Dr. Anthony Fauci is long-gone from his post at The White House and sis days of being America’s COVID-19 czar are over — but the scandals have followed him.
But the findings of an explosive investigation has found that Fauci is freeloading off a multi-million dollar scam courtesy of the American taxpayers.
Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), who retired in December 2022, reportedly got a whopping $15,000,000 in taxpayer-funded security services.
These services came after he retired and were provided between January 4, 2023, and September 20, 2024, according to government watchdog organization Open The Books.
🚨🇺🇸FAUCI RECEIVED $15M SECURITY DETAIL AFTER RETIREMENT
Fauci was guarded by U.S. Marshals post-retirement, costing taxpayers $15 million, documents reveal.
The detail, arranged by HHS, NIH, and the U.S. Marshals, covered deputy salaries, transportation, and equipment.
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Through a Freedom of Information Act request, Open the Books discovered evidence in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Marshals service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that money covered “Salaries and benefits for deputies and administrative personnel assigned to Fauci’s protective detail; costs related to transporting Fauci, and law enforcement equipment.”
The MOU also acknowledged that there was a possibility that the contract could be extended. It remains unclear if it has been, according to the report.
Open the Books’ Deputy Policy Editor Amber Todoroff and The Dossier investigative journalist Jordan Schachtel, who led the investigative report, noted:
“From 2019 to 2022 he was the highest paid federal employee. Fauci retired from the federal bureaucracy with a record $480,654 salary. In 2022 Open the Books estimated his pension would be about $355,000 per year, adding to the considerable fortune of $11 million amassed over his 54 years of government service.”
“We could find no other cases of a former federal employee receiving this level of protection,” they noted bluntly.
When Fauci still worked for the federal government, HHS provided protection for him. But, after questioning HHS about who took over that responsibility following Fauci’s retirement, Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) discovered last year that it was the U.S. Marshals Service.
Paul said he was told that the U.S. Marshals Service wasn’t directly paying for the detail, but rather it was reimbursing “somebody else” who did.
“So it’s a terrible example of the government lying to its representatives and to the people. But also, why is a retired guy — the only retired official I know of that gets this kind of treatment is a former president,” Paul told Fox News host Jesse Watters in July 2023. “So I have no idea why this bureaucrat still has a limo driver security detail.”
Fauci defended having his own protective detail in a media interview last October, saying he is a “big, big target of the extreme radical right.”
“I get so many threats. Some of them are credible threats of violence . . . that I have to be walking around with federal marshals protecting me, which is completely crazy,” he said.
Fauci became the highest-paid federal employee from 2019 to 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to report, his household net worth — which includes his wife, chief NIH bioethicist Christine Grady — exceeded $12.6 million in fiscal year 2021.
Fauci left his government post with a record $480,654 salary, which is more than the president’s annual pay.
His annual pension is estimated to be at least $375,000, according to Open the Books. By 2025, Open the Books projected that figure would reach $414,000 per year.