According to new records, the principal American collaborator of the Wuhan Institute of Virology took advantage of relationships inside Anthony Fauci's inner circle to evade federal investigation and maintain the flow of millions of public cash without providing critical data.
Numerous records, including Congressional interview transcripts and emails received through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits or subpoenas, reveal that Fauci's institute shielded EcoHealth Alliance, which worked with the Wuhan lab on innovative coronavirus engineering and discovery projects.
Fauci portrayed EcoHealth and its president, Peter Daszak, who is currently facing a federal debarment, as small-time and out-of-the-ordinary grantees during a congressional hearing this summer.
However, as word of a new coronavirus began to spread, Daszak asked for extra funding to address the situation, and EcoHealth was one of the first grantees that Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...