Five Counts Down, the Rest of the Cabal to Go: The Morens Indictment Is Just the Start

Five Counts Down, the Rest of the Cabal to Go: The Morens Indictment Is Just the Start

From The Paul Truesdell Podcast by Paul Grant Truesdell, JD., AIF, CLU, ChFC

May 23, 2026 · 28 min

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The episode discusses the indictment of David Morens and the implications of his actions during a global pandemic.

562 Podcast # Five Counts Down, the Rest of the Cabal to Go: The Morens Indictment Is Just the Start The Justice Department finally indicted someone. One person. A 78-year-old senior adviser, two years past retirement. On April 28, 2026, a federal grand jury in Maryland charged him with five crimes: conspiracy against the United States, destroying federal records, falsifying records during a federal investigation, hiding records, and helping others do the same.[^1] The law allows up to 20 years in prison for each falsification count.[^1] Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called it a "profound abuse of trust" during a global pandemic.[^1] He is right. The problem is that David Morens did not do this by himself. The people above him — the ones he reported to, the ones whose careers his lies protected, the ones who built a workplace where a senior NIH adviser could write down a plan to hide emails and send it from his government phone — those people walked out the door with paper in their pockets that says they don't have to answer for any of it. ## The Charges, in Plain English For 16 years, Morens sat inside NIAID's Office of the Director. He advised the man who, for those 16…

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