Feds charge top Fauci aide with conspiracy to hide origins of COVID

From Washington Times:

The Justice Department announced a groundbreaking criminal case Tuesday against Dr. Anthony Fauci’s former top aide at the National Institutes of Health, accusing him of suppressing information about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

Dr. David Morens was Dr. Fauci’s senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he had oversight of the agency’s grants — including one that paid for risky research at the Wuhan lab suspected of being the source of the virus.

Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch’s president, said the prosecution was the first time he could recall a criminal case over FOIA violations.

“It’s a remarkable development. It shows that thwarting FOIA can be a criminal offense,” he said. “It hope it’s the first of many.”

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