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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Fauci's Net Worth Soared to $12.6 Million During Pandemic
[CHD] OpenTheBooks [dot] com today posted more of the financial disclosures that Dr. Anthony Fauci "didn’t want you to see," including how Fauci’s net worth jumped to $12.6 million between 2019 through 2021 — an increase of $5 million.

Last night, our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com received Dr. Anthony Fauci’s FY2021 financial disclosures from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The documents contain a wealth of previously unknown information. For example, the Fauci household’s net worth now exceeds $12.6 million — up $5 million from 2019 through 2021.

In January 2022, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall (R.-K.S.) forced open Fauci’s unredacted FY2019 and 2020 financial disclosures. The release followed a heated senate exchange between Fauci and Marshall that concluded with Fauci calling the senator a "moron."

It was Fauci’s "code red moment" when America’s "top doctor" melted down on national television in the Senate hearing. (When Marshall cited "Forbes," that was our research on Fauci’s financials published in my then-column at Forbes.)

It’s been a dogfight to open the books on the Fauci finances. For example, our organization has filed four federal lawsuits versus NIH to open the books.

Today, we post more of the financial disclosures that Fauci didn’t want you to see.

Here’s a summary of our findings from the latest document release:

  • Net worth: The Fauci household disclosed net worth increased from $7.6 million (Jan. 1, 2019) to more than $12.6 million (Dec. 31, 2021).

  • Top paid: Fauci continued to be the most highly compensated federal employee earning $456,000 in 2021 and $480,000 in 2022. Fauci out-earned the president, four-star generals and roughly 4.3 million other federal bureaucrats.

  • Big awards: In 2021, Fauci augmented his government income with nearly $1 million in prizes from non-profit organizations across the world. For example, the Dan David Foundation, based in Israel, awarded $901,400 for "speaking truth to power" and "defending science" during the Trump administration.

During the ongoing pandemic year of 2021, the Fauci’s household income, perks and benefits and unrealized investment gains totaled $2,832,876 — including federal income and benefits of $903,497, outside royalties and travel perks totaling $919,205, and $910,174 in investment gains.

Here are the numbers as compiled by our auditors at OpenTheBooks [dot] com, an organization I lead. This analysis uses information we previously unearthed plus the newly released disclosures.

INVESTMENT GAINS: $910,174
Disclosures show $910,174 in gains within the Fauci stock, bond and money market portfolio during 2021 — in 2020, the portfolio gained $794,369. The total value of Fauci’s investment account was $10,271,626 and his wife’s investments totaled another $2,405,887, as of Dec. 31, 2021.

These funds were held in a mix of trust, retirement and college education accounts. Fauci has an IRA worth $706,219 (up $67,700), a defined benefit brokerage account totaling $2,551,210 (up $147,688) and a revocable trust worth $7,014,197 (up $1,718,299).

His wife’s revocable trust is worth $2,269,225 (up $306,406) and an IRA totaling $136,662 (up $16,385).

The disclosures show that he’s invested in fairly broadly targeted mutual funds, with no reported holdings of individual stocks. The Faucis deposited an additional net $1,346,304 in savings during this period.

Fauci’s 2021 disclosures show that he continues with an ownership stake in a San Francisco restaurant, Jackson Fillmore, worth between $1,000 and $15,000: but received minimal income from the restaurant.

GIFTS AND AWARDS: $919,205
In January 2021, Fauci received a $1 million prize for the prestigious Dan David Prize affiliated with Tel Aviv University for "speaking truth to power" and "defending science" during the Trump administration. Disclosures show that Fauci kept $901,400 of that prize with roughly 10% awarded to handpicked scholarship winners.

Fauci also collected awards of $12,500 from the Eliot Richardson Prize in Public Service on July 31, 2021, and the Abelson Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Feb. 8, 2021.

Two years ago, Fauci was named Federal Employee of the Year at the 2020 Samuel J. Heyman Service To America Medals awards program and he was paid $5,198 for the virtual star-studded event.

FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION: $694,998....
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/29/2022 16:35 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Vice President Kamala Harris commends US alliance with 'Republic of North Korea' in DMZ speech gaffe

Campaigning
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/29/2022 08:55 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


#2 

Seriously.
Who in hell's 1/2 acre is running the Federal Gov? Surely it is NOT mindless Joe, or BJ Harris.

WHO !!
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/29/2022 20:54 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband files for divorce
[NewsChannel9] District 14 Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband, Perry Greene, filed for divorce in Floyd County Superior Court on Wednesday saying that the marriage is “irretrievably broken," the Rome News-Tribune reports.

He motioned to have the divorce filed under seal.

When contacted by Rome News-Tribune Wednesday evening, Marjorie Greene released a statement:

“Marriage is a wonderful thing and I’m a firm believer in it. Our society is formed by a husband and wife creating a family to nurture and protect. Together, Perry and I formed our family and raised three great kids. He gave me the best job title you can ever earn: Mom. I’ll always be grateful for how great of a dad he is to our children. This is a private and personal matter and I ask that the media respect our privacy at this time.”

Perry Greene also released a statement:

"Marjorie has been my best friend for the last 29 years and she has been an amazing mom! Our family is our most important thing we have done. As we go on different paths we will continue to focus on our 3 incredible kids and their future endeavors and our friendship," he wrote.
Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert || 09/29/2022 07:32 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shooting hogs from the copter sent a message?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2022 19:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Soon to be investigated by the Jan 6th Subcommittee
Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2022 19:07 Comments || Top||


Europe
Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Meloni, telling the world what she really thinks of French President Macron.
[Twitter-video]


She's also a member of the Aspen Institute

Posted by: 3dc || 09/29/2022 06:38 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes please.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/29/2022 10:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow. In theory, you should be hearing much of this from the left. But...
Posted by: Secret Master || 09/29/2022 10:58 Comments || Top||

#3  I think I'm in love.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/29/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||

#4  I would never have expected this from Italy, she is fierce and fearless. Macron will need to re calibrate how he quips without thinking, and the Niger riposte was surprisingly effective.

How long will she last is the important question? The DGSE (Directorate-General for External Security – Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure) file on her just got a whole new level of focus!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/29/2022 13:27 Comments || Top||

#5  French leaders have a history of snide remarks the call 'witticism'
Posted by: magpie || 09/29/2022 13:48 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ PIMF. ...they call
Posted by: magpie || 09/29/2022 13:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Treasury's Yellen is not part of post-midterm transition plans, White House says
[Washington Examiner] Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and White House economic adviser Brian Deese are not part of a planned shake-up after the November elections, the White House said.

President Joe Biden’s press secretary told reporters that while the White House is planning for transitions, the post-midterm reorganization does not include the two economic advisers.

"Neither Secretary Yellen or Brian Deese are part of those plans," Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Wednesday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/29/2022 05:52 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Many were hoping she was 'transitory.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/29/2022 5:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Cabbage Patch Kid Karine Jean-Pierre shouldn't get too comfortable...
Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2022 7:07 Comments || Top||

#3 

What if the voting machines and Dead can't muster up enough votes this midterm?

Will the Biden Junta even have any say in who gets accepted? Provide he doesn't get slapped with the 25th or impeached?

Besides, if the Conservatively held congress, honestly investigates the 2020 Election Fraud, and Treason & Sedition charges are brought. What will the DC Swamp various agencies heads and supervisors look alike with all the new faces?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/29/2022 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 The brain trust has a back-up plan. If things start going the wrong way, whatever nightmare scenario that could entail, they'll simply redirect the trail of bread crumbs and Brandon wanders off.
Posted by: Cesare || 09/29/2022 10:53 Comments || Top||

#5  She's gone after the mid-terms. No doubt about it.
Posted by: Fester Clegum9283 || 09/29/2022 11:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Odds she found out about this via this Washington Examiner article?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2022 15:33 Comments || Top||

#7  The WH statement is probably intentionally ambiguous.

It could mean "Yellen and Deese are safe from being transitioned out" or

it could mean "Yellen and Deese will not be part of admin post midterm"

so it essentially says "hey big donors and policy influencers - do you want us to get rid of these two?"
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/29/2022 19:47 Comments || Top||


Biden keeps US target for refugee admissions at 125,000
[ArianaNews] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan...
on Tuesday kept the nation’s cap on refugee admissions at 125,000 for the 2023 budget year, despite pressure from advocates to raise it even higher to meet the need after falling far short of that target this year.

Refugees advocates have been pushing the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
to do more to restore the US Refugee Admissions Program, News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.

The more than four-decade-old program suffered deep cuts under the Trump administration, which slashed admissions to a record low of 15,000.

Biden raised the cap to four times that amount, but so far fewer than 20,000 refugees have been admitted this budget year, which ends September 30, AP reported.

That number excludes the roughly 180,000 Ukrainians and Afghans who came to the United States via a legal process called humanitarian parole that got them into the country more quickly than the traditional refugee program but only allows for stays of up to two years.

Refugees are provided a path to permanent residency. Their admissions are determined by the president each year, and federal funding for resettlement agencies is based on the number of people they resettle in a given year.

The 125,000 target "is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest," Biden stated in his presidential determination.

Biden earmarked 5,000 more slots for people from Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and Central Asia for the 2023 budget year, making room to accommodate those fleeing the war in Ukraine.

The largest number of slots — 40,000 — was set aside for refugees from Africa, followed by 35,000 from South Asia and 15,000 each from East Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2022 01:06 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

125,000???
At what, per hour or per day?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/29/2022 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought he put a zero at the end of that number.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/29/2022 11:54 Comments || Top||

#3  So we've fulfilled our annual quota through the year 2095? And people complain that Biden doesn't get things done. He has far exceeded expectations here.
Posted by: Tom || 09/29/2022 14:34 Comments || Top||


Biden searched out dead lawmaker because she was 'top of mind', White House claims
[NYPOST] President Biden thought the late Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) was alive Wednesday because she was "top of mind" for him as he prepares to meet her family Friday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed to the incredulity of the press corps.

The Biden administration’s regular briefing later devolved into chaos as news hounds pressed Jean-Pierre to address the 79-year-old president’s mental health.

Biden made the gaffe earlier Wednesday at a nutrition event in Washington, saying, "Jackie — are you here? Where’s Jackie?" despite the fact that he publicly mourned Walorski’s death in a car crash last month — and even lowered the White House’s flags for two days in her memory.

Jean-Pierre gave almost identical answers when asked about the stunning remark by news hounds from ABC, CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
, CBS and the Washington Post.

The questions grew increasingly pointed as the press secretary said nine times that Walorski was simply "top of mind" for Biden — without saying why the president thought she was alive.

Steven Portnoy of CBS News Radio — the third news hound to raise the topic after ABC’s Cecilia Vega and CNN’s Phil Mattingly — asked Jean-Pierre, "Was the president confused? Was something written in the teleprompter that he didn’t recognize?"

"I’m trying to find out what happened here," Portnoy added.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Put in a frighting perspective.

Remember, he has a finger, and he has access to the GTW button.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/29/2022 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ You don't really believe they'd let him have that, do you?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/29/2022 11:55 Comments || Top||

#3  The thought that Kamal and Biden could 'concur' for Weapons Release is chilling...
Posted by: magpie || 09/29/2022 13:36 Comments || Top||

#4  The Puppet Show is morphing into the Clown Show in the MSM as they prepare for the looming end to the Pantomime Presidency of the Magic Kenyan's Sock Puppet.

Given the Cackle-Jackal double gaff of this week, how the incoming Congress plans to dump the dynamic-duo will be a tour-de-force in Calvin-ball politics. It would be amusing as a farce if it wasn't actually reality.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/29/2022 13:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Gavin Newsome is running for President. Both he and Joe Biden will have to carry mirrors. Gavin so he can admire himself and Biden to see if he is still breathing.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 09/29/2022 13:45 Comments || Top||


#7  "I sniff dead people."

How frustrating for the bereaved.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/29/2022 14:49 Comments || Top||

#8  😸
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/29/2022 14:52 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2022-09-29
  Mobilised Russians call hotline to ask how to surrender
Wed 2022-09-28
  Donbass referendums' results revealed, blank ballots seen counted: Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporozhye all choose Russia
Tue 2022-09-27
  Hundreds of Russian vehicles, weapon systems seized during Kharkiv counterattack
Mon 2022-09-26
  Head of Russian Orthodox Church says sacrificing life in war against Ukraine ‘washes away sins.’
Sun 2022-09-25
  Russian authorities detain more than 700 people at protests against partial mobilization
Sat 2022-09-24
  Four Ukraine regions controlled by Russia and pro-Moscow forces have started door to door referendums on Friday on joining Russia
Fri 2022-09-23
  31 killed in Iran protests, as people torch cop shoppes
Thu 2022-09-22
  Man admits to having murdered a teenager for being a Republican
Wed 2022-09-21
  Putin Orders Partial Military Mobilization Amid Setbacks In Ukraine, Warns West 'It's Not A Bluff
Tue 2022-09-20
  New protests in Iran over woman's death after morality police arrest, 5 protesters said killed
Mon 2022-09-19
  ''Kupiansk has surrendered. The enemy is on the left bank of the Oskil:'' pro-Russian military blogger
Sun 2022-09-18
  Former Guantanamo guest is injured in Panjshir war
Sat 2022-09-17
  400 militants of ISIS deployed to north of Afghanistan - CSTO
Fri 2022-09-16
  Tajikistan is trying to seize the territory of Kyrgyzstan
Thu 2022-09-15
  1 Tajikistan border guard killed after Kyrgyz, Tajik border guards exchange fire due to border dispute


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