Three state attorneys general have subpoenaed Anthony Fauci to produce records on the grants, book deals, and board positions he chased while his guidance shuttered churches, closed businesses, and separated families across America — the first real legal push to hold the most powerful unelected official in modern history to account for the damage he wrought.
Florida AG James Uthmeier, joined by West Virginia's John McCuskey and Louisiana's Liz Murrill, issued an investigative subpoena demanding Fauci turn over documents by August 31 related to what Uthmeier called "self-dealing" from January 3, 2020, through the present. The scope is sweeping: grants, awards, book deals, interactions with businesses and media about Covid recommendations, and — critically — documents on "vaccine efficacy and boosters, natural immunity, potential adverse events including myocarditis risks, messaging strategies, and communications with vaccine manufacturers."
"Government officials have a certain level of immunity in their official capacities, but if Fauci personally profited off of the 'guidance' he issued, that very well could have broken Florida law," Uthmeier said.
The state-level action runs parallel to an escalating Senate investigation. Fox News confirmed that the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson, has obtained a forensic copy of Fauci's pandemic-era iPhone from the Department of Health and Human Services. Breitbart reported that Johnson and Sen. Rand Paul have also obtained millions of pages from federal databases related to Fauci and are seeking more.
The phone transfer came after HHS dumped more than 1,000 pages of Fauci's personal diary entries to Congress — entries Uthmeier says show Fauci was focused on "self-promotion" while Americans were "being deceived and harmed by his misrepresentations." The journals, written on government-owned devices during his tenure as NIAID director, detail what Uthmeier described as "substantial awards" linked to his public recommendations.
Fauci has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. At a Senate hearing last week, he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times rather than answer questions about the pandemic response and the origins of the virus. "Under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions," Fauci told the committee. McCuskey called the refusal "concerning."
NBC News framed the subpoena as an allegation that Fauci "profited" — using scare quotes around the word — and noted only that Fauci has "faced renewed scrutiny." Fox and Breitbart both reported the Fifth Amendment invocation in their headlines; NBC buried it mid-story. Breitbart alone noted that former President Biden granted Fauci a preemptive pardon before leaving office — a detail the other two outlets omitted. Paul has publicly questioned whether that pardon "offers you complete immunity."
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is expected to vote Thursday on whether to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress. The resolution is expected to pass the Republican-led panel. Breitbart reported that at least four Republican-led states have now opened separate investigations into Fauci.
Meanwhile, the device records now sit under the authority of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long accused Fauci of shielding the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of individual freedoms.
The question hanging over all of this is the same one Americans have been asking since the lockdowns ended: whether the man who shaped the policies that upended millions of lives will ever face consequences — or whether institutional protection, a preemptive pardon, and a wall of silence will be enough to make the whole thing disappear.
