# Former NIAID employee indicted for falsifying COVID reports

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [April 28, 2026, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-niaid-employee-indicted-for-falsifying-covid-reports/1029632 "2026-04-28T23:10:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-niaid-employee-indicted-for-falsifying-covid-reports/1029632/18 "2026-05-13T19:15:58Z")

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> [@RitterSport](#):
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> Apparently, he used his personal address to avoid FOIA scrutiny – is that right? I’m not saying that’s the right thing to do, but that’s not faking anything

Yeah this and receiving a bottle of wine from a private contractor who benefited from his work. Which is without exaggerating, the minimum level of corruption every Trump appointee in the government, it is definely true of every DOGE employee.

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