GOP senator investigates EcoHealth over possible taxpayer ‘double-billing’ for work in China

A A Republican senator is investigating whether EcoHealth Alliance double-billed federal agencies during work in China.

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) argued His office led an inquiry into the origins and evolution of COVID-19 this week. It found evidence that EcoHealth had been double-billed. National Institutes of Health The U.S. Agency for International Development For the exact same job in China.

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“Our ongoing investigation follows the money, including U.S. research grants passed through EcoHealth Alliance,” Marshall stated this this week. “The evidence indicates that Peter Daszak may have simultaneously charged NIH and USAID for the same work, which would be fraud.”

“The money trail reveals that EcoHealth Alliance paid for unsupervised gain-of-function research involving dangerous bat coronaviruses at the WIV which could have caused the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Diane Cutler is a former Criminal investigator Marshall is currently the chief investigator in health policy at the Department of Health and Human Services surveillance office. Submitted CBS News this Week “what I have found so far is evidence that points to double billing — potential theft of government funds.”

EcoHealth has released a Long statement This week, in response to the news segment’s assertions, it denied that it had double-billed U.S taxpayers.

“This is simply not true. USAID and NIH supported two different projects that are complementary, but distinct, and do not involve duplication of effort,” EcoHealth stated, “Moreover, “We were told by agency staff that these reviews had occurred for these two lines of funding and that they concluded there was no duplication of effort.”

EcoHealth claims that it has a monopoly on the use of its products. NIH funding “was specifically focused on the discovery and lab characterization of SARS-related coronaviruses in China,” While its USAID funding “was for One Health development and capacity building work to help strengthen China’s capacity to prevent outbreaks and pandemics (and therefore protect the USA from outbreaks that spread).” A report by the Government Accountability Office will be released shortly, according to the group. “will show” That “the total amount of grant funding from NIH and USAID to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for the projects in question from 2014 to 2021 amounted to less than $1.3 million.” The GAO has not provided any comments.

USAID’s Inspector General launched an investigation into EcoHealth and the double-billing claims. According to CBS News.

The spokesperson for USAID told the newspaper Washington Examiner That “we don’t comment on the existence of a specific ongoing investigation.” According to the HHS inspector general’s office, “We can neither confirm nor deny ongoing investigations.”

“Americans deserve the truth, especially if our government had a hand in funding the creation of the coronavirus,” Marshall explained to the Washington Examiner. “I am demanding transparency and accountability for the misuse of taxpayer funds. This probe is a step in the right direction. We must follow the money.”

HHS, NIH and NIH have not responded to comment requests.

Marshall stated this week that the USAID inspector general investigation had prompted Marshall to add: “we will ask the FBI to add their extensive investigative resources to the USAID OIG investigative cadre and prioritize this investigation.” The senator USAID should stop all funding for EcoHealth. “must be examined to determine if their infrastructure can adequately assess and oversee dangerous pathogen collection activities in foreign countries, particularly in China.”

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EcoHealth’s Daszak was an a Long-standing collaborator with the Wuhan laboratory Its. “bat lady” Shi Zhengli is the leader Daszak managed to steer hundreds of thousands of dollars into NIH bat coronavirus funding for the Chinese Institute.

Daszak The lab leak hypothesis has been dismissed In March 2021, he confessed that he believed the Wuhan lab workers. Despite EcoHealth violating NIH rules, and the Wuhan laboratory refusing to give relevant information about its coronavirus research. The NIH still has EcoHealth continues to support its viral work To the tune of many millions of dollars.