Chinese donations to UPenn are a ‘dark-money nightmare,' says NLPC chairman
UPenn owns The Penn Biden Center located in Washington, DC.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Amid several revelations of Joe Biden stashing classified documents from his vice presidency, a new report emerged that several donations from anonymous Chinese sources were sent to the University of Pennsylvania – which owns The Penn Biden Center – including a $14 million gift in 2018. National Legal and Policy Center Chairman Peter Flaherty joined "Fox & Friends Weekend," Saturday Morning, to explain the significance of this report.
Flaherty demanded, "We now renew our call for the University of Pennsylvania to disclose who in China gave all this money to the Biden Center?"
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}PETER FLAHERTY: What's significant here is that once the Biden Center was established, the gifts accelerated and much of the money was anonymous as you pointed out, there was a single $14 million anonymous gift in 2018 from a source in China.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - FEBRUARY 19: Former U.S Vice president Joe Biden speaks at the University of Pennsylvania’s Irvine Auditorium February 19, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The attention that this whole thing is getting now is a great relief to us because we focused on this issue in 2020. We tabulated the amounts of money from Chinese sources, and we filed a complaint with the Department of Education because universities are supposed to disclose any gift over $250,000. And the University of Pennsylvania did not do that. Unfortunately, to our chagrin, the Education Department didn't do anything about it. So we now renew our call for the University of Pennsylvania to disclose who in China gave all this money to the Biden Center.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An office building housing the Penn Biden Center, a think tank affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, is seen in Washington, DC, January 10, 2023, following reports that classified documents from the time when US President Joe Biden was serving as Barack Obama's vice president have been found. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Editor's note: a previous version of this article stated that payments from anonymous Chinese sources were made directly to The Penn Biden Center. However, payments were sent to the University of Pennsylvania which owns The Penn Biden Center. The article and headline were changed to reflect this.