Fauci’s Household Got $3.5M Wealthier in First Year After Retirement

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Controversial National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci left the federal government as America’s highest paid bureaucrat with a final salary of $480,654. That’s tens of thousands more than the President of the United States, a historic number that triggered a similarly unprecedented pension.

Well, he’s doing even better post-retirement.

Financial disclosures reveal that Fauci and his wife’s combined financial assets kept climbing by more than $3.5 million in 2023, to just over $15 million total. Most of that growth—$3.3 million—came from Fauci’s accounts.

Fauci is married to Dr. Christine Grady, who remained the chief bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health, collecting a taxpayer-funded salary of $263,005 in 2024. At the beginning of April 2025, she and several other NIH employees close to Fauci were fired or reassigned to the Indian Health Service as new HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy reshapes the agency.

And although it’s been universally reported that the so-called “America’s Doctor” retired at the end of 2022, new records obtained by Open the Books reveal that Fauci actually retired on January 6, 2023. Why did Fauci, the NIH, and resultantly, the media, consistently represent that he retired at the end of 2022— even to Congress? What difference does less than a week make?

BACKGROUND

Open the Books first reported that the Fauci-Grady household wealth (at least from the accounts they’re required to disclose), soared during the time of “peak Covid.” Before the pandemic, in January 2019, reported assets stood at $7.6 million. By December 31, 2021, that number had spiked to $12.6 million, even as much of the American economy had been hobbled by draconian lockdown policies.

MONEY MATTERS

Although new financial documents showing Fauci’s financial gains through 2023 do not indicate where or how the money was made, they do reveal some interesting clues. Notably, one of Fauci’s accounts received five large deposits over the course of the year, worth over $1.15 million in total:

  • April 13: $100,000
  • May 1: $100,000
  • June 15: $100,000
  • September 29: $150,000
  • November 30: $700,000

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