Florida Lawyers Want Fauci Put on Trial

A Florida lawyers group is seeking the prosecution of Dr. Anthony Fauci for alleged crimes related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Murder, terrorism, and a host of abuses have been committed," the Vires Law Group said in a press release issued last week that calls for an investigation by Florida's attorney general.

Earlier this month, the National American Renaissance Movement submitted a grand jury petition to the Florida attorney general's office requesting an investigation into Fauci and several others for alleged crimes connected to the COVID-19 pandemic and coronavirus vaccination.

The petition accuses Fauci and others of fraud, domestic terrorism, murder, biological weapons violations, official and corporate misconduct, treason and crimes against humanity.

In its release, the Vires Law Group said, "On October 24, 2023, a request for a criminal investigation, particularly regarding the crime of Second Degree Murder while Committing Acts of Terrorism by Anthony Fauci and several other high-level federal officials, as well as Administrators of hospital systems providing care to patients in Florida, ("Accused") was filed with the Attorney General of the State of Florida."

Over the past several months, Republicans have targeted Fauci, who was chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a frequent media presence during the pandemic. Considered the nation's top expert on infectious diseases, he was often interviewed during the health crisis.

Last month, the GOP-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic accused Fauci of meeting with members of the CIA to discuss the origins of COVID-19. Republican Senator Rand Paul recently promised "bombshell revelations" relating to Fauci, as well as information concerning the so-called lab-leak theory about the origins of the COVID-19 virus.

During a recent interview on Fox Business in which he spoke about his new book about Fauci and the origins of COVID-19, Paul said: "We now have emails that show [Fauci] saying that he knows it was gain-of-function, that the virus looked manipulated, and that he was worried that this came from the Wuhan lab...February 1, 2020, then he spent the last three years saying 'nothing to see here.'

"We also know that there was a safety committee that should have reviewed this, and we know that Anthony Fauci went around the safety committee," Paul said.

Newsweek reached out to Fauci for comment via email.

In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis has been critical of Fauci in recent months as he campaigns for the GOP's presidential nomination.

In May, DeSantis said, "I think [Trump] did great for three years, but when he turned the country over to Fauci in March of 2020 that destroyed millions of people's lives."

During a recent campaign event, DeSantis said about Fauci: "If you are faced with a destructive bureaucrat in your midst like a Fauci, you do not empower somebody like Fauci. You bring him into the office and you tell him to pack his bags: 'You are fired.'"

The Vires Law Group provided Newsweek with a document titled "Brief in Support of Request for Criminal Investigation and Prosecution," which detailed the reasons why Fauci and others should be held accountable for alleged crimes related to the pandemic.

"Beginning in 2020, several individuals, most of whom were high ranking in the American government and federal agencies, enacted a campaign directly or indirectly to cause the abuse and deaths of Florida's citizens, in particular citizens over 60 years of age," the document says.

It goes on: "While we understand state criminal prosecution may not [be] the typical vehicle through which the crimes committed by these Accused would be investigated and prosecuted, we know that the State of Florida stands with Florida victims and their families and will make the truth known and bring accountability and justice.

"As residents of the State of Florida, and constituents of Attorney General Ashley Moody, we respectfully request that the Office thoroughly investigate the evidence presented herein," the document says.

"Presuming sufficient evidence," the lawyers are asking that Moody's office seek indictment and prosecution under Florida criminal law of Anthony Fauci, Cliff Lane, Francis Collins, Deborah Birx, Rochelle Walensky, Stephen Hahn and Florida health care and hospital system administrators—"including but not limited to AdventHealth and any other appropriate defendants"—for alleged crimes against Floridians, "particularly the vulnerable elderly and disabled."

Newsweek reached out to Moody's office via email for comment.