By Mark Tapscott

Open the Books is suing in federal court, seeking to force the National Institutes for Health (NIH) to comply with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by providing employment and compensation details for Christine Grady, the agency’s chief bioethicist and the wife of Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Open the Books is a Chicago-based non-profit government watchdog that is the nation’s largest private repository of information on public sector spending of all kinds at all levels of government.

The foundation has filed thousands of FOIA requests and obtained data on more than $6 trillion in federal spending, the official checks of 49 of the 50 states, and the pay and pension information for 25 million government workers.