NIH Officials Ignore FOIA Request for Details of Fauci’s Wife’s Health Agency Job

Open the Books is suing in federal court, seeking to force the National Institutes for Health (NIH) to comply with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by providing employment and compensation details for Christine Grady, the agency’s chief bioethicist and the wife of Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Open the Books is a Chicago-based non-profit government watchdog that is the nation’s largest private repository of information on public sector spending of all kinds at all levels of government.

The foundation has filed thousands of FOIA requests and obtained data on more than $6 trillion in federal spending, the official checks of 49 of the 50 states, and the pay and pension information for 25 million government workers.

Grady is listed on the NIH website as “Senior Investigator” and “Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.” Her title is currently listed by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as “Social Science” with a pay level of $238,970, according to data compiled by Open the Books. The current top pay rate for federal government Executive Level officials is $226,300.

Grady’s husband, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is director of the NIH’s National Institutes for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden.

Fauci receives $456,028 in annual salary compensation, making him the highest paid employee on the federal payroll. His salary exceeds those of the President, the Vice-President, the heads of federal departments, senators and representatives, and Justices of the Supreme Court.

Open the Books filed its April 8 FOIA that it was seeking “all employment contracts, modifications, and addendums” for Grady since her promotion to her present position. The FOIA also requested “all confidentiality agreements/documents, conflicts of interest waivers or documents, ethics disclosures, and financial interest and/or economic interest disclosure documents.”

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