Biden Cancer Nonprofit Paid Its Top Execs Millions. It Spent Little to Eradicate Cancer

Nearly two-thirds of the money the Biden Cancer Initiative spent since its founding in 2017 went toward staff compensation and six-figure salaries for top executives. The group spent far less on efforts to eradicate cancer.

One of several nonprofits Joe Biden created following his tenure in the White House, the Biden Cancer Initiative paid top executives lavishly, with salaries comprising nearly 65 percent of its total expenditures. That is well above the 25 percent charity watchdogs recommend nonprofits spend on administrative overhead and fundraising costs combined.

The nonprofit raised and spent $4.8 million over its two years in operation, its 2017 and 2018 tax forms show. Slightly more than $3 million of that amount went to salaries, compensation, and benefits. At the same time, the group spent just $1.7 million on all of its other expenses. A bulk of this cash—$740,000—was poured into conferences, conventions, and meetings. It did not cut a single grant to any other group or foundation during its two-year run.

An analysis of nonprofits by Charity Navigator, which rates charities for effectiveness, found that mid-to-large-sized nonprofits paid their chief executives an average salary of $126,000 per year—far less than what the Biden Cancer Initiative paid its president, Greg Simon, who pocketed $224,539 in 2017 and $429,850 in 2018. Charity Navigator's primary criterion for rating charities is whether they "spend at least 75% of their expenses directly on their programs."

The Biden cancer group's financial disclosures may raise new questions about whether the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee allowed associates to profit off their access to him. Before going on to receive six-figure salaries from the Biden Cancer Initiative, Simon and the initiative's vice president, Danielle Carnival, previously worked for the Obama administration's Cancer Moonshot program. Biden's son Hunter received $50,000 a month to sit on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma despite an apparent lack of qualifications. James Biden, Joe Biden's brother, joined a construction firm in 2010 that later won a $1.5 billion contract to build homes in Iraq while Biden oversaw Iraq policy. Biden's presidential campaign has been plagued with questions about Hunter's and James's financial activities.

Simon was only one of several highly paid Biden Cancer Initiative executives. Carnival was also compensated handsomely, collecting a combined $391,897 in 2017 and 2018. Simon and Carnival were the only two individuals paid both years by the nonprofit. During its second year in operation, the initiative added others to its payroll, including director of communications Cecilia Arradaza (who was paid $171,012), director of engagement Lisa Simms Booth ($197,544), and director of science policy Catherine Young ($170,904).

Biden stepped away from the initiative and his other nonprofits shortly before entering the presidential race to avoid conflicts of interest. Many of the health companies that Biden touted during his time with the nonprofit have financial and regulatory interests with the federal government. Simon told the Associated Press in 2019 that many of the group's attempted partnerships with medical organizations were "not successful."

The Biden Cancer Initiative was launched to continue the agenda of the Cancer Moonshot program, which President Obama created toward the end of his second term in hopes of accelerating research in the field. Biden, whose son Beau died from the disease, led the program with Simon's help.

The nonprofit operated primarily through indirect money pledges from 57 partnerships, which included drug and health insurance companies. The group also pushed for data sharing, patient support, and other medical initiatives.

The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment. Simon did not respond to inquiries on the Biden Cancer Initiative's finances and what the group had ultimately achieved before ceasing its operations.

Here's another “shady Biden staff” story.....all of his Senate/VP staff need to be investigated.

ITEM---Biden molested her, then kicked former staffer Tara Reade to the curb, but other Biden staffers went on to become millionaires.

BACKSTORY Scott Green is a 'national security lobbyist” formerly served a staffer for Sen Joe Biden. Green made a deal with a Biden brother paying $150,000 for land tax assessed at only $38,000.

In effect, James Biden got his money back while keeping most of the land—recouping his investment in just 12 months. Ex-staffer Green was the front man ---- seemingly losing money to enrich James Biden.

But VP Joe Biden repaid his ex-staffer Green bigtime for doing the Biden family a financial favor. Green’s ties to Biden merited him a financial windfall (on the backs of taxpayers).
<><> members of Green's (cough) lobbying firm, the Lafayette Group, were frequent visitors at the Obama-Biden White House.
<><> On April 11, 2010, the ex-staffer's Lafayette Group was awarded two taxpayer-funded FEMA contracts worth a total of $5.8 million.

Where'd those millions go? Anybody know? <><>How many other Biden staffers got federal monies?

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THIS WE KNOW
<><> then-VP Joe Biden’s taxpayer-funded trip to China took place in 2013.
<><> Hunter also flew Air Force Two .... using tax dollars to conduct private business, to form a lucrative Chinese private equity fund.
<><> Hunter's daughter traveled with the official group.

Astoundingly in the vast bureaucracy that is the Chinese Communist govt,
just 10 days after Hunter's trip, the Communist Chinese government issued Hunter's equity fund a business license.

It would be impossible to know which Communist Party official had the power to do the deal with Hunter.
The deal HAD to be arranged in DC by Biden's staff----well-in-advance of the official trip------
so when the Bidens arrived the deal was good to go, and a license to do business at the ready.

Joe Biden pled innocent, saying he and Hunter "did not discuss" the lucrative business deal during the 12 hour flight. Of course not ---- b/c the Hunter deal was all done in advance ....... by Joe's tax-paid VP staff.
Hunter Biden soaked the taxpayers, using govt-sponsored travel to conduct private business, flying on the VP’ s plane and having the VP's staff arrange the details.

KEEP IN MIND An official US trip is planned and choreographed
with every detail in place----even how long Biden waved before going down the steps to meet the Chinese delegation.

Hunter admits he arranged for his Chinese business partner to meet his Dad-----and in the shady world of global
politics, having a picture taken with the US VP is worth gazillions. This tidbit was also verified by NY magazine.

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ABC News reported: “Ukraine wasn't the only country where Hunter Biden's business and his father's diplomacy as Vice President intersected.
It also happened in China.” When VP Joe Biden flew to China on Air Force Two, his son Hunter went with him.....as well as Hunter's daughter.

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Lookit her---the moronic grand-daughter waves at Chinese dignitaries like it was old home week, like she's some sort of diplomat.

Hunter looks like he's salivating for clinching another deal on the taxpayers' dime.

Biden Center Under Investigation for Illegal Donations From China
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon / FR Posted on 5/25/2020 by EyesOfTX

If the label says “Biden,” it was definitely influenced by China. – John Solomon at JustTheNews.com is reporting that The National Legal and Policy Center has asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate its findings that the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has over the past several years accepted more than $22 million in anonymous China-originated donations to its Biden Center and failed to properly disclose the contributions.

From Solomon’s report: The complaint, filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, says that over the past three years, the university has accepted 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 China since the opening of the 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. 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 Chinese interests. The stark reality facing our country today is that, should Biden manage to win the election in November, all 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.

If you like the fact that virtually all U.S. antibiotics and PPE are sourced through China at some point along their supply chains and want it to stay that way, vote for Biden. Because that would be a fait accompli should he win. There are trillions of dollars at stake, and Creepy Uncle Quid Pro China Joe wants to ensure his family continues to get its fair share.

The stench of panic pandering is strong in this one. – How would you like to be Symone Sanders, the African American hack who serves as racist Joe Biden’s press spokesperson? Sanders has spent the last few days desperately trying to clean up the pile of doggie-do the nation’s Unfrozen Caveman Presumptive Nominee left on the floor on Saturday, when he told a clearly-Black radio host “you ain’t black” if he has a hard time decided whether to vote for Biden or President Trump this November.

Appearing on MSNBC’s “Politics DC” show hosted by venerable old race-baiter Al Sharpton on Sunday, Ms. Sanders blurted out this bit of obvious panic pandering, as reported at Breitbart News:

“Vice President Biden has committed to making sure that we are underscoring not just the civil rights division and the Department of Justice, the civil rights division across his administration,” Sanders told MSNBC “PoliticsNation” host Al Sharpton. “He is committed to putting judges on the bench that reflect the community, taking a hard look, and making sure that they are African-American judges on the bench, qualified judges on the bench. He has committed to putting a black woman on the Supreme Court.”

So now, in addition to having the standard Democrat Party litmus test of having to be pro-abortion on demand and even after birth, Sanders says Biden will add the litmus tests of being a woman and African American to his list of pre-qualifications when considering his first nominee to the Supreme Court. This kind of rank discrimination is so despicable and anti-American that it is hard to put into words. It takes panic pandering to an entirely new level.

But this is Joe Biden, and this is what you can expect if you vote for him in November.

Think carefully before going into that voting booth, folks.

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