Huge news breaking right now on a top Fauci aide and his friend Peter Daszak (EcoHealth Alliance), who @TheNatPulse first reported on in 2020 vis a vis the Wuhan lab.
According to a new guilty plea, Dr. David Morens — an NIAID Fauci aide (2006-2022) — and 2 co-conspirators, agreed to exchange emails about COVID-19’s origins through personal Gmail accounts rather than his official channels, in an attempt to hide federal records.
Daszak, believed to be “co-conspirator 1” in the new guilty plea, sent bottles of wine and offered Michelin-starred meals in DC, NYC, and Paris in exchange for “behind the scenes shenanigans” to hide documents from the public.
Per CBS, co-conspirator 1 sent Morens 2 bottles of wine to his house with a message: “This is the first of what I hope will be a continued series of expressions of gratitude for your advice, support, and behind-the-scenes shenanigans in my battle against your bosses boss, his boss, and the ultimate boss on the hill.”
Daszak’s EcoHealth worked with the Wuhan Lab on bat coronaviruses. He was a multiple-time Hillary Clinton donor, and was dropped from the COVID origins investigations committee after
@TheNatPulse
reporting on his conflicts of interest.
Morens faces up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
More here: https://t.co/rhp5DnFRsC
— Raheem J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) August 18, 2026
— Raheem J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) August 18, 2026
CBS: David Morens, former NIAID adviser, pleads guilty in COVID-19 records scheme
Washington — A former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from a scheme to hide federal records during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under a deal reached with federal prosecutors in Maryland, David Morens, 78, agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit offenses and to defraud the United States. He faces up to five years in prison.
Morens, a senior adviser at NIAID’s Office of the Director from 2006 to 2022, was indicted in April and charged with five counts for what prosecutors said at the time was his role in a scheme to defraud the U.S. by shielding federal records related to the COVID-19 pandemic from the public.
Tim Belevetz, a lawyer for Morens, said, “By pleading guilty today, Dr. Morens has taken responsibility for what he did and will continue to do so.”
Prosecutors said Morens worked with two co-conspirators. The first, “co-conspirator 1,” served as the president and CEO of a New York-based nonprofit that received a grant in 2014 titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, received a subaward from the New York group on the coronavirus grant, prosecutors said, though the National Institutes of Health terminated the award in April 2020 following allegations that COVID-19 emerged from the lab. The NIAID is part of the NIH.