Petrelis Files

Dear Friends:

AIDS researcher Dr. David M. Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center for the City of New York, has been back in the new this past week, after a strain of drug-resistant HIV was discovered in New York.

As is my habit with policy makers in the public eye, I checked for information related to Ho on sites dedicated to public documents, such as IRS 990 forms for tax exempt groups, phone numbers and political donations and what I found is shared here.

The figures on Ho's compensation package with the Aaron Diamond facility come from the center's IRS filings.

There is no breakdown provided in the IRS 990 of the government agencies that awarded grants to the center, as the IRS allows exempt organizations to withhold that data.

But I sure would like to know if the grants were only from federal sources, or, if the New York City government may have also awarded any contracts and funds to the center. Because including such information is not required by the IRS, I've contacted the center and asked them to provide me with some answers, which I hope they will do in the interests of scientific transparency.

You'll see below that Ho made no contributions to federal candidates or PACs, according to Federal Election Commission records on file with www.tray.com.

However, since I did come across donations from other researchers at the Aaron Diamond center, I've included them in this post.

Michael Petrelis
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http://www.guidestar.org/

Dr. David Ho's compensation:

1999
$274,000

2000
$315,769

2001
$311,943

2002
$321,732

2003
$518,592


Total: $1,742,036


1999
Direct public support: $2,924,769
Government grants: $8,595,639
Total: $11,520,435

http://www.guidestar.org/Documents/1999/133/540/1999-133540234-1-9.pdf


2000
Direct public support: $9,627,815
Government grants: $10,472,428
Total: $20,099,243

http://www.guidestar.org/Documents/2000/133/540/2000-133540234-1-9.pdf


2001
Direct public support: $4,419,443
Government grants: $9,084,250
Total: $13,503,693

http://www.guidestar.org/Documents/2001/133/540/2001-133540234-1-9.pdf


2002
Direct public support: $3,880,376
Government grants: $7,306,009
Total: $11,186,385

http://www.guidestar.org/Documents/2002/133/540/2002-133540234-1-9.pdf


2003
Direct public support: $3,285,696
Government grants: $6,122,444
Total: $9,408,140
http://www.guidestar.org/Documents/2003/133/540/2003-133540234-1-9.pdf


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http://www.whitepages.com/

Ho, Dr David D
6 Iris Ln
Chappaqua, NY 10514-2430
(914) 238-6868


Ho, Susan & David
6 Iris Ln
Chappaqua, NY 10514-2430
(914) 238-0635

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http://www.tray.com/

Markowitz, Martin
3/17/2004 $1,000.00
New York, NY 10021
Aaron Diamond Aids Research Center/ -[Contribution]
JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC


Markowitz, Martin
9/29/2004 $250.00
New York, NY 10021
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center/ -[Contribution]
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE


Markowitz, Martin
10/6/2004 $250.00
New York, NY 10021
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center/ -[Contribution]
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE


Markowitz, Martin
10/29/2004 $250.00
New York, NY 10021
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center/ -[Contribution]
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE


Mayer, Cecilia
8/19/2004 $250.00
New York, NY 10021
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center/ -[Contribution]
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE


mayer, cecilia
9/15/2004 $250.00
New York, NY 10021
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center/ -[Contribution]
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE


mayer, cecilia
9/29/2004 $500.00
New York, NY 10021
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center/ -[Contribution]
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE


mayer, cecilia
10/7/2004 $500.00
New York, NY 10021
ADARC/Research Scientist -[Contribution]
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE



Mayer, Cecilia
10/21/2004 $500.00
New York, NY 10021
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center/ -[Contribution]
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE


Mayer, Cecilia
10/14/2004 $500.00
New York, NY 10021
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center/ -[Contribution]
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE


Mayer, Cecilia
10/29/2004 $500.00
New York, NY 10021
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center/ -[Contribution]
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE


Mayer, Cecilia
10/28/2004 $500.00
New York, NY 10021
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center/ -[Contribution]
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE