U of Penn’s “Biden Center” where classified papers were found is a Biden patronage mill
By Isabel Vincent, Jan. 11, 2023, nypost.com
The Ivy League Biden think tank where lawyers found classified materials linked to the Obama White House is a patronage mill for the Biden administration, raising suspicions among critics that its establishment attracted tens of millions in donations from anonymous Chinese donors.
The Department of Justice is probing how “a small number” of classified documents from President Biden’s years as vice president ended up at the Washington, DC, think tank that bears his name, the White House confirmed Monday. A second batch of papers was found at an additional location, it was reported Wednesday.
The University of Pennsylvania received more than $30 million from Chinese donors shortly after the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, which functioned as an office for Joe Biden before he was elected president, was announced in 2017, according to public records.
The Penn Biden Center — the Ivy League think tank where lawyers found classified materials linked to the Obama White House — is a patronage mill for the Biden administration.
The Biden center, located in Washington, DC, is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania and critics suspect that its establishment attracted tens of millions in donations from anonymous Chinese donors for the school.
“The Penn Biden Center is a dark-money, revolving-door nightmare where foreign competitors like China donated millions of dollars to the university so that they could have access to future high-ranking officials,” said Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at the Virginia-based National Legal and Policy Center.
The University of Pennsylvania raked in a total of $54.6 million from 2014 through June 2019 in donations from China, including $23.1 million in anonymous gifts starting in 2016, according to public records.
Most of the anonymous donations came after the university officially announced in February 2017 that it would create the academic center named for Biden, whose term as vice president under Barack Obama had just ended. In addition to leading the think tank, Biden was named a professor at the school.
It was reported Wednesday that a second batch of confidential documents were found at an additional location.
Several people once associated with the Penn Biden Center now have key positions in the Biden administration.
The Ivy League institution received $15.8 million in anonymous Chinese gifts in 2017 and one $14.5 million donation in May 2018, three months after the center opened, records show.
“The Penn Biden Center has never solicited or received any gifts from any Chinese or other foreign entity,” said a spokesman for the University of Pennsylvania. “In fact, the University has never solicited any gifts for the Center. Since its inception in 2017 there have been three unsolicited gifts (from two donors) which combined total $1,100. Both donors are Americans. One hundred percent of the budget for the Penn Biden Center comes from university funds.”
The center does not list any of its fellows or administrators on its website, and does not have separate financial filings. It operates under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania with a mission of engaging “fellow citizens in shaping this world, while ensuring the gains of global engagement are widely shared,” according to its website.
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Meanwhile, former fellows and administrators of the Penn Biden Center now have key positions in the Biden administration.
Michael Carpenter, the former managing director of the Penn Biden Center, was named the US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, based in Vienna, in 2021. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also briefly served as director of the think tank before joining the Biden administration in January 2021. Before that, Blinken was a policy adviser for Biden’s 2020 campaign.
Juan Sebastian Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the center from April 2018 to September 2020, is special assistant to the president and the national security director for the Western Hemisphere at the White House, according to his LinkedIn page.
The sensitive material at the center was discovered by Biden’s personal lawyers on Nov. 2, 2022, while they “were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space,” according to a statement from Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president.
Sauber said Biden used the Washington, DC, office space from “mid-2017 until the start of the 2020 campaign” in April 2019.
Michael Carpenter, the former managing director of the Penn Biden Center, was named the US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in 2021.
After Biden was elected president in 2020, the center said it would operate “completely independent of the Biden administration.”
Penn’s address and central phone number
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
University operator: 215-898-5000
Biden: ‘I want to’ return to Penn after presidency
Biden said he “want[s]” to resume his involvement in U of Penn’s “Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement” after leaving the White House.
And here’s why.................
WHYY-PBS reported U of Pennsylvania made a $100 million contribution to the Phila School District.
Is the U of Penn’s donation Chinese money?
Is Penn getting rid of evidence to save Biden’s sorry ***?
WHYY.com / / FR Posted on 12/6/2020 by Kid Shelleen
U of Pennsylvania suddenly made a gargantuan $100 million contribution to the School District of Philadelphia.......(Excerpt) Read more at whyy.org ...
From Solomon’s report: The complaint, filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, says that over the past three years, the university has (admitted to accepting around) $22 million in anonymous funding from Chinese sources. That’s out of a total of more than $70 million from Chinese donors during that time, the NLPC said.
Those significant funds, including the anonymous amounts, rolled in after the Biden Center was announced in early 2017 and launched in February 2018. The center is located in downtown Washington, D.C. Federal records show that the University of Pennsylvania has received significant donations from Communist China since the opening of the Biden Center.
One 2018 donation alone totals $14.5 million; it is listed as “anonymous” in federal records. The NLPC alleges the university may have violated federal law in accepting those anonymous monetary donations from Communist China. The Higher Education Act mandates schools report the national origins of any donations above $250,000 although not necessarily the individual names of donors themselves. [End]
This serves as just one more reminder that Biden, his son (and his brother) have long been in the pockets of Communist Chinese interests. The stark reality facing our country today is thatall of the gains President Donald Trump has made through the sheer force of his will in terms of U.S./China relations and trade policy will be immediately reversed the day after Biden assumes office.
KEEP IN MIND.....virtually all U.S. antibiotics and PPE are sourced through China at some point along their supply chains....... There are trillions of dollars at stake, and Creepy Uncle Joe wants to ensure his family continues to get its fair share out of Communist China.
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It has recently come to light that US politicians are sending Communist China vast amts of tax dollars to supposedly buy (cough) “Covid masks.”Cali Gov Newsome was nabbed sending China a billion tax dollars. Why? Because the Chinese are using the Covid orders to launder the tax dollars for the salivating pols.
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Biden recently said he wants to return to Penn’s “Biden Center” when he leaves office.
Penn’s address and central phone number
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
University operator: 215-898-5000
I can picture Joe now -— stretched out on his folding chair in the middle of the campus lawn, sleeping.
Gee. That’s odd. One investigation shows 54.6 millions in anonymous “donations” from China to the University of Pennsylvania, but the University spokesman denies all possible corruption and foreign money influences by claiming Biden’s Center at the Wkashington DC branch got “all of its funding from the University.”
Seems “perfectly clear” to me. (They routed the money to Biden’s family through other UPenn accounts.
Because Obama-Biden-Harris is an honest, moral, middle class democrat!