Fauci received $15 MILLION in taxpayer-funded security perks after retirement: report

For the first year of his retirement, Dr. Anthony Fauci reportedly enjoyed $15 million worth of taxpayer-funded security services.

Between Jan. 4th, 2023, and Sept. 20, 2024, a whopping $15 million was spent on protecting Fauci, who resigned in December of 2022 as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), according to Open The Books.

“Up until at least late September, this agreement between the two government agencies has left the American taxpayer on the hook for the costs attached to Dr. Fauci’s lifestyle, which included a publicly-funded chauffeur and a fully staffed U.S. Marshals security detail,” the government watchdog group notes.

Open The Books obtained proof of this by filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for access to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

According to the MOU, the $15 million was paid for the salaries and benefits of the personnel assigned to protect Fauci, for the costs of transporting Fauci, and for additional law enforcement equipment.

“The MOU states that the contract could be extended, and it is unknown if it has been,” Open The Books notes. “We asked the Marshals Service for clarification, and they did not get back to us within our deadline. We will provide an update if they respond.”

Responding to this reporting, critics were flummoxed, flabbergasted, and angry.

Look:

Note what the latter critic wrote. It’s a valid point. If Fauci is as great and noble a man as he envisions, then why would he need security? Perhaps it’s because he’s not so great and noble after all.

“[H]is detractors recall a government official who led the fight to implement years-long draconian restrictions upon the American people, which devastated the fabric of U.S. society, greatly harmed the economy, and caused all kinds of additional negative repercussions – including widespread learning loss among America’s youth,” Open The Books notes.

“Fauci was never shy to advocate for lockdowns, social distancing, school closures, business closures, mask mandates, and vaccine passports from his powerful federal perch during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the watchdog group continues.

Despite unleashing all this on the American people, he was the highest-paid federal employee between 2019 and 2022.

All this comes days after a pivotal election that some believe may have stark consequences for Fauci.

“This will not go well for Fauci,” former Levi’s exec Jennifer Sey tweeted after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory last week. “Good.”

She was, as previously reported, forced out of Levi’s after she started speaking out in opposition to COVID-era school closures.

Sey has been critical of Fauci for years now.

Below is an example from 2023:

Sey wasn’t alone in her predictions about Fauci.

“Very bad night for unindicted felon Fauci…who now is on an fast track to becoming indicted and convicted felon Anthony Fauci,” prominent molecular biologist Richard H. Ebright tweeted.

Look:

Will Fauci actually face any sort of scrutiny or even prosecution? What’s known is that over the summer, House Oversight and Accountability Committee chair James Comer told reporters he was in search of evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Fauci. The remarks were made hours after Fauci testified before Congress again.

“I think the American people saw the slick-talker who fooled America, who has probably done more harm to public education, he did more harm to our national debt and to our economy than any single human being in my lifetime,” Comer said in a Newsmax interview, as reported by The Hill.

“Hopefully, we can take his words today and continue to try to gather evidence and take steps to try to hold him in criminal wrongdoing, because I believe that the majority of Americans realize that Dr. Fauci made costly mistakes, he’s lied about them and he’s tried to cover it up,” he added.

Vivek Saxena

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