Campus beat: Penn Biden Center = Corruption

The classified docs found at Joe Biden’s old office highlight the unsavory nature of the Penn Biden Center itself, fumes Charles Lipson at Spectator World: The center was “purpose-built to give Biden’s inner circle a snug resting place as they waited for Joe to run again,” while the exveep’s “position there was richly paid and required almost no work.” Worse, it “provided a hidden way for donors, both foreign and domestic, to cull favor with a prospective presidential candidate, fatten his wallet, and do it all behind closed doors.” The university insists the center got no “donor funding, aside from a few thousand dollars,” but doesn’t address cash “transferred from one university account to another to mask its origins.” And Penn got some $30 million “from well-connected Chinese nationals after the Center was established.” Did Joe benefit improperly “from the many profitable contacts his family had with foreign entities, some of them corrupt”?