Fauci was already making more than all the other 3 million federal government employees, $456,000 annually, when he retired from the National Institutes of Health in 2023.
But his salary alone cannot come close to accounting for what Open the Books says is a household net worth of $11 million for Fauci and his wife, Christine, an NIH-employed bioethicist.
Gary Bauer, of American Values, says it's how “deep state” Washington operates.
“No matter what, they get rich,” he tells AFN, pointing to wealthy members of Congress as an example.
According to the Open the Books 20-page report on Fauci, it estimates his taxpayer-paid annual pension is $355,000, which is the “largest federal pension in history,” the report states.
Open the Books also says the NIH withheld information about Fauci’s finances and was forced to divulge the information after the watchdog sued over its ignored Freedom of Information request in 2021.
Even then, when the NIH agreed to release the information, it released only about 300 pages from 1,200 pages of finance-related documents.
According to a related New York Post story, Fauci deposited a $5 million check in the bank in 2023 from Penguin Random House for his autobiography “On Call.”
The financial disclosures also show him pocketing smaller monthly payments during that year, a total of $1.1 million in 2023. Those payments likely came from speaking fees he demanded and received, the story says.
