Why wouldn’t the University of Pennsylvania reveal the Chinese donors who contributed more than $22 million to the Biden Center of Diplomacy?
The National Legal and Policy Center has repeatedly pressed the university to divulge where the anonymous gifts came from. The NLPC also filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education flagging the donations, which it contends must be tied to a source under a federal law that requires universities to disclose any donations over $250,000.
Despite these efforts to uncover the source of the donations, the identities remain under wraps. According to the NLPC, the Education Department said it will not force the Biden Center to disclose the donor list.
According to NLPC, UPenn received more than $70 million from Chinese sources between 2013 and 2019. Of that amount, about $22 million was logged as coming from anonymous sources in China.
Money poured into the school after the Penn Biden Center officially opened. In May 2108, the largest anonymous donation from China rolled in, totaling $14.5 million. More money was donated once Biden announced he was running for president last year. It is unclear exactly how much money went directly to the Penn Biden Center, according to the financials reported in the NLPC complaInt.
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