Fauci's wealth doubled to $15 MILLION as Americans faced lockdowns, job loss during pandemic

Dr. Anthony Fauci's personal fortune boomed during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to newly released records, reports the New York Post. While Americans were forced to endure lockdowns, job losses, school closures, Fauci’s net worth doubled—from about $7.6 million in early 2019 to nearly $15 million by the end of 2023.

The financial details come from 141 pages of disclosure forms obtained by the watchdog group Open the Books, which showed that Fauci, 84, made more than $3.5 million in 2023 alone—his first year in retirement.

Before leaving his post, Fauci had the highest salary of any government bureaucrat, taking home $480,654 in his final year of service. Though he had stated in congressional testimony that he stepped down at the end of 2022, records show his final separation date was actually January 6, 2023.

“I came back to the NIH in 1972, and I started off as a senior investigator to a section head in one of the labs to the chief of the laboratory of immunoregulation in 1980, a position I held until I stepped down at the end of 2022,” he told the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic last year.