Anthony Fauci adviser indicted by DOJ on charges of concealing COVID records

U.S. Department of Justice indicted David Morens, 78, longtime senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci, for allegedly concealing records amid federal probes into COVID-19 origins.

Morens faces serious felony charges including conspiracy against the United States, destruction alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations, concealment removal or mutilation of records, and aiding and abetting. The indictment lists two unnamed co-conspirators who helped evade FOIA and Federal Records Act requirements.

From 2006 to 2022 Morens used a private Gmail account for official government business and actively sought ways to dodge records requests.

In an April 21 2021 email he wrote "[T]here is no worry about FOIAs. I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail or hand it to him at work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble."

Earlier he admitted learning "how to make emails disappear after I am foia’d but before the search starts" and confirmed he "deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail."

On September 9 2021 Morens declared he would "always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly" and "delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times."

Morens oversaw the controversial NIH grant to EcoHealth Alliance that funded bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche described the actions as “a profound abuse of trust” intended to suppress alternative theories on the origins of COVID-19.