Dr. Anthony Fauci subpoenaed by three GOP state AGs for allegedly profiting off COVID-19 guidance

WASHINGTON — Dr.Anthony Fauci, the former White House COVID-19 czar who became the face of the US response to the pandemic, has been subpoenaed by three state attorneys general who are investigating whether he promulgated health guidance for “personal profit.”Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier joined West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill in requesting Fauci hand over records generated between January 2020 and August of this year.“Government officials have a certain level of immunity in their official capacities, but if Fauci personally profited off of the ‘guidance’ he issued, that very well could have broken Florida law,” Uthmeier said in a statement.“Fauci’s diary focused more on self-promotion than the legitimate safety concerns from the mRNA vaccines.

While Fauci was pushing for book deals, awards, and fortune and fame, Floridians were being deceived and harmed by his misrepresentations.”The request followed Sen.Rand Paul’s release last month of Fauci’s personal diaries, which had been made between 2019 and 2022 and preserved on government computers at the Department of Health and Human Services.In some of the earliest entries, Fauci disputed the theory that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, originated in a Wuhan, China, wet market — despite having publicly advocated for a natural spillover from animals to humans and denounced proponents of the so-called “lab leak theory.”“What we know already is Fauci lied — we just don’t know yet how much,” Murrill claimed.

“But he lied about something as basic as keeping a diary.”The former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director also prided himself in the diary on his newfound notoriety amid the pandemic and privately quizzed colleagues about awards that he could apply for.That included the nearly $1 million Dan David Prize, affiliated with Tel Aviv University, for his leadership during...