The Department of Justice indicted a former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday for allegedly partaking in an unlawful “scheme” to avoid open records requests related to Covid-19 research grants.
“These allegations represent a profound abuse of trust at a time when the American people needed it most — during the height of a global pandemic,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement announcing the charges. “Government officials have a solemn duty to provide honest, well-grounded facts and advice in service of the public interest — not to advance their own personal or ideological agendas.”
