Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research

[Anonymous]

Wonder how many of these employees will be tapped to serve in Biden's administration.

A cancer charity started by Joe Biden gave out no money to research, and spent most of its contributions on staff salaries, federal filings show.

The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 by the former vice president and his wife Jill Biden to help find “solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention” and help find a cure, but gave out no grants in its first two years, and spent millions on the salaries of former Washington DC aides it hired.

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. The group’s president, Gregory Simon, raked in $429,850 in fiscal 2018 (July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019), according to the charity’s most recent federal tax filings.

Simon, a former Pfizer executive and longtime health care lobbyist who headed up the White Houses’s cancer task force in the Obama administration, saw his salary nearly double from the $224,539 he made in fiscal 2017, tax filings show.

Danielle Carnival, former chief of staff for Obama’s cancer initiative, the Cancer Moonshot Task Force, who took home $258,207 in 2018.

https://nypost.com/2020/11/14/biden-cancer-initiative-spent-millions-on-payroll-zero-on-research-report/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

[Anonymous]

Sigh. Read the underlying documents. The foundation exists to manage and administer grants, not to conduct funding itself. The American Medical Association doesn’t operate a single hospital - so you probably think that’s made-up too.

Fully understood that you’re a Trump Troll but you just have to be smarter than that post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Read the underlying documents. The foundation exists to manage and administer grants, not to conduct funding itself. The American Medical Association doesn’t operate a single hospital - so you probably think that’s made-up too.

Fully understood that you’re a Trump Troll but you just have to be smarter than that post.

So they are essentially a small business that use a charitable designation to pay no taxes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Read the underlying documents. The foundation exists to manage and administer grants, not to conduct funding itself. The American Medical Association doesn’t operate a single hospital - so you probably think that’s made-up too.

Fully understood that you’re a Trump Troll but you just have to be smarter than that post.

So they are essentially a small business that use a charitable designation to pay no taxes?

No, but since you don’t know the difference: they advise on and manage fund-raising by other entities that are largely conducting some research and some clinical trials and that do not have their own fund-raising management available. They do not conduct and we’re not started for the purpose of conducting research. They manage research development. But that’s way, way above your comprehension.

[Anonymous]

Who cares? Where is Trump's tax returns?

[Anonymous]

NY Post? LOL!

[Anonymous]

Tabloids =/= newspapers

[Anonymous]

Lmao everyone actually from the NYC area knows that the NY Post is one step above the National Enquirer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lmao everyone actually from the NYC area knows that the NY Post is one step above the National Enquirer.

PP again. Even when I was a conservative, I didn't take the Post seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Read the underlying documents. The foundation exists to manage and administer grants, not to conduct funding itself. The American Medical Association doesn’t operate a single hospital - so you probably think that’s made-up too.

Fully understood that you’re a Trump Troll but you just have to be smarter than that post.

So they are essentially a small business that use a charitable designation to pay no taxes?

You are at least a consistent moron:

"In establishing the Biden Cancer Initiative, Vice President Biden and Dr Jill Biden strengthened their commitment to bring together all stakeholders in the oncology space to reimagine how the government, academia, nonprofits, and the private sector can better organize their resources to improve cancer care. The initiative works closely with patients and patient organizations, cancer researchers, cancer centers, research universities, governments, private and philanthropic sectors, and organizations including the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators to identify and address the critical issues in cancer prevention, research, and care to drive new actions and collaborations to find cures."

[Gregory C. Simon is the President of the Biden Cancer Initiative, as well as the former Executive Director of the White House Cancer Moonshot.]

"JONS: Can you describe the methods to achieve your mission?

Mr Simon: The point of the Biden Cancer Initiative is not to fund projects, interfere with regulatory decisions, or to lobby. We do not give grants, we do not touch patient data, we are not a silo of genomic information. Instead, we’re looking for efficiencies that can be implemented and addressing cultural issues that might be slowing us dow­n— the brakes we are leaving on while we drive the car, so to speak. Our goal is to work with the different organizations to figure out how they can double what they’re doing. When problems arise, we’ll address it by assessing solutions that already exist. We want to enrich the possibilities to scale a ubiquitous solution to a local solution.

We focus on creating the solutions to the problems that we know already exist, elevating collaborations and new efforts that improve patient outcomes and save lives."

http://www.jons-online.com/issues/2019/march-2019-vol-10-no-3/2324-the-biden-cancer-initiative

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lmao everyone actually from the NYC area knows that the NY Post is one step above the National Enquirer.

And a Trump mouthpiece.

[Anonymous]

Wake me up when the Bidens receive a court order to disband their charity and force the board to go through ethics training and ban the board from serving on other boards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Read the underlying documents. The foundation exists to manage and administer grants, not to conduct funding itself. The American Medical Association doesn’t operate a single hospital - so you probably think that’s made-up too.

Fully understood that you’re a Trump Troll but you just have to be smarter than that post.

So they are essentially a small business that use a charitable designation to pay no taxes?

You are at least a consistent moron:

"In establishing the Biden Cancer Initiative, Vice President Biden and Dr Jill Biden strengthened their commitment to bring together all stakeholders in the oncology space to reimagine how the government, academia, nonprofits, and the private sector can better organize their resources to improve cancer care. The initiative works closely with patients and patient organizations, cancer researchers, cancer centers, research universities, governments, private and philanthropic sectors, and organizations including the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators to identify and address the critical issues in cancer prevention, research, and care to drive new actions and collaborations to find cures."

[Gregory C. Simon is the President of the Biden Cancer Initiative, as well as the former Executive Director of the White House Cancer Moonshot.]

"JONS: Can you describe the methods to achieve your mission?

Mr Simon: The point of the Biden Cancer Initiative is not to fund projects, interfere with regulatory decisions, or to lobby. We do not give grants, we do not touch patient data, we are not a silo of genomic information. Instead, we’re looking for efficiencies that can be implemented and addressing cultural issues that might be slowing us dow­n— the brakes we are leaving on while we drive the car, so to speak. Our goal is to work with the different organizations to figure out how they can double what they’re doing. When problems arise, we’ll address it by assessing solutions that already exist. We want to enrich the possibilities to scale a ubiquitous solution to a local solution.

We focus on creating the solutions to the problems that we know already exist, elevating collaborations and new efforts that improve patient outcomes and save lives."

http://www.jons-online.com/issues/2019/march-2019-vol-10-no-3/2324-the-biden-cancer-initiative

It’s very clear, except to morons like you. It’s a scheme to collect and recycle money and avoid taxes like the Clinton foundation and others. I am sure this foundation does a lot of “consulting”

“We want to enrich the possibilities to scale a ubiquitous solution to a local solution.” <———- Code for we do nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Read the underlying documents. The foundation exists to manage and administer grants, not to conduct funding itself. The American Medical Association doesn’t operate a single hospital - so you probably think that’s made-up too.

Fully understood that you’re a Trump Troll but you just have to be smarter than that post.

So they are essentially a small business that use a charitable designation to pay no taxes?

You are at least a consistent moron:

"In establishing the Biden Cancer Initiative, Vice President Biden and Dr Jill Biden strengthened their commitment to bring together all stakeholders in the oncology space to reimagine how the government, academia, nonprofits, and the private sector can better organize their resources to improve cancer care. The initiative works closely with patients and patient organizations, cancer researchers, cancer centers, research universities, governments, private and philanthropic sectors, and organizations including the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators to identify and address the critical issues in cancer prevention, research, and care to drive new actions and collaborations to find cures."

[Gregory C. Simon is the President of the Biden Cancer Initiative, as well as the former Executive Director of the White House Cancer Moonshot.]

"JONS: Can you describe the methods to achieve your mission?

Mr Simon: The point of the Biden Cancer Initiative is not to fund projects, interfere with regulatory decisions, or to lobby. We do not give grants, we do not touch patient data, we are not a silo of genomic information. Instead, we’re looking for efficiencies that can be implemented and addressing cultural issues that might be slowing us dow­n— the brakes we are leaving on while we drive the car, so to speak. Our goal is to work with the different organizations to figure out how they can double what they’re doing. When problems arise, we’ll address it by assessing solutions that already exist. We want to enrich the possibilities to scale a ubiquitous solution to a local solution.

We focus on creating the solutions to the problems that we know already exist, elevating collaborations and new efforts that improve patient outcomes and save lives."

http://www.jons-online.com/issues/2019/march-2019-vol-10-no-3/2324-the-biden-cancer-initiative

I presume they were huge cheerleaders for Trump administration's moves to loosen restrictions on access to experimental therapies , given the above? Maybe they can build on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Read the underlying documents. The foundation exists to manage and administer grants, not to conduct funding itself. The American Medical Association doesn’t operate a single hospital - so you probably think that’s made-up too.

Fully understood that you’re a Trump Troll but you just have to be smarter than that post.

So they are essentially a small business that use a charitable designation to pay no taxes?

You are at least a consistent moron:

"In establishing the Biden Cancer Initiative, Vice President Biden and Dr Jill Biden strengthened their commitment to bring together all stakeholders in the oncology space to reimagine how the government, academia, nonprofits, and the private sector can better organize their resources to improve cancer care. The initiative works closely with patients and patient organizations, cancer researchers, cancer centers, research universities, governments, private and philanthropic sectors, and organizations including the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators to identify and address the critical issues in cancer prevention, research, and care to drive new actions and collaborations to find cures."

[Gregory C. Simon is the President of the Biden Cancer Initiative, as well as the former Executive Director of the White House Cancer Moonshot.]

"JONS: Can you describe the methods to achieve your mission?

Mr Simon: The point of the Biden Cancer Initiative is not to fund projects, interfere with regulatory decisions, or to lobby. We do not give grants, we do not touch patient data, we are not a silo of genomic information. Instead, we’re looking for efficiencies that can be implemented and addressing cultural issues that might be slowing us dow­n— the brakes we are leaving on while we drive the car, so to speak. Our goal is to work with the different organizations to figure out how they can double what they’re doing. When problems arise, we’ll address it by assessing solutions that already exist. We want to enrich the possibilities to scale a ubiquitous solution to a local solution.

We focus on creating the solutions to the problems that we know already exist, elevating collaborations and new efforts that improve patient outcomes and save lives."

http://www.jons-online.com/issues/2019/march-2019-vol-10-no-3/2324-the-biden-cancer-initiative

I love Biden, but this indeed looks like elitist gobblygook without a concrete example of something they have done. Can they give an example of an efficiency they have found?