NIH investigates Biden last-minute $89 billion grant to ‘seemingly dormant’ University of California nonprofit - Matt Lamb

Nonprofit founded in 2022, never raised nor spent a dime

The National Institutes of Health will look into an $89 billion, 25-year grant awarded to the Alliance for Advancing Biomedical Research in the last days of President Joe Biden’s administration.

• The nonprofit “operate[s] exclusively for the benefit of” the University of California system, according to its tax filings. 
• However, the nonprofit, formed in 2022, has never raised a dime nor spent a dime.
• “Even worse, the money would have flowed to an organization that can’t clearly protect itself from adversaries like China,” Sen. Grassley said...

The Free Beacon reported further:
Grassley also said he was concerned about the University of California’s well-documented failure to protect its labs from security breaches by China’s government.

“It has been reported that between 1987 and 2021, at least 162 scientists who had worked at Los Alamos [National Laboratory] returned to China to support a variety of domestic research and development programs, including at least 59 who were involved with China’s talent programs,” Grassley wrote [in a letter to the NIH]...