The president of the Brookings Institution has resigned amid an FBI investigation into his alleged role in a foreign lobbying campaign on behalf of Qatar.
Brookings Institution President John Allen at an event in 2018. Photo: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Former Marine Gen. John Allen, the president of the prestigious Brookings Institution, resigned from his post on Sunday amid a federal investigation into his role in a foreign lobbying campaign on behalf of Qatar, Axios has confirmed.last week after the FBI reportedly seized his electronic data for the probe.
In an affidavit supporting the search warrant to claim Allen's data, the FBI alleged that there is "substantial evidence" to suggest Allen knowingly broke foreign lobbying laws.
"The integrity and objectivity of Brookings’s scholarship constitute the institution’s principal assets, and Brookings seeks to maintain high ethical standards in all its operations. Our policies on research independence and integrity reflect these values," they added. "We look forward to working with the entire Brookings community and stakeholders to continue our over one-hundred-year tradition of conducting in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national, and global levels."
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