Anthony Fauci's closest professional confidant for decades just admitted to a federal conspiracy charge.
David Morens, 78 years old and a longtime senior advisor within NIAID's Office of the Director, entered a guilty plea on Monday to conspiracy to commit offenses and defraud the United States, as reported here. The charge centers on a calculated effort to dodge Freedom of Information Act requests and violate the Federal Records Act. The communications in question? They involved bat coronavirus research grants, including the very grant that bankrolled gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Let that sink in for a moment. This was not some random bureaucrat caught with sloppy paperwork. Morens sat at the absolute nerve center of the COVID origins saga.
Here is what the guilty plea lays out. After NIH pulled the plug on a bat coronavirus grant amid growing suspicion that COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan lab, Morens and unnamed co-conspirators worked to get that grant reinstated. They also pushed back against the lab leak theory. To keep all of this hidden from public records requests, they intentionally routed conversations through Morens's personal Gmail account instead of official government email. Coordinated. Deliberate. Documented.
Now the million dollar question emerges. Who else was involved? A conspiracy charge by definition requires partners in crime. Legal experts know that plea deals almost always come with cooperation requirements. And the biggest name connected to this entire web of email deletions and FOIA games is the guy who led NIAID for nearly four decades.
Fauci sat before the House in June 2024 and was asked point blank whether he ever destroyed records. He said no. Asked if he tried to block FOIA compliance or suppress public documents. Again, no. Questioned specifically about deleted emails tied to the Wuhan lab or pandemic origins. No, a third time, all while under oath.
Then Senator Rand Paul dropped a bombshell email from February 2, 2020, showing Fauci telling NIH Director Francis Collins to "please delete this e-mail after you read it."
That revelation fueled the contempt referral now sitting on Attorney General Todd Blanche's desk. It also explains why Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights a staggering 111 times when he appeared before the Senate. Not once. Not a dozen times. One hundred and eleven.
Five states are now pursuing their own criminal probes into Fauci on state law grounds that President Biden's federal pardon cannot shield him from. Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and West Virginia are all moving forward. Meanwhile, Senator Ron Johnson's committee possesses Fauci's COVID-era iPhone containing 34,000 text messages and just three saved contacts.
The walls are tightening. Morens just confessed to the exact conspiracy that orbited Fauci like a satellite. The real fireworks may be what Morens already shared with federal prosecutors behind closed doors. When your right hand man flips, your left hand better have a very good lawyer.
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