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Newly released National Institutes of Health (NIH) documents show conclusively that statements made during congressional hearings to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) by then-NIH leaders Dr. Anthony Fauci and Lawrence Tabak D.D.S., Ph.D., were misleading, if not outright false, regarding third-party royalties paid before, during and after the pandemic.
Tabak, then-acting director of the NIH and Fauci, then-director of the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), both claimed before Congress that they could not release the names of the companies paying NIH third-party royalties.
Last week, however, our OpenTheBooks lawsuit based on our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request caused NIH to release new documents.
The newly released documents reveal — for the first time — the names of companies that paid NIH scientists $325 million in third-party royalties from 56,000 transactions between September 2009 and October 2020.
Our OpenTheBooks oversight reporting — which led to three congressional hearings during 2022 regarding NIH’s secret third-party royalty payments — is available here for review…
