This is a deeply uninformed comment. I don’t even know where to start. Nearly every sentence is wrong. You can absolutely get hauled in front of a judge for

This is a deeply uninformed comment. I don’t even know where to start. Nearly every sentence is wrong. You can absolutely get hauled in front of a judge for fraud and abuse in the use of NIH grants. You can be required to pay all of the money back, among other punishments. Google will reveal a variety of cases. It is in fact rare for retired federal bureaucrats to become professors. It is much more common for people at the Secretary level to get teaching positions at schools of public policy. I am not aware of any former CIA directors holding those roles but I invite you to look. These schools are not “hotbeds of spies” - truly that it is a completely uninformed statement. By the way, very few law professors work via grants and even fewer via NIH grants.