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Penn Biden Center where classified papers were found is a 'dark money nightmare'

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The Ivy League 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 currently 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 were 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 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 also named a professor at 
the school.

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 web 
site, 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.

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 
Anthony Blinken also briefly served as director of the think tank before 
joining the Biden administration in January 2021. Before that, Blinken was 
a policy advisor for President Biden’s 2020 campaign.

Juan Sebastian Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the center from April 2018 to 
September 2020, is currently 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 that Biden used the Washington, DC, office space from “mid-
2017 until the start of the 2020 campaign” in April 2019.

After Joe Biden was elected president in 2020, the center said it would 
operate “completely independent of the Biden administration.”

Other Ivy League colleges have raked in Chinese money, including Harvard, 
which got $75 million during the 2014-2019 period, and Yale, which 
received $43.5 million, records show.

The Education Department opened investigations in 2020 into whether 
Harvard and Yale were meeting reporting requirements for foreign cash.

Comments:

Dennis Lee
5 hours ago

Democrats were complaining about docs found at Mar a Lago, which is 
protected by SS and private. Unlike U. Penn which is public and unsecured. 

Time to appoint special counsel. 

MissBea
7 hours ago

It’s not hard to connect the dots. The Bidens are proving to be the most 
corrupt political family in US history. He should be tried for treason in 
this instance. Biden literally put top secret documents in the hands of 
the Chinese in exchange for donations. The college should be charged as 
well. If that isn’t treason, I don’t know what is.

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