Anthony Fauci’s former senior adviser indicted for role in COVID cover-up

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Anthony Fauci’s former senior adviser indicted for role in COVID cover-up
David Morens, a senior adviser to Fauci from 2006 to 2022, faces charges of conspiracy against the United States,

 destruction or falsification of records in federal investigations, and more.



Dr. Anthony Fauci
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Apr 28, 2026
(LifeSiteNews) — A former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci has been indicted for the role he played in the cover-up of the origin of the COVID-19 virus.

In 2020, COVID-19 brought the world to a standstill as governments enforced harsh lockdowns, delivering devastating economic and social consequences to workers, families, healthcare facilities, and churchgoers.

David Morens, 78, who was a senior adviser to Fauci from 2006 to 2022, has been charged with conspiracy against the United States; destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal, or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting, according to the New York Post.

The indictment, unsealed on Monday in Maryland federal court, also lists two unnamed co-conspirators who “concealed, removed, destroyed and caused the concealment, and removal of federal records to evade FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) and FRA (Federal Records Act),” the New York Post reported.

“Morens oversaw a now-infamous grant from NIH to the Manhattan-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance beginning in 2014 that ended up funneling U.S. taxpayer dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research,” the New York Post noted.

Morens is accused of using his private email to conceal exchanges with colleagues in order to maintain control of Fauci’s preferred narrative that the COVID-19 virus originated naturally from a “wet market” near Wuhan, China, rather than from the lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where Fauci was reportedly secretly funding “gain of function research” – an area of scientific experimentation banned in the United States.

In May 2024, Morens testified before the House COVID Select Subcommittee about an email that he sent in February 2021 claiming that he had learned to make emails disappear after he received FOIA requests, according to a Fox News report.

“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,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.

“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,” Blanche continued. “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.”

“Not only did Morens allegedly engage in the illegal obfuscation of his communications, but he received kickbacks for doing so,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement.