Jaw-dropping spike in Fauci's fortune since COVID as fury grows over his attempts to suppress lab leak theory
Controversial health official Dr Anthony Fauci saw his net worth double in his first year of retirement from the US government.
According to OpenTheBooks, a nonprofit watchdog that obtained his financial records, Dr Fauci and his wife, Dr Christine Grady, saw their combined financial assets climb to more than $3.5 million in 2023, bringing their total net worth to over $15 million.
The former White House Chief Medical Advisor signed a lucrative deal for his memoir, On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service, which went on to become a best-seller.
He also cashed in on the speaking circuit, appearing at high-profile events since stepping down.
Dr Fauci, who played a key role in managing the Covid-19 2020 pandemic in the US, was worth was about $7.6 million in January 2019.
The doctor, who previously helmed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, left his post on January 6, 2023.
While employed by the government, the 84-year-old had a paycheck for $480,654 during his final year - marking him as the highest paid bureaucrat in the White House.
Despite his 2023 financial disclosures not specifying where the money he contributed came from, documents show Dr Fauci received multiple six-figure payments throughout 2023.
The former top officials received $100,000 in April, May and in June, $150,000 in September as well as $700,000 in November 2023.
While none of those transactions state why they were received, Dr Fauci did conduct speeches to special interest groups including the National Association of Chain Drug Stores in April and the American Health Insurance Plans in June 2023.
He also sold his memoir for just under $5 million to Penguin Random House's Crown imprint after a two-week auction.
The autobiography had hit shelves in June 2024.
Reports of Dr Fauci's staggering net worth comes days after President Trump launched a new website and stated that the Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
The White House unveiled a new Covid-19 website – with a full-length image of President Trump and the banner 'The True Origins Of Covid-19 – which pointed the finger at Beijing and previous US administration figures for promoting the false claim that the pandemic started naturally in an animal market.
The website said: 'Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology became ill with Covid-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before Covid-19 was discovered in the animal market.
'The federal government demonized alternative treatments and disavowed narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful attempt to coerce and control the health decisions of the American people'.
Noting the 'virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature', the website concludes: 'By nearly all measures of science, if there were evidence of a natural origin, it would have already surfaced. But it hasn't.'
The White House also describes the response to the pandemic by the World Health Organisation as 'an abject failure' for caving to 'pressure from the Chinese Communist Party and placing China's political interests ahead of its international duties'.
The website also accuses Dr Fauci of 'pushing the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated in nature'.
It also heavily criticizes the mask mandate, social distancing and lockdown - all of which had been backed by the former medical advisor.
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