/ 2026 / … Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, (Senator Rand Paul) Fauci referred to Department of Justice 6th August 2026 Voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress. Confirmed by DoJ on same day No news from DoJ as of Thursday 20th August Former Senior, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Official Pleads Guilty to Charges Connected to Concealing Federal Records During COVID-19 Pandemic David M. Morens, 78, of Chester, Maryland, pled guilty (in a Federal court) to conspiracy to commit offenses and to defraud the United States. Morens served as a senior advisor in NIAID’s Office of the Director from 2006 through 2022. https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/fo… Pled guilty in federal court, (18th August), to a conspiracy charge stemming from a scheme to evade Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and the Federal Records Act in connection with communications about coronavirus research grants. According to his guilty plea, Morens, Co-Conspirator 1, Co-Conspirator 2, and others conspired during the COVID-19 pandemic to defraud the United States after NIH terminated Co-Conspirator 1’s grant. NIH terminated the grant, Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence, based on allegations that COVID-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan, China. NIAID National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded the grant to Company 1 and Co-Conspirator 1, who made a subaward to the WIV. Co-Conspirator 1, ? Peter Daszak is a British zoologist who for many years led the EcoHealth Alliance. Company 1, ? EcoHealth Alliance. David M. Morens was an advisor t Dr. Anthony Fauci British scientist plotted to cover up Covid lab leak Dr Peter Daszak is accused of trying to shut down the theory that coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026… House Oversite https://oversight.house.gov/release/b… After an eight-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cut off all funding and formally debarred EcoHealth Alliance Inc. (EcoHealth) and its former President, Dr. Peter Daszak, for five years. EcoHealth and Dr. Daszak facilitated gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China without proper oversight and willingly violated multiple requirements of its multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant. Back to the David M. Morens report Following the termination, Morens and Co-Conspirator 2 pledged to help Co-Conspirator 1 restore the termination of the bat coronavirus grant and counter the narrative that COVID-19 leaked from a lab. In anticipation that their communications would be requested through FOIA Requests, Morens, Co-Conspirator 1, and Co-Conspirator 2 agreed in writing to intentionally hide their communications from public view by corresponding using Morens’s personal Gmail account, rather than his official NIH email account. The co-conspirators used Morens’s personal Gmail account to exchange non-public NIH information; correspond about their efforts to influence NIH to fund Company 1 exchange edits to drafts of letters addressed to NIH leadership for Company 1 and Co-Conspirator 1 and “back-channel” information to Senior NIAID Official 1. According to court documents, each of these matters fell within Morens’s role as senior advisor and constituted federal records that needed to be created, maintained, and exchanged on government systems. Additionally, as admitted to in his guilty plea, Morens and Co-Conspirator 1 conspired to pay illegal gratuities. Co-Conspirator 1 gifted Morens wine for his “behind-the-scenes shenanigans,” and arranged for its delivery to Morens’s Maryland residence. Morens then allegedly identified an official act that he could perform to “deserve” the gift, which was to author a scientific commentary in a prominent medical journal advocating that COVID-19 had natural origins. The Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la… We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin. Conspiracy theories do nothing but create fear, rumours, and prejudice that jeopardise our global collaboration in the fight against this virus. We support the call from the Director-General of WHO to promote scientific evidence and unity over misinformation and conjecture.
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