American Taxpayers Spent $15 Million on Fauci’s Security
Nov 11, 2024 18:00:19 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Nov 11, 2024 18:00:19 GMT -5
American Taxpayers Spent $15 Million on Fauci’s Security Since He Retired
Frank Bergman
November 11, 2024 - 3:12 pm
Since he retired from his federal government role almost two years ago, American taxpayers have spent a staggering $15 million in security for the former top health official.
The huge sum means Americans are now paying almost 16 times as much for Fauci’s security every year than he earned in annual salary as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Fauci reportedly received millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded security services after he retired in December 2022.
The services were provided between January 4, 2023, and September 20, 2024.
The big federal spending was revealed by the government watchdog organization Open The Books.
The organization states that its mission is to “work hard to capture and post all disclosed spending at every level of government – federal, state, and local.”
Open The Books found the evidence in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The MOU was obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, a new report states.
Open the Books’ Deputy Policy Editor Amber Todoroff found 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,” investigative journalist Jordan Schachtel reported.
The MOU acknowledged that there was a possibility that the contract could be extended.
In a report for The Dossier, Todoroff and Schachtel 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 succinctly.
In April 2023, Fauci said in an interview that people should stop blaming public health officials for mistakes that were made during the pandemic.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked Fauci what the scientific community “got wrong” with the policies that they pushed and implemented.
“What are the real takeaways, the real lessons for public health?” she asked.
“I think we have to get away from the blame game because so many of the things that you have mentioned were unknowns at the time,” Fauci responded.
“It’s so easy,” he continued.
“This is really big-time Monday morning quarterbacking here, which is what it is.
“So, rather than have a blame game, and that’s one of the things that we have to stay away from because there were things that happened and it was a moving target and there were things that you did not know at the time and you had to, out of necessity, make a decision.”
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Frank Bergman
November 11, 2024 - 3:12 pm
Since he retired from his federal government role almost two years ago, American taxpayers have spent a staggering $15 million in security for the former top health official.
The huge sum means Americans are now paying almost 16 times as much for Fauci’s security every year than he earned in annual salary as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Fauci reportedly received millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded security services after he retired in December 2022.
The services were provided between January 4, 2023, and September 20, 2024.
The big federal spending was revealed by the government watchdog organization Open The Books.
The organization states that its mission is to “work hard to capture and post all disclosed spending at every level of government – federal, state, and local.”
Open The Books found the evidence in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The MOU was obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, a new report states.
Open the Books’ Deputy Policy Editor Amber Todoroff found 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,” investigative journalist Jordan Schachtel reported.
The MOU acknowledged that there was a possibility that the contract could be extended.
In a report for The Dossier, Todoroff and Schachtel 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 succinctly.
In April 2023, Fauci said in an interview that people should stop blaming public health officials for mistakes that were made during the pandemic.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked Fauci what the scientific community “got wrong” with the policies that they pushed and implemented.
“What are the real takeaways, the real lessons for public health?” she asked.
“I think we have to get away from the blame game because so many of the things that you have mentioned were unknowns at the time,” Fauci responded.
“It’s so easy,” he continued.
“This is really big-time Monday morning quarterbacking here, which is what it is.
“So, rather than have a blame game, and that’s one of the things that we have to stay away from because there were things that happened and it was a moving target and there were things that you did not know at the time and you had to, out of necessity, make a decision.”
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