Just The News by Greg Piper
National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials demanded a “correction” in a Forbes article on Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), based on the technical difference between receiving payment and accepting gifts.
It’s false to say the highest-paid federal employee “collected” $8,100 from attending three virtual galas, the officials said, referring to the phrasing in the original version of the Jan. 15 article on Fauci’s $1.7 million in reported household income for 2020.
Fauci “correctly reported the gifts of free attendance” for himself and his wife and “noted the market value” on his disclosure form, according to a Jan. 16 email from six NIH public and government affairs officers to Forbes Chief Content Officer Randall Lane…
