The Brookings Institution has put its president, former Marine Gen. John Allen, on administrative leave after an AP report said there is a federal investigation into his role in a foreign lobbying campaign on behalf of Qatar.
informed employees of Allen's leave in an email Wednesday that was obtained by Axios. Brookings stressed to its workers that the organization is not under investigation.
Allen, who led U.S. and NATO forces in War in Afghanistan, has been president of Brookings since 2017.As a result of the investigation, Richard Olson, a former ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan, pleaded illegal foreign lobbying on behalf of Qatar last week, according toThe FBI alleged in an affidavit supporting the search warrant to claim Allen's data that "substantial evidence" suggested that he knowingly broke foreign lobbying laws.
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