A former government official was charged with illegally conspiring to destroy records, the Department of Justice announced on April 28.
A grand jury indicted Dr. David Morens, who was a senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci from 2006 through 2022, when Fauci was head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The institute is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Morens conspired with others to destroy and conceal records from Freedom of Information Act requests, including an individual who was not identified by name but matches Dr. Peter Daszak, who helped funnel government money to the high-level laboratory in the Chinese city where COVID-19 first appeared, according to the indictment, which was unsealed on Monday….