Creating a charity and spending all the money on management may or may not be illegal. It is corrupt.
Maybe you should wake up.

So another one when a Biden charity benefits only rich lobbyists…enh?

Except this was not a charity and was never designed to donate money. Read the dang thread.

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NOt really what happened, is it? The collection was held in conjunction with a campaign. The state interpreted that the campaign benefited by hold this. No one was robbed of anything, and the charity double benefitted with the fine.

“The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 by the former vice president and his wife Jill Biden to “develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research and care and to reduce disparities in cancer outcomes,” according to its IRS mission statement.”

“The charity took in $4,809,619 in contributions in fiscal years 2017 and 2018, and spent $3,070,301 on payroll in those two years.”

Charities give money to causes. That’s not accurate. It was a nonprofit that provided services to cancer institutions and such.

Oh. What services did it provide?

And why does its 990 state that its purpose is to “Develop and Drive Implementation of Solutions to Accelerate Progress in Cancer Prevention, Diagnosis, Research and Care, and to Reduce Disparities in Cancer Outcomes”.
Did they do any of that?

You can read what services provided in links already posted.

You tell me. I’m not the one making unfounded accusations.

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Sure you are. You stated that the Trump foundation “literally stole from kids with cancer”.

Yawn. Let me know if something happens here. It won’t, just like the Post’s Hunter laptop story. It’ll fade into nothingness and Trump supporters will move onto the next conspiracy.

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Which is not what you asked me about.

The Trump thing is a statement of fact ruled on in a court of law.

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Yeah…yeah…it’s my side so…it’s A-ok…amirite? :sunglasses:

I think we should not be laughing at them, but encouraging their newfound concern to make sure charitable foundations spend their money to actually tackle whatever issue they incorporated as a charity to tackle.

The poster who went deeper into what the Cancer Initiative was all about was doing a service. He even left open the idea there’s still not something quite right here as the salaries paid out might be too high.

We should all do this deeper dive type stuff once we hear a story that tickles our ears.

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Based on the hive response, it’s clear that libs will be defending their kid sniffer a lot more zealously than conservatives ever did for Trump. Not that we didn’t already know. lol

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If it is shown that Biden used the cancer initiative to enrich himself (something even this article doesn’t claim) then I will have no problem denouncing it.

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The Biden Cancer Initiative was never intended to be a grant-making foundation.

Complaining that they’ve given no grants is akin to complaining that the ACLU hasn’t dug any wells in Africa, or that the NRA Foundation hasn’t donated vaccines to India.

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Highly doubtful, but whatever helps. lol

Libs could only bring themselves to be mildly disappointed with Bush 2.0 when he started yet another middle eastern bloodbath, giving birth to ISIS and a new generation of terrorist attacks in Europe in the process.

After 4 years of pure hatred, they’ll support any and everything from Bush 3.0, no matter how shady or bloody.

If Biden wants to start a new war… I will also not support that.

Jon Retzlaff, chief policy officer and vice president of science policy and government affairs for the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), told Medscape Medical News that the organization was "very sorry to hear the news that the Biden Cancer Initiative was suspending its operations, especially because they have been such great partners with the AACR and other organizations over the past couple of years to accelerate progress against cancer."

Retzlaff added that the Initiative’s “particular efforts in reducing cancer disparities, increasing clinical trial accrual, and improving HPV vaccination awareness and understanding — all priorities for the AACR as well — have strongly contributed to advancing our community’s collective goal of saving more lives from cancer.”

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/915794

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