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Subject: MORENS GUILTY
Public Record We speculated that Moren would enter a plea bargain and turn state’s evidence on his co-conspirators. The fact that co-conspirators werenumbered in his case bodes well for follow-up prosecutions.
JAMES LYONS-WEILER, PHD
AUG 19
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David M. Morens, a former senior adviser in the Office of the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pleaded guilty on August 18, 2026,
in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to Count One: conspiracy to commit offenses against and to defraud the United States, in violation of 18
U.S.C. § 371. The signed plea agreement is unusually informative: it says the conspiracy contemplated violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1519 (destruction, alteration, or
falsification of records in a federal matter), 18 U.S.C. § 2071(a) (concealment, removal, mutilation, or destruction of federal records), and 18 U.S.C. § 201(c) (illegal
gratuities). Morens admitted guilt to the § 371 conspiracy; the government agreed that the remaining open counts would be dismissed at sentencing. [1]
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