Tag: Royalty Payments

Watchdog Finds 69% of NIH Scientists Don’t Report Foreign, China Ties; $350M Secret Royalty Payments | Facts Matter

According to a new report that just came from the government watchdog agency responsible for overseeing the NIH, it turns out that nearly three-quarters of the scientists and researchers who accept NIH grant money—meaning, people who receive NIH tax-payer funding to conduct research—fail to properly report their ties to foreign countries and companies. Specifically, the…


‘Why Don’t You Let Us Know?’ Sen. Paul Presses Fauci on Royalty Payments

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on June 16 pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci on the royalty payments he’s received while working for the federal government. Recently disclosed information showed that Fauci was one of hundreds of scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to receive royalty payments. Fauci got 23 payments between October 2009 and September…


Top People at NIH Getting Big Bucks From Secret Royalty Checks, Probe Reveals

Recipients of secret royalty payments who hold key roles at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) have been revealed by nonprofit government watchdog Open the Books. Through the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Open the Books has discovered that payments totaling more than $134 million were paid to more than 1,600 NIH executives, scientists, and…


Probe Reveals Top People With the NIH Getting Big Bucks From Secret Royalty Checks

Recipients of secret royalty payments in key roles at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) have been revealed by non-profit government watchdog Open the Books. Through the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Open the Books has discovered payments totaling more than $134 million were paid to more than 1,600 NIH executives, scientists and researchers by…


Five GOP Senators Seek Info From NIH Acting Director on Royalty Payments to Feds

Five Republican senators have asked National Institutes of Health (NIH) Acting Director Lawrence Tabak for a comprehensive accounting of every royalty payment by an outside source to an employee of the federal agency since 2009. “We believe that the American taxpayer deserves to know 1) the degree to which government doctors and researchers have a…


Key NIH Research Executive Received 70 Secret Royalty Payments; Colleague Got 7

Two key National Institutes for Health (NIH) executives in positions of influence on decisions about who gets grants from the agency received a total of 77 previously undisclosed royalty payments from outside firms between 2010 and 2014. The secret royalty payments, which were first reported by The Epoch Times, are among thousands estimated to total at…


EXCLUSIVE: Key NIH Research Executive Received 70 Secret Royalty Payments; Colleague Got 7

Two key National Institutes for Health (NIH) executives in positions of influence on decisions about who gets grants from the agency received a total of 77 previously undisclosed royalty payments from outside firms between 2010 and 2014. The secret royalty payments, which were first reported by The Epoch Times, are among thousands estimated to total at…


Facts Matter (May 12): New NIH Director Admits That $350M Secret Royalty Payments Has Appearance of ‘Conflict of Interest’

The current acting director of the NIH was sitting before Congress on Wednesday, when he admitted that the hundreds of millions of dollars in secret royalty payments, going to men like Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins, do have the appearance of a conflict of interest. This comes on the heels of a report…


Acting NIH Director Admits Appearance of Conflict of Interest in Secret Royalty Payments to Fauci, Scientists

Undisclosed royalty payments estimated at $350 million from pharmaceutical and other firms to Dr. Anthony Fauci and hundreds of National Institutes for Health (NIH) scientists do present “an appearance of a conflict of interest,” according to the agency’s acting director. Dr. Lawrence Tabak, who took over as NIH Director following the December 2021 resignation of…