Dept. of Ed Hits Colleges for Hiding Foreign Cash; Georgetown, Texas A&M Got Hundreds Millions $

The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into foreign cash secretly flowing into U.S. universities, the Daily Caller website reports today (June 16, 2019).

Almost all of the colleges contracted to shape U.S. textbooks on the Middle East received massive funding from countries in the region.

At the top of the list are Georgetown University and Texas A&M, which have taken hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar, a Middle Eastern nation with links to international terrorism.

Both universities received letters from the Department of Education on June 13 saying they should have disclosed that funding. The letters also warned that they could be referred to the U.S. attorney general to "compel compliance."