REPORT: Bernie Sanders Quietly Funneled $200K in Campaign Cash Into Wife and Son’s Non-Profit Organization

Democratic-Socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders apparently moved $200,000 from his campaign into the non-profit institute that employs his wife and son.

Sanders frequently demands that the rich ‘pay their fair share’ and rants against the capitalist system, but has done extremely well for himself financially in the process.

The is report also raises questions about what the non-profit in question actually does.

From FOX News:

Bernie Sanders funneled $200K in campaign cash to wife and stepson’s nonprofit institute, records reveal

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders quietly funneled $200,000 from his campaign’s coffers to his wife’s nonprofit institute, which appears to do very little work and pays six figures’ worth of compensation to her son, Fox News Digital has found.

The independent senator’s committee cut two $100,000 checks to the Sanders Institute for reported charitable contributions in January and March, its Federal Election Commission records show. The expenditures are the largest from the Sanders campaign to any entity this election cycle.

The senator’s wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, and stepson, David Driscoll, co-established the Sanders Institute in 2017 to act as a think tank to promote progressive voices, The Washington Post wrote at its launch…

Just two years after its launch, in 2019, the institute announced it would suspend operations as Sen. Sanders sought the Democratic nomination for president to avoid the “appearance of impropriety” and presumably to take away a line of attack from his rivals over its money.

The institute has since quietly resumed operations while seemingly sidestepping media attention. Its latest publicly available tax forms from 2021 show the nonprofit burnt nearly 40% of its donations on salaries while appearing to conduct minimal work and having very few identifiable accomplishments.

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NIH took royalties from Wuhan lab collaborator, alleged front for Russian bioweapons: records

National Cancer Institute leader received nearly 200 royalty payments from vaccine makers. Pfizer and Moderna made more than 400 payments. OxyContin maker paid licensing fees too.

The National Institutes of Health and its scientists received royalties from Chinese Communist Party-controlled pharmaceutical companies, including one that collaborated with a suspected source of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a Russian vaccine maker that reportedly may have served as a front for Soviet bioweapons research, according to newly disclosed records.

NIH fought to shield the identities of the entities that paid to license its taxpayer-funded inventions from the agency and individual scientists, including then-Director Francis Collins and then-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, who together received 58 payments from seven companies.

While the feds lost that fight in court, the amounts that Fauci, Collins and hundreds of other government scientists were paid in royalties remains hidden for the moment. The top 10 scientists received between 387 and 655 payments each, the new figures show.

OpenTheBooks.com sued the feds nearly two years ago when NIH refused its Freedom of Information Act requests for specifics on royalties paid to its employees by outside entities among other information.

The initial disclosures revealed NIH received an estimated $350 million in royalties from third-party payers from 2010-2020, a figure lowered to $325 million in the latest unredacted production.

The Aug. 7 joint status report submitted by the parties says OpenTheBooks is "evaluating NIH’s productions and withholdings in light of the additional" July 31 release by NIH — nearly 3,000 re-released pages containing "certain information that had previously been withheld." They will file an additional joint status report by Nov. 6.

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The removal of redactions shows that Fauci and acting NIH Director Lawrence Tabak gave "misleading, if not outright false" statements to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) when they claimed they could not identify the entities paying license fees, OpenTheBooks said Wednesday in a report on the findings.

It cites investigative reporting by Just the News founder John Solomon from nearly two decades ago at the Associated Press, based on FOIA requests that revealed royalty payments to Fauci among others.

NIH spent $36 million to test an experimental HIV treatment developed by Fauci, which New England Journal of Medicine and Cochrane studies found ineffective. Fauci received about $45,000 in royalty payments from 1997-2004 from Chiron Corp., which was soon acquired by Novartis, which itself has since made more than 300 royalty payments to NIH. Fauci received another eight payments from Chiron since 2010.

"NIH spends billions on the industry, and now we know the industry sends millions back to NIH and its scientists," OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski wrote in the report.

In an interview with Just the News, Andrzejewski said the cozy relationship between NIH and drug companies raises further concerns about conflicts of interest that can affect public safety and shake public trust.

” I think during the pandemic, John, the American people started to feel that big government was very close to Big Pharma. And this is a database that shows you empirically just how close they are,” he told the John Solomon Reports podcast.

https://youtu.be/iuy-L71auf0

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/nih-took-money-wuhan-lab-collaborator-alleged-front-russian-bioweapons

Joe Biden's Office Devised Talking Points About Burisma Executive Right After Hunter 'Called DC,' Emails Show

Then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office sent talking points to the State Department about Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky days after Hunter Biden “called D.C.” from the site of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma’s board meeting, emails show.

The State Department received talking points about Zlochevsky from then-VP Biden’s communications staffer Kate Bedingfield on Dec. 6, 2014, according to internal emails released by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs.

“Proposed TPs for the VP if he gets asked after the stories break in the next few days. Especially interested in your feedback on how to answer the third Q if he gets asked,” Bedingfield said, according to the emails.

“Q: Do you think Zlochevsky is corrupt? A: I’m not going to get into naming names or accusing individuals. We have been working consistently to push the Ukranian [sic] leadership to make meaningful changes in the Prosecutor General’s office and across the government to help ensure that the Ukranian [sic] people are represented fairly and fully,” Bedingfield continued in a list of sample questions.

Bedingfield was later hired to be President Biden’s White House communications director, then departed in February 2023 to become a CNN pundit.

Joe Biden on Dec. 9, 2015, spoke to Ukraine’s parliament with a focus on tackling corruption and making sure “oligarchs and non-oligarchs … play by the same rules,” White House archives show.

Hunter Biden “called D.C.” in December 2015 from a Dubai Four Seasons hotel at the request of Zlochevsky and Burisma executive Vadim Pozharsyki, former business associate Devon Archer testified to the House Oversight Committee on July 31. Biden was making more than $80,000 per month as a Burisma board member, which amounted to more than $1 million annually, according to bank records from House Oversight.

Emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop archive indicate Pozharskyi planned for the Burisma board meeting to happen on the afternoon of Dec. 4 at the hotel in Dubai. Flight and hotel notifications from Hunter Biden’s inbox indicate he flew into Dubai on Dec. 3 and left Dec. 6, in accordance with Pozharskyi’s plans. Biden emailed a friend Dec. 3 saying he landed in Dubai, and emailed attorney Christopher Boies on Dec. 4 about another meeting he had planned in Dubai the next day.

Archer described to House Oversight a coffee appointment he had with Hunter Biden, Zlochevsky and Pozharskyi following Burisma’s board meeting that appeared to take place Dec. 4, 2015.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/09/joe-biden-talking-points-burisma-executive-hunter-dc/

Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan

“All will be forgiven,” said a U.S. diplomat, if the no-confidence vote against Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan succeeds.

The U.S. State Department encouraged the Pakistani government in a March 7, 2022, meeting to remove Imran Khan as prime minister over his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a classified Pakistani government document obtained by The Intercept.

The meeting, between the Pakistani ambassador to the United States and two State Department officials, has been the subject of intense scrutiny, controversy, and speculation in Pakistan over the past year and a half, as supporters of Khan and his military and civilian opponents jockeyed for power. The political struggle escalated on August 5 when Khan was sentenced to three years in prison on corruption charges and taken into custody for the second time since his ouster. Khan’s defenders dismiss the charges as baseless. The sentence also blocks Khan, Pakistan’s most popular politician, from contesting elections expected in Pakistan later this year.

One month after the meeting with U.S. officials documented in the leaked Pakistani government document, a no-confidence vote was held in Parliament, leading to Khan’s removal from power. The vote is believed to have been organized with the backing of Pakistan’s powerful military. Since that time, Khan and his supporters have been engaged in a struggle with the military and its civilian allies, whom Khan claims engineered his removal from power at the request of the U.S.

The text of the Pakistani cable, produced from the meeting by the ambassador and transmitted to Pakistan, has not previously been published. The cable, known internally as a “cypher,” reveals both the carrots and the sticks that the State Department deployed in its push against Khan, promising warmer relations if Khan was removed, and isolation if he was not.

The document, labeled “Secret,” includes an account of the meeting between State Department officials, including Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu, and Asad Majeed Khan, who at the time was Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S.

The document was provided to The Intercept by an anonymous source in the Pakistani military who said that they had no ties to Imran Khan or Khan’s party. The Intercept is publishing the body of the cable below, correcting minor typos in the text because such details can be used to watermark documents and track their dissemination.

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/