Royalties

Open The Books is a non profit government watchdog organization dedicated to investigating and disclosing the way in which the government spends. Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) they discovered that three top members of NIH received royalty payments from pharmaceutical companies. Dr Fauci received 23 payments, Dr Collings received 14 payments and Dr Lane received 8 payments. The amount of money was deleted (redacted) from the report. However, in our breaking investigation, we found hundreds of millions of dollars in payments also flow to NIH. These are royalty payments from third-party payers (think pharmaceutical companies) back to the NIH and individual NIH scientists.