Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the highest-paid former federal employees, has been raking in the cash since quitting his day job, taking in over a million dollars in previously undisclosed income in 2023, according to newly released financial records obtained by the watchdog group Open The Books.
The source of these large deposits remains unknown, but the 141-page disclosure outlines a series of lucrative deals and special government perks that Fauci received after leaving public service. The findings come as congressional investigators reopen questions about Fauci’s role in shaping the government’s pandemic messaging—including efforts to downplay the possibility that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab.
The Daily Caller writes:
Fauci leveraged his celebrity status as the top trusted messenger on COVID-19 to pad his earnings in 2023, just as newly empowered Congressional investigators sharpened their focus on the ways Fauci betrayed the public’s trust at the pandemic’s height.
Fauci sold his memoir to a subsidiary of Penguin Random House for a reported $5 million in March 2023. That news coincided with a March 2023 congressional memo showing Fauci had privately “prompted” an influential paper dismissing the theory that COVID could have resulted from a lab accident. On July 1, 2023, Fauci began an appointment at Georgetown University as distinguished university professor in both the School of Medicine and School of Public Policy. Roughly two weeks later, two of the coauthors of that paper testified to Congress about the extent of their collaboration with Fauci.
The White House on Friday updated the official covid.gov page to highlight this paper, “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” and Fauci’s behind-the-scenes role in downplaying the “lab leak theory.”
Fauci also accepted speaking gigs with several special interest groups in 2023. Some of these organizations and trade associations — including the National Association of Chain Drug Stores and American Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) — have policy agendas that intersect with the federal government’s COVID-19 response or the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the NIH division that Fauci led for nearly four decades.
During his final year in government, Fauci earned $480,654—more than the sitting U.S. president. After stepping down, he began receiving a six-figure federal pension and retained round-the-clock taxpayer-funded security from the U.S. Marshals Service throughout 2023. That protection, which usually covers judges and federal witnesses, cost taxpayers roughly $15 million.
Former President Donald Trump ended the arrangement in early 2025, along with similar protections for former officials like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo. “They all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security too,” Trump said. “Fauci made a lot of money.”
Adding to the controversy, Fauci has been accused of misleading Congress about when he officially retired. Though he publicly claimed to retire in December 2022, internal emails show he delayed that date to January 6, 2023—just after the new Republican-led Congress was sworn in. The delay allowed him to maintain access to federal benefits, including security. He stuck to the earlier retirement date during sworn testimony as late as mid-2024.
Dr. Fauci has yet to comment publicly on the financial revelations. But with new investigations gaining steam in Congress, pressure is growing for answers on the ethical and financial conduct of one of the most high-profile public officials of the pandemic era.
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His pre-emptive pardons MUST be rescinded. He deserves to be punished as the leader of the largest “mass murderer” in the history of the civilized world.