Fauci accused of lying to Congress, using private email with ‘Beaglegate’ journalist

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From the New York Post: A watchdog group is accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci of having lied to Congress last month when he claimed he never used private email to conduct official business, pointing to newly obtained records on the “Beaglegate” scandal – though his attorney has denied all wrongdoing.

Fauci, 83, told a journalist in October 2021 that he would reach out to them through his private email address during a public-relations firestorm over research being conducted on beagle puppies by his National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,FOIA records obtained by the White Coat Waste Project and exclusively shared with The Post show.

The controversial agency-funded research included the tormenting and killing of beagle puppies in Tunisia to learn more about a parasitic disease. The NIAID initially denied involvement but Fauci confirmed this year that his agency indeed approved the grants for the experiments.

“I will send you an e-mail via my gmail account,” Fauci said in an email dated Oct. 29, 2021 to Washington Post reporter Yasmeen Abutaleb, who had expressed sympathy about the spate of “crazy articles” that were surfacing about the NIAID head.


In a hearing on June 3, Fauci told Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), “I do not do government business on my private email.”

The report quotes David Schertler, an attorney for Fauci, as saying, “The email to which you refer involved a personal matter and not a matter related to government business… For that reason, Dr. Fauci used his personal email account to communicate about the matter.”

White Coat Waste Project founder and president Anthony Bellotti told The NY Post, “We’ve followed the money and exposed how Fauci lied under oath about not funding gain-of-function at the Wuhan animal lab, that he lied about not bankrolling beagle torture in Tunisia, and, now, that he broke federal law by using his personal email to evade FOIA requests about Beaglegate and secretly communicate with a Washington Post reporter who then published NIH disinformation to protect him and discredit us.”

“Fauci’s the poster child for government corruption and Congress needs to hold him accountable for his abuses, which carry criminal penalties including fines and jail time,” Bellotti added.

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