House GOP subpoenas top Fauci aide on use of private email during pandemic

Published April 16, 2024 12:58pm ET



EXCLUSIVE — House Republicans sent a subpoena order Tuesday to the former top aide of Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, regarding his use of his private email address to conduct government business regarding the origins of COVID-19.

The decision to subpoena the official, David Morens, comes following the Friday release of emails by the private research firm EcoHealth Alliance showing that Morens requested for EcoHealth President Peter Daszak to communicate exclusively via Morens’s private Gmail account.

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