The DOJ announced the indictment of David M. Morens, a former top advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci, for allegedly concealing COVID-related records using his private email.
Morens remained in his position as a senior advisor in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Office of the Director from 2006 through 2022.
Morens faces four charges:
The indictment only names Morens. Those included in the indictment are Company #1, a non-profit organization in New York that “researched the origins, transmissibility, virility, and impacts of potentially emergent infectious diseases, including those associated with coronaviruses originating from animals like bats.”
Co-conspirator #1 refers to the CEO and President of Company #1.
Politico reported that congressional investigations into Morens point to “Peter Daszak, a zoologist and former president of the EcoHealth Alliance, and Gerald Keusch, a physician and former associate director of Boston University’s infectious disease lab” as the unnamed persons and company in the indictment.
Prosecutors claim Morens, co-conspirator #1, and others “conspired to defraud and commit several offenses against” America after NHI terminated a grant, Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence, for co-conspirator #1 during the pandemic.
NIH canceled the grant after the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan, China, faced allegations that COVID originated there.
Company #1 and co-conspirator #1 gave WIV a subaward.
Morens and another co-conspirator allegedly decided to help co-conspirator 1 and company #1 regain the grant.
To circumvent government rules, Morens and the co-conspirators allegedly used his personal Gmail account to transfer information and communicate.
The government claims Morens “created, transferred, and exchanged” the following federal records via his email:
“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,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “As alleged in the indictment, Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records in an effort to suppress alternative theories regarding the origins of COVID-19. 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.”
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