Six months ago, Rochelle Walensky was an unknown professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Mass General Hospital in Boston.

Now she's apparently running the country as the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Infection (CDC). Apparently, she has also raked in a bunch of money from the federal government prior to that appointment through her husband, a bombshell report reveals.

Syndicated radio talk show host Howie Carr told Red State that Walensky's husband Loren Walensky has managed to enrich himself as scientific co-founder and member of the Board of Directors at a company called Lytica Therapeutics, described as "an early-stage biotechnology company working on an innovative platform for developing next-generation antimicrobials."

That became very lucrative for the Walenskys, who became affiliated with the company in October 2019. Only four months later, the company managed to receive a grant in the amount of $16.9 million from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in order to "develop antibacterial peptides with broad activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria."

Information shows that only $5.3 million of that money was initially disbursed to the company, while the remaining $11.6 million is to be disbursed upon the achievement of "certain development milestones."

The writer of the piece, Scott Hounsell, a former political consultant notes that having previously worked in grant writing, most agencies don't give grants to companies or organizations that have existed for less than a year, nor have any other stream of funding.

"In this particular case Crunchbase, which monitors funding for corporations and non-profits, shows that the only funding that Lytica has received to date is the $5.3 million allocated from the grant received," he wrote.