Open the Books’ Adam Andrzejewski said Forbes told him he could never write about Fauci again.
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — A longtime Forbes contributor said he has been pushed after eight years of writing columns due to pressure from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
“The National Institutes of Health … top executives wrote an email to myself and Randall Lane, the top content officer at Forbes, it was couched as a corrections [and] they quibbled about small things in my column but that was the excuse that Forbes used to cancel the column,” Adam Andrzejewski told Tucker Carlson on February 14.
Andrzejewski is the CEO and founder of Open the Books, a government transparency organization.
The email followed a January 15 article titled “Disclosures Show Dr. Fauci’s Household Made $1.7 Million In 2020, Including Income, Royalties, Travel Perks And Investment Gains” that reported on the publicly available information about the chief coronavirus policy advisor’s finances.
He is now listed as a “former contributor” on the Forbes website. He said he has written 206 columns over an eight-year period for the business news publication.
It also reported on the household income of the Fauci family, which includes his wife Christine Grady, the NIH’s chief bioethicist. Within a day of the email, Andrzejewski’s editor at Forbes said he could no longer write about Fauci.
“You describe the whole point of journalism is to tell people what their government which they pay for which claims to represent them is actually doing,” Carlson said in response. “I just I think it’s a shocking story I really do.”
The government transparency advocate said other voices that are not approved by the “organs of state authority” are in a similarly precarious situation when they report on people in power.
“Today, if you are an independent voice, outside of the organs of state authority, you are in jeopardy. I am an example of this,” Andrzejewski told the New York Post. “My column at Forbes became an example of that.”
Neither Forbes nor the NIH responded to multiple requests for comment on the allegations made by Andrzejewski.
LifeSiteNews emailed Forbes’ public relations team twice in the past week but did not receive a response. “Forbes regularly removes contributors who don’t meet our high editorial standards,” Bill Hankes told the New York Post.
LifeSiteNews emailed Amanda Fine, Renate Myles, and Emma Wojtowicz, public relations officials with the NIH, but did not receive a response to two emails sent in the past week.
Further reporting can be found at OpenTheBooks.com.
Editor’s note: The author is a former intern for Open the Books.
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Disclosures Show Dr. Fauci’s Household Made $1.7
Million In 2020, Including Income, Royalties, Travel Perks And Investment Gains
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Last night, U.S. Senator Roger
Marshall received Dr. Anthony Fauci’s unredacted FY2020
financial disclosures. The release following a heated Senate exchange between Fauci
and Marshall which concluded with Fauci called the senator a “moron.”
The financial disclosures contain a
wealth of previously unknown information. For example, the Fauci household’s
net worth exceeds $10.4 million.
During the pandemic year of 2020,
their household income, perks and benefits, and unrealized gains totaled
$1,776,479 — including federal income and benefits of $868,812; outside
royalties and travel perks totaling $113,298; and investment accounts
increasing by $794,369.
Here are the numbers as compiled by
the auditors at OpenTheBooks.com, an organization I lead. This analysis used
previously known information plus the newly released disclosures.
Investment Income: $794,369
Disclosures show $794,369 in gains in
the Fauci stock, bond, and money market portfolio during 2020. The total value
of Dr. Fauci’s investment account was $8.4 million and his wife’s investments
totaled another $2.1 million.
These funds were held in a mix of
trust, retirement, and college education accounts. Fauci has an IRA worth
$638,519 (up $42,291); a defined benefit brokerage account totaling $2,403,522
(up $241,418); and a revocable trust worth $5,295,898 (up $342,694). His wife’s
revocable trust is worth $1,962,819 (up $156,123) and an IRA totaling $120,277
(up $11,843).
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Some on the right have speculated
that Fauci may have profited off the pandemic. The disclosures show that he’s
invested in fairly broadly targeted mutual funds, with no reported holdings of
individual stocks.
Fauci’s disclosures show that he owns
a stake in a San Francisco restaurant, Jackson Fillmore, worth between $1,000
and $15,000: but received no income from the restaurant in FY2020 (or in
FY2019).
Previously, NIH had released heavily redacted financial
disclosures of Dr. Fauci. Redactions included the fund balances, so a net worth
analysis was impossible until now.
Salaries: $668,312
Dr. Fauci is the director of the
National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases and his wife Christine
Grady is the chief bio-ethicist at the National Institutes of Health.
Background: Fauci earned $434,312 in
cash compensation (FY2020) outearning all 4.3 million federal employees
including the president and four-star generals in the U.S. military. Between
2010 and 2020, Dr. Fauci earned cash compensation of $3.7 million from his
federal employer. Review Fauci’s ten-year salary history in my previous column published at Forbes.
Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady is the
chief bio-ethicist at the National Institutes of Health and made $234,284 in
FY2020, as disclosed by FOIA to OpenTheBooks.com in August
2021. Grady’s FY2019 pay was also $234,284 and since 2015, Grady made $1.3
million in cash compensation.
However, Fauci’s financial
disclosures only show that Grady made $176,000 for FY2020.
NIH does still not disclose Fauci’s
current salary (FY2022) or last year’s salary (FY2021), despite comment
requests for the information. Therefore, Fauci earned an estimated total of roughly
$900,000 during the period.
Perks And Pension Benefits: Est.
$200,500
Federal employees have a lucrative
amount of paid time off, subsidized healthcare, pension benefits and a myriad
of other perquisites. For example, after just
three-years, a rank-and-file federal employee receives 44 days of paid time
off. Dr. Fauci has held a federal job for 55 years.
A good faith estimate of the taxpayer
cost of those benefits is 30-percent multiplied by the salary amount for Dr.
Fauci and his wife.
Background: The study — published at Forbes in December — showed that when
Fauci retires he’ll reap a retirement pension estimated at $350,000 per year,
the highest in federal history. With cost-of-living increases, Fauci would
receive over $1 million during his first three years of retirement.
Royalties And Professional
Reimbursements: $100,000
Disclosures show that Dr. Fauci edits
the medical textbook, Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine and
serves on the board of the publisher, McGraw Hill. In 2020, Fauci received
$100,000 as an editor of the publication. In 2019, Fauci also received $100,000
from McGraw Hill for editing the same textbook, and in July 2019, Fauci also
received travel reimbursement of $6,328 for a six-day trip to La Jolla, CA to
attend a board meeting of McGraw Hill, the publisher.
An NIH spokesperson confirmed that
Dr. Fauci has an editorial board position with McGraw Hill that is approved by
NIH. When he receives reimbursements for out-of-pocket travel to attend
meetings, it is on the same basis as other directors.
Background: OpenTheBooks filed a
Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to get a copy of all royalties paid to current
and retired NIH scientists since 2005. When NIH would not release the
information, a federal lawsuit was filed in October with Judicial Watch and
production is scheduled to start on February 1st.
Gifts And Travel Reimbursements:
$13,298
Galas: Fauci and his wife reported
the fair market value of the $8,100 in tickets given to him to attend three
virtual galas. Filers are instructed by Government-wide regulations that the
“market value” of a ticketed event is the ticket’s face value. NIH gave prior
written approval for Dr. Fauci to attend the events.
Here is the breakdown: $5,000 in for
the Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) “Ripple of Hope” gala in December 2020 which also
honored him as an award receipt. $1,600 to attend “An Evening Of Hope” virtual
event in April 2020 and $1,500 to attend a “Prepared For Life” virtual gala in
October 2020.
A spokesperson at NIH confirmed the
details on the gala disclosures.
When Fauci was named Federal Employee
Of The Year at the 2020 Samuael J. Heyman Service To America Medals awards
program he was paid $5,198 for the virtual star-studded event.
Background: Fauci’s FY2021 disclosure
is scheduled for release in May. The disclosure should contain interesting
information. For example, in January 2021, as reported by NPR, Fauci received a $1 million prize
for the prestigious Dan David Prize affiliated with Tel Aviv University for
“speaking truth to power.”
Most likely Fauci kept $900,000 of
that prize with 10-percent awarded to Fauci-picked scholarship winners.
Comment was requested from Dr. Fauci
and NIH and the piece has been updated to provide further context and
background.
Further Reading:
No, Fauci’s Records Aren’t Available. Why Won’t NIH
Immediately Release Them? Published January 12, 2022 | Forbes
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Golden Parachute Will Exceed
$350,000 Per Year – The Largest in U.S. Federal Government History Published
December 28, 2021 | Forbes
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Little Known Biodefense Work.
It’s How He Became The Highest Paid Federal Employee. Published October
20, 2021 | Forbes
Dr. Anthony Fauci: The Highest Paid Employee In The
Entire U.S. Federal Government Published January 21, 2021 |
Forbes
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