China and Penn Biden Center
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The think tank is the latest avenue Biden family members have created for foreign donors to “invest in Joe.” BY FRED LUCAS
he discovery in November of classifi ed documents at the Penn Biden Center for Diplo-
macy and Global Engagement thrust the think tank into the national spotlight in a way it really should have been before. The nonprofi t seems to be an
extension of the Biden family’s long history of what many con- sider infl uence peddling. And it’s also a comfortable spot for Biden confi dants. If infl uence peddling isn’t prov-
able, it is clear without a congres- sional investigation that Biden family members — namely his son Hunter and brothers Jim and Frank — have cashed in from those hoping to “invest in Joe.” Just as some of those Biden
family deals involved China, some of the Penn Biden Center funding appears to coincide with a boost in
China donations to the university.
PENN BIDEN CENTER Established after Joe Biden’s eight years as vice president under Barack Obama, the Penn Biden Center is located about a mile from the White House, at 101 Con- stitution Ave. NW, with a view of Capitol Hill. It opened on Feb. 8, 2018. The University of Pennsylvania, a pri- vate Ivy League school, paid Biden more than $900,000 from 2017 to 2019 for fairly undefi ned duties. Biden also hired some of his
longtime loyalists from the Sen- ate and the vice presidency at the center, many of whom now have prominent administration roles. The FBI searched the Penn
Biden Center offi ces in mid- November after lawyers for Biden found about 10 documents marked classifi ed there on Nov. 2, six days before the midterm elections. The
material originated from Biden’s time as vice president. The administration, the
National Archives and Records Administration, and the FBI had made a public spectacle of fi nd- ing classifi ed information at the Florida home of former President Donald Trump. But they were completely silent
about Biden’s stash of classifi ed documents. The discovery was not revealed until CBS News reported it in January.
Burisma and Bidens: A $5 Million Bribe?
according to an FBI document that is part of a House Oversight Committee investigation. Hunter Biden was a member of the board of Burisma,
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a Ukrainian energy exploration company. The document is dated June 30, 2020, and is based on an FBI interview with what the agency describes as a “highly credible” confidential source. The source talked about meetings he or she had with
a top executive of Burisma over several years starting in 2015, according to Fox News. The form does not indicate that the information is
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n executive of the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings paid then-Vice President Joe Biden $5 million as part of a bribery scheme,
true, but the informant has worked with the agency since 2010. According to the document, the Burisma executive
asked the FBI source, who is a business professional, for advice on getting U.S. oil rights and becoming involved with an American oil company in 2015 and 2016. The confidential source asked the executive why he or she did not just ask Hunter Biden’s advice since he was on the Burisma board, and the Burisma executive reportedly answered that Hunter Biden was “dumb.” The Burisma of icial then reportedly told the FBI
source that the company had to “pay the Bidens” because the company was being investigated by Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, and that it would
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