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Peter the Poor vs. the World

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1/13 Continuing my earlier thread on Daszak’s $4M “I’m poor now” lawsuit drama: EcoHealth just filed their Motion to Dismiss (NYSCEF Doc. 43, April 2, 2026). It’s brutal. 💥 Here’s what Daszak is actually suing for — and why pages 4–5 of the memo (PDF pp. 9–10) destroy his case.

2/13 Daszak is suing EcoHealth Alliance Inc. + 18 individual board members personally (the entire unpaid volunteer board). Claims: ▶️ Breach of contract (NY common law) ▶️ Age discrimination (NYSHRL + NYCHRL). He claims he was 59 when fired and “other terminated employees were younger.”

3/13 Pages 4–5 (memo pp. 9–10) are devastating. Daszak’s conduct as President/CEO and PI: 👉🏻 Intentionally downplayed China’s role in grant proposals 👉🏻 Applied Chinese biosafety standards instead of U.S. ones 👉🏻 Hid his WIV partnership and “subsidiary work at Wuhan”

4/13 And.. 👉🏻 Falsified mandatory progress reports and public-impact statements 👉🏻 Conducted unapproved gain-of-function research on coronaviruses and lied about it under oath 👉🏻 “Irresponsible steward of American taxpayer money” 👉🏻 Used personal emails to dodge FOIA obligations

5/13 Gov’t’s 5 key factual findings: 1️⃣ Year-end report 2 years late (his “locked out” excuse unsupported) 2️⃣ Failed to report dangerous WIV experiments 3️⃣ Used U.S. funds for unapproved GOF in Wuhan 4️⃣ NIH had to terminate the grant 5️⃣ Omitted that U.S.-funded samples were still at debarred WIV

6/13 Result: 💥May 2024 suspension → Jan 2025 full 5-year debarment of both Daszak personally and EcoHealth. 💥80% of EHA revenue gone → organization dissolved. Daszak himself he laid off “nearly all” staff (many younger) during the probe.

7/13 I had actually warned the board that this was going to happen if they did not fire him, in a letter with the Paris Group in 2021. They did not fire him. It happened. undark.org/2021/11/24/scientists-square-off-over-covid-wuhan-and-peter-daszak/

8/13 Breach-of-contract claim (pp. 9–10): 🤷‍♂️ No contract ever existed. At-will employee. Claim dead. EHA Bylaws say President has a contract “if any” — or board sets terms. None exists. Employee handbook “is not a contract of employment nor is it intended to create contractual obligations.”

9/13 🤡 Age discrimination? Even weaker. Mass layoffs happened because his actions caused the debarment/funding collapse. Anyway the EHA Handbook states that an employee will only be offered severance if 'laid off for non-performance-related reasons".

10/13 Final hammer: Individual board members are immune. Unpaid volunteers of a 501(c)(3). NY Not-For-Profit Corp. Law §720-a (plus MA law + federal Volunteer Protection Act) shields them from suit/liability unless gross negligence or intent to harm — which Daszak doesn’t plead.

11/13 Bottom line: Board didn’t fire him over age. They fired him because his leadership triggered the collapse. 🎯 Anybody would be wise not to touch him with a barge pole, while he keeps whining in the World Socialist Web Site.

12/13 Full motion (NYSCEF 43) is worth reading. Daszak’s “victim” suit just hit the receipts. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/DocumentList?docketId=f2k1F5QQGLY0rTlY1O3wdg==&display=_PLUS_wz3ijQZCjdxjWOiz3sxhw==