Biden nominee Vanita Gupta / Getty Images Matthew Foldi • April 16, 2021 4:58 am
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Hiring Vanita Gupta has come with an added perk for her employers: hundreds of thousands of dollars from her wealthy chemical executive father.
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Washington Free Beacon review of financial documents found Rajiv Gupta’s Ujala Foundation donated $50,000 to the ACLU the same year his daughter, now President Joe Biden's nominee for the number-three position at the Department of Justice, was promoted to a management position. Over the next decade, hundreds of thousands of dollars in Ujala donations carefully tracked Vanita Gupta's employment record.
Among the foundation’s first major contributions was $50,000 in 2010 to the ACLU, the same year Vanita Gupta was promoted to a leadership position. The Ujala Foundation’s donations totaled $182,500 to the ACLU while Vanita worked there, including installments of $50,000 in 2010, $50,000 in 2011, $40,000 in 2012, and $42,500 in 2013. Its donations ceased once Vanita left in 2014 to join the Obama administration.