Ashley Biden has triggered an IRS investigation after she failed to disclose donations to her charity from wealthy benefactors, including Meghan Markle.
Women’s Wellness Spa(ce), the nonprofit run by former President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley, underreported its income by six figures, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
Ashley Biden, a social worker who wrote about childhood trauma in an infamous diary, started the nonprofit to help women with mental health struggles.
The conservative National Legal and Policy Center flagged a $500,000 discrepancy in the group’s IRS filings.
Despite reporting an income of $170,296 in 2023, Biden’s charity received $250,000 grants from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell Foundation and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Biden’s nonprofit began in 2023, while her father was still president.
However, like many other Biden family projects, Women’s Wellness Spa(ce) has raised concerns about influence peddling.
Paul Kamenar, a lawyer with the National Legal and Policy Center, told the Washington Free Beacon:
“Ashley Biden’s failure to disclose to the IRS receiving $500,000 in grants in 2023 raises the question of what other contributions is she hiding.”
An accountant for the charity told the Free Beacon that most of the $500,000 was not distributed until 2024.
However, according to Kamenar, Biden’s group is required to report donations when they are pledged, not when they are actually received.
Ashley Biden settled a $5,000 tax bill last year that dated back to 2015.
She is not the only member of her family with tax woes, however.
Her half-brother, Hunter, was facing prison after he pleaded guilty to evading taxes on over $1.4 million that he received from his international business deals.
Nevertheless, President Biden wiped the slate clean with a controversial blanket pardon.
Ashley, the only child of Biden and his second wife Jill, was one of the only family members who did not receive a pardon from former president before he left office, the Free Beacon noted.
While Ashley Biden has received comparatively little publicity compared to Hunter, the infamous theft of her diary led to scrutiny of her unusual family life.
In the book, Biden wrote about “showers with dad” and being “sexualized” at a young age.
She noted that these incidents had likely had a long-lasting impact on her adult life, such as drink and drug addictions.
Ashley Biden’s nonprofit bills itself as a “trauma-informed wellness center.”
However, the group’s online presence is marginal outside of an Instagram account that has not posted anything since February.
The charity claims to offer guided meditation and psychotherapeutic treatments like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Ashley Biden says she used these treatments after her half-brother Beau died from brain cancer.
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