News - Middle East: A veteran American journalist and a contributor to Forbes claims that he was sacked from the magazine for exposing financial dealings of the top US infectious diseases expert and White House chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Adam Andrzejewski, who worked with Forbes for the last eight years, was shown the exit door over his investigative reporting on Fauci, including a report on his staggering $350,000 retirement package.

“Clearly, Forbes editors didn’t want our oversight of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s finances” Andrzejewski, who is also the CEO and founder of the website OpenTheBooks.com, said in a TV interview on Monday.

Fauci, the chief medical advisor (CMA) to the US president and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shot to prominence after the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic.

The journalist said six top executives at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had sent him an email with complaints over his coverage on Fauci.

“It was couched as a corrections email, but the corrections – there [were] basically no substantial corrections – and they quibbled about small things in my column,
The letter became “the excuse that Forbes used to cancel the column.” He said his pieces on the top US health expert and US President Joe Biden’s advisor were “tip of the spear”.

In his columns, Andrzejewski revealed that Fauci was the highest-paid government employee in 2019, making $456,000 annually, which is more than Biden, who gets $400,000 per year.