“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat
and
Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy
approaching par with
third-world hell-holes.
This is the way a great country is raided by
its
elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan
The Dam Breaks: Establishment Media Zone in on Biden Family’s Culture of Corruption
5:42
With less than one week before the Iowa caucuses, the establishment media is zeroing in on former Vice President Joe Biden and the culture of corruption that has permeated his immediate family for decades.
On Tuesday, Politico published an in-depth exposé on the financial ties between the former vice president’s younger brother, James, and a high-powered Washington, D.C., lobbyist. According to Politico, James and his wife purchased an acre of land in the U.S. Virgin Islands for $150,000 in May 2005. A year later, James resold a third of that acre to Scott Green, a national security lobbyist who previously served as a Senate staffer for Joe Biden. Green paid $150,000 for the land, even though the tax assessed value was only $38,000.
“In effect, James and [his wife] had gotten their money back while keeping most of the land—recouping their investment in just 12 months,” the outlet reported.
Any money that Green may have lost through the deal was offset when Joe Biden became vice president. In 2010, as Politico notes, Green and members of the lobbying firm he founded, the Lafayette Group, were frequent visitors at the Obama-Biden White House.
That year, Green’s ties to the Biden clan seemed to be especially beneficial. On April 11, 2010, the Lafayette Group was awarded two taxpayer-funded contracts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The contracts, worth a total of $5.8 million, were for support services geared toward developing FEMA’s “communications strategies.”
It remains unclear what involvement Joe Biden had, if any, in the awarding of the contract to the Lafayette Group. What is clear, though, is that three days after Green’s firm received the contracts, he gave James Biden and his wife a $133,300 mortgage on their property in the Virgin Islands.
Politico’s exposé comes after Breitbart News reported last week on a series of revelations from Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite. The book, authored by Peter Schweizer, senior contributor at Breitbart News and president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), offers a detailed account of the ways in which members of the Biden family have benefited from their proximity to power.
In particular, as Schweizer notes, James Biden may have benefited more than most. In 2010, fresh off a disastrous attempt at running a Wall Street hedge fund, James joined HillStone International as executive vice president. The newly founded company was setting out to pursue construction and technology projects, especially those being funded by the U.S. government in Iraq.
Hiring James, who had neither experience in construction nor in international development, seemed to be a big part of the company’s strategy to secure such projects. The strategy, as Profiles in Corruption notes, succeeded.
Six months after James was hired, HillStone received a contract, estimated to be worth upwards of $1.5 billion, to build more than 100,000 homes in Iraq. As a minority partner in the firm, James would have been eligible to split more than $735 million in profits upon the contract’s completion.
Other members of the Biden family did just as well. Joe Biden’s other brother, Frank, benefited from $54 million in taxpayer-backed loans to Caribbean nations heavily involved in real estate and solar power projects he was pursuing in the region. The loans to Frank’s connected projects came through even though he lacked a background in solar energy or international real estate development.
Similarly, the former vice president’s sister, Valerie, received millions in fees during the 2008 election. Valerie, who served as the campaign manager for her brother’s failed presidential campaign that year, paid her own consulting firm, Joe Slade White & Company, $2.5 million for its services.
Schweizer’s book also details the shadowy entities that Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s youngest son partnered with, and how, at times, those investments benefited from government programs run by his father’s advisers.
The revelations within the book have been so explosive that even the mainstream media has been forced to take notice. Last week, an opinion piece published by The New York Times begrudgingly admitted that Schweizer’s book “provides building blocks for scandals involving a number of 2020 Democratic hopefuls.”
Since the Times published the piece, a number of other mainstream outlets have begun digging deeper into the Bidens. Over the weekend, a sighting of Hunter Biden exiting his $129,000 Porsche, with pregnant wife in tow, at the Waldorf Astoria in Los Angles, California, was reported by both outlets on the left and the right. Likewise, new revelations of Hunter’s ongoing paternity suit in Arkansas were covered by CNN and other members of the mainstream media.
The increased publicity seems to be having an impact on the former vice president and his campaign, especially so close to Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucus on February 3. On Monday, the campaign’s rapid response director lashed out at Breitbart News after members of President Donald Trump’s legal team delivered a compelling argument at the Senate impeachment trial regarding the Bidens’ ties to Ukraine.
Joe
Biden’s Sister Valerie Sent Millions of Joe’s Campaign Dollars to Her Own
Consulting Firm
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Senator
Who Employed Chinese Spy Endorses Joe Biden for President
A high-profile U.S. senator with professional and personal ties to
China — including once employing one of its spies — is backing former Vice
President Joe Biden amid mounting questions over his son’s business dealings
with the communist regime.
SYPHONING OFF BRIBES TO FAMILY MEMBERS AS "CONSULTANT
FEES" HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS.
FORMER CA SENATOR BARBARA "BRIBES" BOXER SYPHONED OFF A
VAST FORTUNE OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS TO HER SON, OAKLAND LAWYER DOUGLAS
BOXER.
WHEN THEY TRIED TO CLEAN UP THE SENATE FROM THIS DEVICE OF BRAZEN
CORRUPTION AND INFLUENCE PEDDLING, SENATORS FEINSTEIN AND BOXER VOTED HELL
NO!!!
PELOSI HAS ALSO SYPHONED OFF BRIBES TO HER HUSBAND.
FORMER GOV OF CALIFORNIA GRAY DAVIS SYPHONED OFF $130k TO HIS
WIFE, THE AIRLINE STEWARDESS, IN "CONSULTANT FEES".
THEY DON'T FOOL ANYONE!
Joe
Biden’s Sister Valerie Sent Millions of Joe’s Campaign Dollars to Her Own
Consulting Firm
28 Jan 2020161
4:19
Valerie Biden Owens, the sister
of former vice president Joe Biden (D), who served as the campaign manager for
his past presidential campaigns, directed $2.5 million from “Citizens for
Biden” and “Biden for President Inc.” to her own consulting firm during her
brother’s 2008 presidential bid alone, Breitbart senior contributor and
Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer’s
investigative blockbuster Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive
Elite reveals.
Biden’s political tenure, as Schweizer’s
book extensively details, has largely remained a complicated family affair,
resulting in little-known financial benefits for not just his son Hunter Biden,
but for his sister Valerie.
Her
role as a senior partner in the political messaging firm Slade White &
Company coincided with her participation in Biden’s various political
campaigns. She was only one of two executives – the other being Joe Slade White
– at the firm and has remained the
Executive Vice President for 15 years.
However,
the lines between her role as leading her brother’s political campaigns and
working at the firm blurred, as the firm “received large fees from the Biden
campaigns that Valerie was running,” Profiles
in Corruption reveals:
The firm received large fees from
the Biden campaigns that Valerie was running. Two and a half million dollars in
consulting fees flowed to her firm from Citizens for Biden and Biden For
President Inc. during the 2008 presidential bid alone. Keep in mind that Joe
Slade White & Company worked for Biden campaigns over eighteen years.
The report demonstrates a pattern,
as Schweizer’s book shows, of the complex, albeit largely unknown, dynamics of
the Biden family and the financial benefits reaped, which purportedly stem from
the presidential hopeful’s varying positions in government throughout his life.
“These
are not a few disparate enterprises, but rather moneymaking ventures that
appear to be part of a well-organized family business,” Profiles in Corruption details.
Biden has previously denied,
particularly on the campaign trail, the allegations that his family members
have cashed out in various ways over the course of his political career.
“I’ve never discussed with my son or
my brother, or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses,
period,” Biden told reporters in August 2019 amid further allegations of his
family members using his political leverage for personal gain.
“As we will see, this is an impossibility,
“ Schweizer writes.
The
latest revelation, detailing Valerie’s direction of millions of her brother’s
campaign dollars to her consulting firm, follows the eye-opening discoveries
detailed in Schweizer’s New
York Times #1 bestseller Secret Empires, which effectively “blew the lid
off the Biden-Burisma scandal in Ukraine, wherein Hunter Biden made up to
$83,000 a month with Ukrainian energy giant Burisma as his father led
U.S.-Ukraine policy while vice president,” as Breitbart News detailed.
Profiles in Corruption also exposes “the Biden 5,”
detailing how Hunter Biden’s firms scored business
deals with figures and entities tied to the governments of Russia, China, and
Kazakhstan. It also reveals how Biden’s brothers seemingly benefited from his
political stature. As Schweizer reveals, James Biden’s firm received $1.5 billion in government
contracts despite a lack of experience in the international development
industry. Profiles in
Corruption also details Frank Biden’s connection to projects receiving millions
in taxpayer loans over the course of the Obama administration.
Biden
will continue to face mounting questions surrounding the benefits his family
reaped as a result of his political influence as the Iowa caucuses kick off the
Democrat primary election next week. While he is thought by some to be the
Democrat party frontrunner, the RealClearPolitics average shows Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) slowly closing
the gap. The socialist Sanders has overtaken him in key early state polls over
the last week.
FEINSTEIN
HAS SPENT HER POLITICAL LIFE STALKING THE HALLS OF CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS
THAT PUT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN HER POCKETS.
SHE HAS
AVOIDED PROSECUTION BY VOTING AGAINST ANY ETHICS BILLS AND HER HUSBAND, RICHARD
BLUM'S HANDING OUT "CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION" BRIBES TO EVERY DEMOCRAT
OUT THERE!
IN THE
November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And
so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne
Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior
of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own
ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics experts.
“All in all, it was an
incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red
China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
“Our entire crony
capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy
approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great
country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN
THINKER.com
Senator
Who Employed Chinese Spy Endorses Joe Biden for President
Win
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9 Oct 20192,419
5:44
A high-profile U.S. senator with professional and personal ties to
China — including once employing one of its spies — is backing former Vice
President Joe Biden amid mounting questions over his son’s business dealings
with the communist regime.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a
former chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, announced her
endorsement of the former vice president on Tuesday, claiming to have
witnessed Biden’s “fortitude” and leadership during their overlapping tenures
in Congress.
I’ve worked closely with Vice
President Biden and I’ve seen firsthand his legislative ability, his
statesmanship, and most importantly his moral fortitud. During his time in
Congress and in the White House, Joe Biden has been a tireless fighter for hard
working American families.
The endorsement comes as Biden’s
presidential campaign is besieged by scandal regarding the lucrative business
dealings his youngest son, Hunter, had with foreign governments.
Only hours before Feinstein’s
endorsement, the Chinese government announced it would not
investigate how Hunter Biden ended up at the center of one its top private
equity firms. The Chinese foreign ministry made the decision after President
Donald Trump publicly called for a probe of Hunter Biden’s dealings with Bohai Harvest
RST (BHR). In particular, Trump has noted that the circumstances surrounding
BHR’s creation could have posed a conflict of interest for Joe Biden.
As Peter Schweizer, senior
contributor at Breitbart News, revealed in his bestselling book Secret Empires: How the American Political
Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, Hunter
Biden inked the multibillion-dollar deal that created BHR with a subsidiary of
the state-owned Bank of China in 2013.
The timing of the lucrative deal has
been brought into question as it came only 12 days after Hunter visited China
with his father aboard Air Force Two. Officially, the then-vice president
was visiting the country amid escalating tensions over islands in the South
China Sea and decided to bring his granddaughter and son along. In a March
2018 interview with Breitbart News Tonight,
however, Schweizer detailed the political machinations that preceded Hunter
Biden’s $1.5 billion venture with China:
In December of 2013, Vice President
Joe Biden flies to Asia for a trip, and the centerpiece for that trip is a
visit to Beijing, China. To put this into context, in 2013, the Chinese have
just exerted air rights over the South Pacific, the South China Sea. They
basically have said, ‘If you want to fly in this area, you have to get Chinese
approval. We are claiming sovereignty over this territory.’ Highly
controversial in Japan, in the Philippines, and in other countries. Joe Biden
is supposed to be going there to confront the Chinese. Well, he gets widely
criticized on that trip for going soft on China. For basically not challenging
them, and Japan and other countries are quite upset about this.
Since its creation, BHR has invested
heavily in energy and defense projects across the globe. As of
June, Hunter Biden was still involved with BHR,
sitting on its board of directors and owning a minority stake of the fund
estimated to be worth more than $430,000.
Such dealings at the center of
politics and business, while perhaps not illegal, are not exclusive to the
Biden family alone. As a few noted at the time of Feinstein’s endorsement, the
senator and her husband have their own close ties to the communist country.
During her tenure as mayor of San
Francisco in the late-1970s and early-1980s, Feinstein took advantage of the
newly normalized diplomatic relations between the U.S. and China by
establishing one of the first sister city partnership between San Francisco and
Shanghai. Through that partnership, Feinstein led trade delegations to China in
which she and her husband, Richard Blum, became acquainted with some of the
country’s most prominent political leaders.
As the Federalist noted in August 2018, Feinstein
and her husband leveraged those relationships to boost their own wealth. In
1986, Feinstein and Jiang Zemin — the then-mayor of Shanghai, who would later
ascend to the presidency of the People’s Republic of China — “designated
several corporate entities for fostering commercial relations.” One of those
firms was Shanghai Pacific Partners, which employed Blum as a director. Blum reportedly
had an interest of upwards of $500,000 in a project backed by Shanghai Pacific
Partners.
After Feinstein was elected to the
Senate in 1992, Blum continued profiting off their ties to China. A the same
time, the freshman lawmaker was pitching herself as a “China hand” to
colleagues, even once claiming “that in my
last life maybe I was Chinese.” Through her seat on the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, Feinstein led the fight on a number of initiatives seen as
being favorable to China, including granting the country permanent
most-favored-nation trading status in 2000.
Despite Feinstein and her husband
having a close relationship with Jiang, the Chinese government targeted the senator
as part of its espionage operations. In the early 2000s, the Chinese Ministry
of State Security (MSS) recruited a longtime employee of the senator to gather
information about the inner workings of her congressional and district offices.
Feinstein only learned of the staffer’s duplicity in 2013, after he’d already
been on her payroll for more than 20 years.
“While this person, who was a
liaison to the local Chinese community, was fired, charges were never filed
against him,” Politico reported in 2018,
speculating that because “the staffer was providing political intelligence and
not classified information—making prosecution far more difficult.”
Apart from the convoluted history of
the senator’s ties to China, the political timing of Feinstein’s endorsement
also caught many off guard. The California Democrat, who hosted a
fundraiser on Biden’s behalf last week alongside House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) daughter, is only the most recent figure from the
Democrat establishment to openly pledge support for the former vice president.
Feinstein’s endorsement, however, was not totally expected, especially since
her seamate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), is mounting a bid of her own for the
Democrat nomination. In fact, earlier this year, Feinsten flirted with the
notion of remaining neutral in the 2020 contest out of respect for Harris.
Compounding the political picture is
that most polls show Biden no longer the favorite to win California,
having fallen behind Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
Feinstein, however, did not address
any of that when endorsing the former vice president on Tuesday. Instead, the
senator offered platitudes about Biden’s work to enhance gun control and how
his campaign was a “fight to restore the soul of the nation.”
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