FIRST ON FOX: A top Florida official is slapping Anthony Fauci with a subpoena over alleged "profiting" from federal guidance that hurt businesses, residents.Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Wednesday he has issued an investigative subpoena against former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci.The subpoena is part of a state probe into Fauci’s awards, incentives and guidance that impacted Florida’s residents and their businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.FAUCI'S FIFTH FUELS VOW TO HAUL HIM INTO COURT 'EVERY DAY' DESPITE BIDEN PARDONA split of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and former NIAID Director Anthony Fauci (Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)The announcement comes after Uthmeier, along with Sen.Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., pledged to have Fauci investigated at the state level following his Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing last week when he pleaded the Fifth 111 times and references were made to his blanket federal pardon from former President Joe Biden."We issued a formal subpoena to Dr.
Fauci under Florida state law, seeking a breadth of documents ranging to what he knew when he knew it, his doubts about the safety and efficacy of vaccines that he's out there promoting, and we're really focused in on his self-dealing," Uthmeier announced on Fox News."Evidence has come to light that he was trying to personally profit off of this.This is outside of his government duties, his official role: He's trying to pursue book deals, awards, get connected with high rollers that might help him come into millions and millions of dollars.
This is wrong, and it could go towards a deceptive trade practice, fraud, public nuisance, you name it.I think there's many aspects of Florida law that now are implicated."Uthmeier said the activities he is being subpoenaed over were revealed largely through his diary – several hundred ...