Judicial Watch: Records Show Anthony Fauci Received U.S. Marshals Protective Detail after Retirement

Judicial Watch: Records Show Anthony Fauci Received U.S. Marshals Protective Detail after Retirement

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it received 3 pages of heavily redacted records from the U.S. Department of Justice in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that show Dr. Anthony Fauci was provided a U.S. taxpayer-funded protective detail by the U.S. Marshals Service after his retirement in January of 2023.

On January 20, 2023, Fauci retired as President Biden’s chief medical adviser and as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

An April 17, 2023, email from Marshals Service then-Associate Director of Operations Mark Pittella to Director Ronald Davis states that Fauci’s USMS detail is a “reimbursable agreement” that “was agreed upon and paid for” by the Department of Health and Human Services, which is NIAID’s lead agency.

Judicial Watch filed the September 2024 lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Justice Department failed to provide records requested in a June 2024 FOIA request (Judicial Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice (1:24-cv-02606)). Judicial Watch is asking for:

All records, including emails, email chains, email attachments, correspondence, memoranda, statements, reports, agreements, expenditures, invoices, reimbursements, expense reports, briefings, or other form of record, regarding government funds spent on USMS [U.S. Marshals Service] protection of Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH). This request also includes any requests or authorizations to initiate USMS protection of Dr. Fauci.

The U.S. Marshals Service is the enforcement and security arm of the U.S. federal judiciary.

In July 2023 it was reported that Fauci was “receiving [a] government-funded security detail despite his alleged retirement.” And while HHS reportedly“was set ended its protection of Fauci,” it was discovered that the U.S. Marshals had assumed protective responsibilities on January 5, 2023.

Open The Books reported on November 7, 2024, that Fauci received $15 million in taxpayer-funded security services after his retirement. The security detail began on January 4, 2023, and ran through September 20, 2024.

In an April 17, 2023, email, Pittella writes:

I asked some specific questions of JSD [Judicial Security Division] related to the chart they provided earlier today regarding our protection details and the number of personnel. Please let me know if you would like additional information regarding the numbers provided to each of the details. Thank you and have a nice evening. 

1. If [redacted] and Dr. Fauci all have full portal to portal details, why [redacted]

1.[Redacted]

2. However, the actual number that makes up the detail depends [redacted]. While we would like to remain consistent on the details, the number of personnel we are able to assign [redacted].

3. For Fauci, the number of deputies requested at the time of the HHS [Health and Human Services] reimbursable agreement was [redacted]. This request was based on [redacted]. Since Fauci is a reimbursable agreement, the request for [redacted] deputies was agreed upon and paid for by HHS. JSD [Judicial Security Division] requested [redacted] to ensure the agency was funded for the appropriate number [redacted].

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4. The number of deputies proposed for the Director’s detail is [redacted]. Currently, there are [redacted] assigned to his protection detail’ totaling [redacted]. With no changes to the posture, the total number assigned to fully staff the detail would be [redacted] personnel. With the Director’s request to [redacted] it has been proposed that the Director’s detail be staffed-up [redacted] personnel. Because this detail is staffed by JSD personnel, JSD would prefer to [redacted].

2. [Redacted]

1. [Redacted]

2. [Redacted]

3.      [Redacted] only has DUSMs [Marshals] assigned to his detail. Is that enough DUSMs to properly provide security?”

1. Yes, [redacted]

2. This is the recommended number of personnel for this detail type based on JSDs protective detail model….

4.      Overall there is disparity among the details with similar levels of protection, as it pertains to DUSMs assigned to each of those details? Why?”

1. The disparity is that we are not staffing the special details permanently.”

2. [Redacted]

3. This is what causes the disparity in numbers.

4. While JSD attempts to equally use resources so that each detail has a similar security posture across the board, without permanent personnel assigned, the numbers will continue to fluctuate.

“Fauci seems to have received the type of security reserved for a former president of the United States at obviously great expense.,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

President Trump reportedly ended Fauci’s security detail. He stated to reporters in North Carolina on Friday: “When you work for government, at some point your security detail comes off. And you know, you can’t have them forever. So, I think it’s very standard,”

Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuits and investigations have uncovered much of what the public knows about many Fauci and his former agency and the Covid-19 controversies:

• In July 2024, Judicial sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for records of Fauci, various top officials, grantees, and contractors regarding efforts to subvert FOIA and other information requests about Covid issues.
• In June 2024, Judicial Watch sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for records from the Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) regarding after action reports, review of procedures, or studies concerning the preparation for and response to the Covid-19 pandemic
• In April 2024, Judicial Watch uncovered FBI records that showed an April 2020 email exchange with several officials in the bureau’s Newark Field Office referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China as including “gain-of-function research” which “would leave no signature of purposeful human manipulation.”
• Emails between U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and top Facebook executives in 2021 regarding the censorship of user posts about Covid controversies showed Facebook leadership seeking to “better understand the scope of what the White House expects from us on misinformation going forward.”
• Records from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) showed that a Pfizer study surveyed 23 people in 2021 to gauge reactions to its Covid vaccine booster before asking the FDA to approve it.
• Records from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) included the initial grant application and annual reports to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from EcoHealth Alliance, describing the aim of its work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to create mutant viruses “to better predict the capacity of our CoVs [coronaviruses] to infect people.”
• HHS records included emails of then-Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Francis Collins showing a British physicians’ group recommended the use of Ivermectin to prevent and treat Covid-19.
• Heavily redacted HHS records showed that just two days prior to FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine a discussion was held between U.S. and UK health regulators regarding the Covid shot and “anaphylaxis,” with the regulators emphasizing their “mutual confidentiality agreement.”
• Judicial Watch obtained HHS records regarding data Moderna submitted to the FDA on its mRNA Covid-19 vaccine, which indicated a “statistically significant” number of rats were born with skeletal deformations after their mothers were injected with the vaccine. The documents also revealed Moderna elected not to conduct a number of standard pharmacological studies on the laboratory test animals.
• Heavily redacted records from the FDA regarding the Covid-19 booster vaccine detailed pressure on Covid booster use and approval.
• HHS records detailed internal discussions about myocarditis and the Covid vaccine. Other documents detailed adverse “events for which a contributory effect of the vaccine could not be excluded.”
• Judicial Watch uncovered HHS records detailing the extensive media plans for a Biden administration propaganda campaign to push the Covid-19 vaccine.
• HHS records revealed previously redacted locations of Covid-19 vaccine testing facilities in Shanghai, China. The FDA had claimed the name and location of the testing facilities were protected by the confidential commercial information exemption of the FOIA.
• NIH records showed an FBI “inquiry” into the NIH’s controversial bat coronavirus grant tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The records also showed National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) officials were concerned about “gain-of-function” research in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2016. The Fauci agency was also concerned about EcoHealth Alliance’s lack of compliance with reporting rules and use of gain-of-function research in the NIH-funded research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China.
• Texas Public Information Act (PIA) records showed the former director of the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Dr. James W. Le Duc, warned Chinese researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology of potential investigations into the Covid issue by Congress.
• HHS records regarding biodistribution studies and related data for the Covid-19 vaccines showed how a key component of the vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech, lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), were found outside the injection site, mainly the liver, adrenal glands, spleen and ovaries of test animals, eight to 48 hours after injection.
• Records obtained from HHS through a FOIA lawsuit related to hydroxychloroquine and Covid-19 revealed that a grant to EcoHealth Alliance was cancelled because of press reports that a portion of the grant was given to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
• HHS records revealed that from 2014 to 2019, $826,277 was given to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research by the NIAID.
• NIAID records showed that it gave nine China-related grants to EcoHealth Alliance to research coronavirus emergence in bats and was the NIH’s top issuer of grants to the Wuhan lab itself. The records also included an email from the vice director of the Wuhan Lab asking an NIH official for help finding disinfectants for decontamination of airtight suits and indoor surfaces.
• HHS records included an “urgent for Dr. Fauci” email chain, citing ties between the Wuhan lab and the taxpayer-funded EcoHealth Alliance. The government emails also reported that the foundation of U.S. billionaire Bill Gates worked closely with the Chinese government to pave the way for Chinese-produced medications to be sold outside China and help “raise China’s voice of governance by placing representatives from China on important international counsels as high level commitment from China.”
• Judicial Watch’s four-part documentary regarding the coordinated effort by the government and Big Tech to censor and suppress information on topics such as Hunter Biden’s laptop, Covid-19, and election debates is available here.

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