U.S. media outlet The National Archives reported Tuesday that the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) filed a complaint with the Department of Justice against the Truman National Security Project (Truman NSP), the Hunter Biden and The Penn Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Truman Project, Hunter Biden and Harris
The Truman National Security Project, a Washington, D.C.-based neoliberal foreign policy organization with close ties to Hunter Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and others in the Biden Administration, gave a speech at a Truman Project conference in 2015 discussing a speech discussing energy in Ukraine.
The 2019 Truman National Security Project Board of Directors filings show that both Hunter and Jake Sullivan, the Biden administration’s current National Security Advisor, are vice chairs of the Truman Project. Hunter reportedly became a member of the Truman Project’s board in 2011.
Harris, on the other hand, serves on the Truman Center, a sister organization of the Truman Project, and she and Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg are both members of the Truman Center’s Board of Advisors.
As of November 2020, Harris has also been identified by the Truman Project as a member of the Truman Project and a member of the Truman Project’s Board of Advisors. The Truman Project has also supported Harris’ Senate campaign in California.
The Truman Project is not registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act
The Truman Project is accused of being required to register with the Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). This is because Hunter, a former board member of the Truman Project, was once a board member of Brisma Holdings, and Sally Painter, the Truman Project’s director of operations at the Time, was the founder of Blue Star Strategies, which was employed by Brisma Holdings in 2015, while the Truman Project was ” engaging in pro-Brisma political activities in the United States and attempting to promote domestic or foreign policies to the public that oppose the policies of the Trump administration.” The Truman Project, however, is not registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Brisma is the scandal-ridden Ukrainian energy company. From May 2014 to May 2019, Hunter Biden served as a member of Blisma’s board of directors, earning a monthly salary of approximately $50,000.
Blue Star Strategies has been praised by Western countries for helping the former Soviet Union prepare for NATO deliberations. Its founder, Sally Painter, was a senior adviser to the Clinton administration’s Department of Commerce, and another founder, Karen Tramontano, was deputy chief of staff in the Clinton White House.
The Truman Project, a tax-exempt organization, failed to disclose business relationships with others on its Form 990 tax return
As a tax-exempt organization, the Truman Project is required by the IRS to file a Form 990 tax return and disclose whether any of its officers or key employees have “business relationships with any other person,” the National Legal & Policy Center’s complaint states. But the Truman Project did not do so. With Brisma employing Painter and Hunter Biden being a director of Brisma, the Truman Project would have had to disclose the existence of a business relationship. But on its 2017 Form 990, the Truman Project responded to this question by saying no.
Penn’s Biden Center Receives Anonymous Chinese Donations
The complaint also discusses anonymous Chinese donations to the Biden Center at Penn, which is run by Biden’s current Secretary of State Blinken, whose emails appeared on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The National Legal and Policy Center’s complaint notes that “from 2013 to 2019, Penn received more than $67 million in funding from China. What’s more, after the Penn Biden Center (the Penn Biden Center) opened in Washington, D.C., in February 2018, gifts from the Chinese Communist Party poured in, with an anonymous gift received on May 25 of that year amounting to $14.5 million, a situation that continued after Biden announced his presidential candidacy on April 25, 2019.
Penn has declined to disclose the source of these anonymous donations or any documents related to these gifts or contracts. Because of these large gifts and contracts, both Penn and the Penn Biden Center are particularly vulnerable to the influence of the Chinese Communist Party. For example, Penn Global sponsored the fourth annual Penn China Research Symposium on Jan. 31, 2020, with Chinese Communist Party Consul General in New York Huang Ping on hand to deliver opening remarks. At least one of the panelists at the symposium was from Penn’s Biden Center.”
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