A senior leader at the National Institutes of Health has been fired as officials investigate a multi-million-dollar contract with a company that named his wife among potential staff.
NIH Chief Operating Officer Eric Schnabel was escorted out of the agency’s headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, on Monday, The Washington Post reports, citing three anonymous officials with knowledge of the incident. He was hired in April, and his departure was so abrupt that some of his employees still showed up to meetings scheduled with him for Tuesday, only to discover he had been fired, according to the outlet.
