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Open The Books revealed that $15 million in taxpayer-funded security for Fauci was deployed between January 2023 and September 2024.
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Federal agencies spend millions protecting now-retired Anthony Fauci
Open The Books revealed that $15 million in taxpayer-funded security for Fauci was deployed between January 2023 and September 2024.
The memorandum of understanding noted that the contract to protect Fauci could be extended. The budget for his protection came from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Jordan Elliott
November 12, 2024 11:00 AM
Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has received $15 million in taxpayer-funded security services since the start of last year.
The now-retired public health official has returned to private citizenship but has received a chauffeur and a full Marshals Service security detail, according to a
memorandum of understanding between the Marshals Service and the Department of Health and Human Services obtained by transparency group Open The Books through a public records request.
Open The Books
revealed that the $15 million in taxpayer-funded security for Fauci deployed between January 2023 and September 2024, which does not include his security expenses between April 2020 and December 2022, covered salaries and benefits for the deputies assigned to his detail, costs related to his transport, and law enforcement equipment.
The memorandum of understanding noted that the contract to protect Fauci could be extended. The budget for his protection came from the Department of Health and Human Services.
The contract for the taxpayer-funded security detail was revealed as the Marshals Service, which is responsible for capturing fugitives as well as protecting judges and court witnesses, warns that staff shortages have hindered their capacity to fulfill those core duties.
Fauci provoked
controversy as he led the federal response to COVID, especially since the National Institutes of Health were involved with gain-of-function research that occurred at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, the facility from which COVID may have originated. The veteran bureaucrat, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for four decades, was the highest-paid federal employee as of 2019. He is
estimated to have made $504,000 in pensions during the first year of his retirement and $530,000 during the second year.
Fauci retired two years ago after Republican lawmakers
vowed to investigate and prosecute the official for allegedly lying under oath about the creation of COVID through gain-of-function research. Emails indeed
demonstrated that Fauci actively sought to discourage the belief that the virus originated from experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Open The Books commented that Fauci consistently “led the fight to implement years-long draconian restrictions upon the American people” starting four years ago by means such as “lockdowns, social distancing, school closures, business closures, mask mandates, and vaccine passports.”