A dramatic legal battle unfolds as a former university faculty member and U.S. Army Reserve officer files a lawsuit against multiple high-profile defendants, alleging a conspiracy to suppress his scientific work and violate his constitutional rights. On December 4, 2025, Moses Turkle Bility, Ph.D., acting pro se, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against Brigadier General Reginald Kornegay and other defendants.
The case revolves around allegations that from 2020 through 2024, the defendants engaged in a multi-institutional conspiracy to retaliate against Dr. Bility’s scientific speech, fabricate false psychiatric narratives, interfere with his employment opportunities, and cause him severe harm. Dr. Bility claims this retaliation was sparked by his publication of a novel scientific model in 2020 that received recognition from prestigious scientific communities but was met with hostility by his employer at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). The plaintiff alleges that senior Pitt leadership sought to discredit or appropriate his work and began treating the publication itself as evidence of mental instability.
Dr. Bility’s allegations are supported by evidence such as unredacted NIH emails obtained through FOIA requests, communications with congressional offices, video recordings, text messages, sworn statements from others, digital timestamps, and medical records. He accuses Xavier Becerra of approving false statements in an agency decision and failing to correct misconduct despite being notified of irregularities concerning NIH’s treatment of him. Furthermore, Dr. Michael S. Lauer is accused of ignoring complaints about impersonation and harassment.
The plaintiff seeks declaratory relief acknowledging the violations of his rights under the First Amendment for retaliation against protected speech activities; Fifth Amendment due process violations for arbitrary government actions; Fourth Amendment unlawful seizure; civil conspiracy under §1985; neglect under §1986; defamation; intentional infliction of emotional distress; negligence; assault & battery; abuse of process; tortious interference with employment; common-law civil conspiracy.
Dr. Bility demands compensatory damages for professional harm including loss of career opportunities at NIH and academic trajectory derailment due to reputational destruction caused by false psychiatric narratives spread across institutions like Walter Reed Medical Center where he was forcibly detained without lawful basis or diagnostic evaluation based on fabricated labels originating from Pitt’s initial retaliation attempt after publishing peer-reviewed articles integrating geochemistry-geophysics-spin-chemical models describing viral disease emergence via Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity Effect (CISS Effect).
The attorneys involved include Moses Turkle Bility representing himself pro se while Judge Leonie M Brinkema presides over Case ID: 1:25-cv-02247-LMB-IDD.
Source: 125cv02247_Bility_PHD_v_Brigadier_General_Reginald_Kornegay_Complaint_Eastern_District_Virginia.pdf
