fauci, declared guilty of suppressing critical information after the termination of a NIH grant for Coronavirus research together with co-conspirators. Free-lance MEP Gerald Hauser sees this date as a key day in the process: the conspiracy is no longer a conspiracy theory – the trick of the virus origin has been proven. Hauser has critical questions to the EU... In the US, the legal ela…
For years, when someone asked for more transparency on research into coronavirus funded by the United States, on relations with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or on internal discussions about the origin of Sars-Cov-2, the answer was often a word that became good for almost everything: "complottism" . Then the documents arrive. And sometimes even the admissions of guilt arrive. On August 18, David Morens, for sixteen years senior advisor in the…
Former Senior Advisor to Fauci Pleads Guilty to COVID Cover-up Charges
Former Senior Advisor to Fauci Pleads Guilty to COVID Cover-up Charges Dr. David Morens, a former senior advisor to COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci, pled guilty Tuesday to crimes relating to a scheme to prevent public disclosure of information regarding the origin of the deadly COVID-19 virus.Morens served as a senior advisor at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), led by Fauci, from 2006 through 2022.Morens pled gui…
Fauci’s Advisor Pleads Guilty
David Morens, the longtime senior adviser who worked inside Anthony Fauci’s Office of the Director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit offenses and defraud the United States. Morens admitted participating in a scheme to evade the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Records Act...
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