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Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, selected to be Dr. Anthony Fauci’s temporary successor at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spearheaded efforts to broaden the federal agency’s collaborative research with Chinese military-linked scientific institutions that funded controversial bat coronavirus research conducted by the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance.Auchincloss has served as Fauci’s Principal Deputy Director, the second most powerful writhing the $6 billion agency, since 2006.He is also the same aide that Fauci sent panicked emails – obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request – to about the gain of function research occurring in Wuhan in the...

The Securities and Exchange Commission was seeking information from collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX earlier this year, the Prospect has confirmed, bringing a new perspective to an effort by a bipartisan group of congressmembers to slow down that investigation. The March letter from eight House members—four Democrats and four Republicans—questioned the SEC’s authority to make informal inquiries to crypto and blockchain companies, and intimated that the requests violated federal law. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), whom the Republican caucus just elected as majority whip, the number three position in the House GOP leadership, led the letter. In a contemporaneous Twitter thread, Emmer...

Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said Tuesday night she has decided to seek a retraining order against a House Democrat staffer who was captured by Capitol Police on security cameras defacing posters outside her Washington office. Greene told Just the News that she felt like she had no choice but to seek the protective order against Timothy Hysom, the chief of staff to Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Jake Auchincloss, after the U.S. attorney's office in Washington declined a police request to issue an arrest warrant and charge the staffer. "Nancy Pelosi and Democrat leadership don't believe in protecting me. So I...

Case of Rep. Jake Auchincloss’s chief of staff certain to renew debate about dual justice system after same U.S. attorney's office that prosecuted J6 defendant declines the case. Capitol Police caught Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Jake Auchincloss’s chief of staff defacing posters outside the Capitol complex office of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and referred him for criminal charges, but the same U.S. Attorney's office that pursued the Jan. 6 defendants declined to approve an arrest warrant, according to police documents and interviews. Police and Auchincloss also confirmed Monday that the congressman's office was involved in allowing comedian Steven Colbert's production team...

Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) penned an op-ed in The Washington Post on Friday urging the U.S. to continue providing military aid to Ukraine, arguing that the former Soviet Union country is fighting for both its freedom as well as the United States’. The Republican and Democrat said that the Ukrainian military needs to be guaranteed intelligence support, weapons and training amid Russia’s ongoing invasion.

Hugh D. ”Yusha” Auchincloss III, the step-brother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, has died. Auchincloss lived at Hammersmith Farm in Newport, a summer cottage property that the Auchincloss family owned for generations and was the backdrop for John F. Kennedy and Jackie’s storied wedding reception. Auchincloss was the son of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Jr., a stockbroker and lawyer who married Nina Gore, the mother of Gore Vidal; and Janet Lee Bouvier, the mother of Jacqueline Bouvier, who later married the President. A source close to the family confirmed that Auchincloss died over the weekend. He was 87. Auchincloss was 14 when...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ half brother has been indicted on felony charges of possessing child pornography in Oregon. James Auchincloss was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in Medford on 25 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse resulting from the alleged duplication and possession of child pornography.

Onassis half brother accused of having child porn By JEFF BARNARD and WILLIAM McCALL Associated Press Writers AP Photo AP Photo/Jeff Barnard Advertisement Buy AP Photo Reprints Your Questions Answered Ask AP: New cars that don't sell, government czars ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Jamie Auchincloss is well known and well liked in this storybook town for his longtime support of local theater, his videos of Democratic political events, and being the half brother to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. So when authorities announced Tuesday that Auchincloss had been indicted on charges of encouraging child sexual abuse by possessing, duplicating and disseminating child...

Jackie Kennedy's half-brother, who has long lived a quiet existence in a sleepy Oregon suburb, was busted for harboring a sickening kiddie-porn habit, authorities said yesterday. James Auchincloss, 62, whose mother, Janet Bouvier, was also mom to Jackie O, saw his Ashland home searched after local detectives were tipped off. The search turned up booklets and slides of naked 7- to 16-year-old boys in sex poses -- some taken at Auchincloss' home -- according to a police affidavit for a warrant. Investigators believe Auchincloss may have committed felonies by "encouraging child sexual abuse," according to the Ashland Daily Tidings newspaper.

Onassis half-brother facing child porn probe By WILLIAM McCALL Associated Press Writer Published: Thursday, Jun. 4, 2009 PORTLAND, Ore. -- Police in Oregon say they've found graphic child pornography at the home of the half-brother to the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The search at the Ashland home of 62-year-old James Auchincloss occurred in October, according to the Ashland Daily Tidings, which first reported the story. No charges have been filed. Calls by The Associated Press to Auchincloss were not returned. The newspaper said Auchincloss, who has lived in Ashland since 1995 and serves on the board of Oregon Stage Works,...