{"id":1816464,"date":"2023-01-19T17:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1816464"},"modified":"2023-01-19T17:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:24:38","slug":"oversight-committee-requests-university-of-pennsylvania-provide-information-on-anonymous-chinese-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oversight-committee-requests-university-of-pennsylvania-provide-information-on-anonymous-chinese-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Oversight Committee Requests University of Pennsylvania Provide Information on Anonymous Chinese Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foversight-committee-requests-university-of-pennsylvania-provide-information-on-anonymous-chinese-donations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1816464&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/01\/Untitled-design-2023-01-18T112719.484.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>James Comer, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability (Republican from Kentucky), is requesting information from the University of Pennsylvania about anonymous Chinese donations to Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote a letter to university President Liz Magill on Wednesday over concerns of foreign influence after the recent discovery of classified documents in President Joe Biden\u2019s former office at the center, which is part of the Ivy League institution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating President Biden\u2019s possible illegal handling of sensitive, highly classified documents. Recent reports reveal President Biden\u2019s attorneys discovered Obama-Biden Administration documents in an unsecured closet at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement\u2014a Washington, D.C.-based think tank affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania,\u201d Comer <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-18-Letter-UPenn-Penn-Biden-Center.pdf\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Comer blasted the president\u2019s lax security over classified documents, arguing that the committee needs information on China\u2019s donors to determine if there are national security threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden\u2019s pattern of mishandling classified documents is alarming. The Committee is concerned about who had access to these documents given the Biden family\u2019s financial connections to foreign actors and companies. The American people deserve to know whether the Chinese Communist Party, through Chinese companies, influenced potential Biden Administration policies with large, anonymous donations to UPenn and the Penn Biden Center,\u201d He wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/comer-anonymous-chinese-donations-to-upenn-potentially-influenced-biden-administration-policies%EF%BF%BC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>The Oversight Committee was concerned that UPenn received donations of millions from anonymous Chinese sources. These donations are said to have tripled since the Penn Biden Center was founded, as Biden continued his exploration of a 2020 run for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Penn Biden Center appears to have acted as a foreign-sponsored source of income for much of a Biden Administration in-waiting,\u201d Comer continued to write the letter. \u201cBetween 2017 and 2019, UPenn paid President Biden more than $900,000, and the university employed at least 10 people at the Penn Biden Center who later became senior Biden administration officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comer argued that the evidence points to the need to determine who had access to the classified documents recently found in Biden\u2019s former office at the university\u2019s center in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis level of access and opportunity raises questions about who had access to the classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center. It is imperative to understand whether any Biden family members or associates gained access to the classified documents while stored at the Penn Biden Center,\u201d He concluded.<\/p>\n<p>It is also possible that there are connections between the Penn Biden Center staff and the Biden Administration. Secretary of State Antony Blinken served as the center\u2019s director from 2017 to 2019 and received more than $79,000 in salary. The Washington Free Beacon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/watchdog-calls-on-biden-center-to-disclose-foreign-donations-as-doj-investigates-classified-docs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cited<\/a> at least two additional former center staff members who later received positions in the Biden administration, along with the university\u2019s former president, Amy Gutmann, who was appointed as the U.S. Last year, the Ambassador to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The Oversight Committee is not the only group seeking details on the connections between Biden and UPenn\u2019s foreign donations.<\/p>\n<p>The National Legal and Policy Center has also asked that the university disclose foreign contributions. In 2020, NLPC filed a lawsuit against the university as well as the Biden Centre for failing to disclose where anonymous Chinese donations came from.<\/p>\n<p>This watchdog group was also established recently. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlpc.org\/government-integrity-project\/nlpc-files-foias-to-find-out-how-classified-documents-ended-up-at-biden-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed<\/a> Freedom of Information Act requests with the Department of Justice and National Archives to determine how classified documents ended up in Biden\u2019s former office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Comer, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability (Republican from Kentucky), is requesting information from the University of Pennsylvania about anonymous Chinese donations to Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. 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