Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has a troubling pattern of introducing legislation favored by major institutions in corporate America around the same they make large contributions to her campaign.
The revelations are detailed in Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite—a new book by Peter Schweizer, a senior contributor at Breitbart News and president of the Government Accountability Institute.
Klobuchar: Trump Supporters Fail a ‘Decency Check’, ‘Patriotism Check’
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Ahead of the New Hampshire primary, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) doubled down on questioning the patriotism and decency of President Donald Trump’s supporters.
Klobuchar on Monday told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the 2020 election is not just about an economic check, but also a “decency check” on Trump and a “patriotism check.”
“I have always had strong support from independent voters. I get this. I think this election isn’t just an economic check, which is what most of our debates are. It’s also a decency check on this president. It’s a patriotism check,” advised Klobuchar.
During a campaign rally Saturday in New Hampshire, Klobuchar shared similar remarks.
“This election is a patriotism check. It’s a decency check on this president,” she told rally attendees. “And what unites us more than anything is that we know that the heart of America is bigger than the heart of the guy in the White House.”
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Amy Klobuchar, endorsed by New York Times, denounced for
railroading black teenager to prison for life
3
February 2020
Amy Klobuchar is the senior US senator from Minnesota and a
candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, having received the
endorsement in January of the New
York Times (along with Senator Elizabeth Warren of
Massachusetts).
The Times praised
Klobuchar as someone “with an empathy that connects to voters’ lived
experiences, especially in the middle of the country.” The newspaper has
relentlessly promoted identity politics, an obvious factor in its endorsement
of the two female candidates.
In fact,
like Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and, for that matter, Warren herself,
Klobuchar personifies the manner in which gender and racial politics provides a
phony “progressive” veneer to the malicious ambitions of middle class
reactionaries of all colors, ethnicities, genders, and sexual orientations.
Various
polls currently place Klobuchar fifth behind Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete
Buttigieg, and Warren in the Democratic primary race, but she has enjoyed a
certain “surge” recently, the product of considerable promotion by the US media.
As a result, some surveys put her in third place in Iowa on the eve of that
state’s Democratic Party caucuses on Monday.
Now, a
well-researched Associated Press (AP) story suggests that Klobuchar used the
railroading of a black teenager, Myon Burrell, to prison for life as a
springboard for her political career. Klobuchar was then the prosecutor in
Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis.
Various
organizations, including the Minneapolis NAACP, the Racial Justice Network,
Black Lives Matter Twin Cities, and Communities United Against Police
Brutality, have called for Klobuchar to suspend her campaign for president.
In
themselves, the allegations concerning Klobuchar are not astonishing. The
Democratic Party teems with former prosecutors, CIA agents and military
officers, enemies of the working class and the oppressed at home and abroad.
But there is something special and appropriate about the
exposure and possible downfall of the wretched Klobuchar, recently described by
the Times, in
its inimical pompous jargon of deceit and dishonesty, as “the very definition
of Midwestern charisma, grit and sticktoitiveness.”
Klobuchar
has made the death of Tyesha Edwards, an 11-year-old girl killed by a stray
bullet in 2002, and the subsequent conviction of Burrell, central to her
campaign, proving supposedly both her toughness on crime and her sensitivity to
the African American community and the problem of gun violence.
In regard
to the Edwards-Burrell case, the AP explains that it went through more than
1,000 pages of police records, court transcripts and other documents, and
interviewed dozens of inmates, witnesses, and family members.
Summing
up, the AP notes that the case relied heavily “on a teen rival of Burrell’s who
gave conflicting accounts when identifying the shooter, who was largely
obscured behind a wall 120 feet away.” With no other eyewitnesses, the story
continues, “police turned to multiple jailhouse snitches. Some have since
recanted, saying they were coached or coerced. Others were given reduced time,
raising questions about their credibility. And the lead homicide detective
offered ‘major dollars’ for names, even if it was hearsay.”
The AP
goes on: “There was no gun, fingerprints, or DNA. Alibis were never seriously
pursued. Key evidence has gone missing or was never obtained, including a
convenience store surveillance tape that Burrell and others say would have
cleared him.” Burrell, now 33, has rejected all plea deals and insisted on his
innocence.
A
co-defendant, Ike Tyson, insists he was the triggerman: “I already shot an
innocent girl,” said Tyson, serving a 45-year sentence. “Now an innocent guy—at
the time he was a kid—is locked up for something he didn’t do. So, it’s like
I’m carrying two burdens.”
To be
blunt, the conviction and jailing of Burrell was a scandalous state frame-up,
organized by the police and the prosecutors, including, centrally, Klobuchar.
Adding insult to injury, Klobuchar has since attempted to reap
political gain out of the destruction of Burrell and his family. At the Democratic
Party candidates’ debate in Houston in September, Klobuchar bragged about
finding and putting in jail “the killer of a little girl named Tyesha Edwards
who was doing her homework at her kitchen table and was shot through the
window.” Zak Cheney-Rice in New
York magazine suggested that Klobuchar in advertising
Burrell’s case “as a special victory for black safety in Minneapolis … plumbs
new depths.”
Both
Burrell’s father, Michael Toussaint, and Tyesha Edwards’ stepfather, Leonard
Winborn, see through Myon Burrell’s railroading. Toussaint expressed sympathy
for Tyesha: “She didn't deserve to die … This is a child, studying at her
table.” But he also wanted justice for his son, “a young man, just 16 years old
... convicted of a case that he didn't do.”
Explaining
why he and others were demanding that Klobuchar suspend her presidential
effort, Toussaint argued that “Amy used my son’s case” in her campaign.
Toussaint said Klobuchar wanted a political advantage.
Winborn told the Minnesota
Spokesman-Recorder: “If that man [Burrell] hasn’t done nothing,
then he doesn’t need to be in there at all … Whatever happens, I would never
want to see somebody do some time for somebody else’s wrongdoing.”
Perceptively,
Winborn also pointed to prosecutor Klobuchar’s political ambitions at the time:
“Looking at it right now, it was an elevation thing … I know all the players. I
think my family got hoodwinked.”
One publication notes that Klobuchar “is the most unapologetic
hawk of the senators in the [Democratic Party] race.” It adds: “She has voted
for all but one, or 95 percent, of the military spending bills since 2013…
Klobuchar supported the US-NATO-led regime change war in Libya in 2011, and her
public statements suggest that her main condition for the US use of military
force anywhere is that US allies also take part, as in Libya … Klobuchar
received $17,704 in ‘defense’
industry contributions for her 2018 reelection campaign.”
The
Minnesota senator is a slavish supporter of Israeli violence against the
Palestinians and an eager participant in the McCarthyite anti-Russia campaign,
being one of six Democratic senators who introduced legislation in 2017 that
would have created an independent counsel with the ability to probe potential
Russian cyber attacks on political systems and investigate efforts by Russians
to “interfere” in American elections.
The New
York Times did not endorse her despite this
reactionary record, but because of
it. This “standard bearer for the Democratic center,” lyricized the Times, whose “vision goes
beyond the incremental,” had “the best chance to enact many progressive plans.”
Given the most recent turn of events, the Times ’ observation that
Klobuchar’s “more recent legislative accomplishments are narrower but
meaningful to those affected, especially the legislation aimed at helping crime
victims,” which “is not surprising given her background as the chief prosecutor
in Minnesota’s most populous county,” is especially cynical.
The notion that Klobuchar must represent something progressive
because of her gender should be an insult to the public intelligence by now. In
April 2019, the New
Republic, one of the unpleasant voices of self-satisfied,
upper-middle class public opinion in the US, described the then-group of
Democratic female presidential candidates, including Klobuchar—who were
“already making history” and who represented “a profound shift in the political
landscape”—as “Women of Substance.”
In fact, Klobuchar is something well known and horribly insubstantial — an unscrupulous big
business politician, who, like Clinton and the rest of the Democratic Party
hierarchy, would think nothing of climbing over heaps of bodies to make
her career.
Hypocritical, conventional and cruel, Klobuchar might well step
out of the pages of Main
Street, Babbitt, It Can’t Happen Here or another of the novels
of Sinclair Lewis, the Minnesota-born American author and social critic.
But in her role as ruthless and striving prosecutor, she may
most closely resemble Orville W. Mason, the district attorney in Theodore
Dreiser’s An American
Tragedy, who anticipates a murder trial in the light of the
“prominence and publicity with which his own activities in connection with this
were very likely to be laden!”
Dreiser
continues: “At once he got up, energetically stirred. If he could only catch
such a reptilian criminal, and that in the face of all the sentiment that such
a brutal murder was likely to inspire! The August convention and nominations.
The fall election.”
This is
the Democratic Party. This is contemporary American politics, including its
utterly fraudulent “identity politics” wing, which has nothing remotely
progressive about it.
Klobuchar
Received Thousands from Corporations While Introducing Legislation That
Benefited Them
Sen. Amy Klobuchar
(D-MN) has a troubling pattern of introducing legislation favored by major
institutions in corporate America around the same they make large contributions
to her campaign.
The revelations are detailed
in Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by
America’s Progressive Elite—a new book by
Peter Schweizer, a senior contributor at Breitbart News and president of the
Government Accountability Institute.
As a senior member of the Senate
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Klobuchar is uniquely situated
to impact the bottomline of corporate interests. Unlike her more progressive
rivals, like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Klobuchar
has not been reflexively opposed to such interests. Rather, as Schweizer
details, the Minnesota Democrat has become particularly adept at using her
legislative powers not only to benefit corporate institutions, but herself as
well.
A prime example of this occurred in
May 2011 when Klobuchar introduced legislation to deter internet piracy.
Although Klobuchar was first-term senator mainly known her being “Minnesota
nice,” the bill sparked widespread controversy
The legislation’s critics alleged it
was draconian, pointing to a provision in the bill that made it a felony to
illegally stream TV shows or films off the internet. One of the most prominent
critics, the pop star Justin Bieber, even suggested that Klobuchar was the one
who deserved to be “locked up” for proposing such a strict law.
The response from the entertainment
industry, though, was exactly the opposite. Many industry executives not only
lined up behind the bill, but it seems that many had already begun favoring
Klobuchar even before its introduction.
“In the ninety days before she introduced the bill, something
unusual started happening,” Schweizer writes. “Over a one-week period in February,
seven executives from 20th Century Fox sent her donations. Three more wrote her
checks in March.”
Other entertainment industry giants quickly followed suit.
Warner Bros., which would have reaped huge benefits from the proposed
anti-piracy law, donated $20,000 through its political action committee.
Soon afterwards, no fewer than 15 of its executives donated thousands to
Klobuchar. Individuals associated with the Motion Picture Association of
America and Comcast similarly made large-scale donations in the weeks leading
up to the bill’s introduction.
“In all, the entertainment industry sent her more than $80,000,
a flow of cash she had not experienced before; all of it was collected in the
brief period before she introduced the bill,” Schweizer notes.
That troubling pattern has been on display throughout most of
Klobuchar’s tenure in the United States Senate. In 2011 and 2017, respectively,
Klobuchar’s campaign coffers saw a flood of incoming donations from Xcel
Energy, a Minnesota-based utility holding company.
The money would not have drawn much scrutiny if not for it
arriving in what appeared to be a coordinated fashion.
“At the end of September 2011, over a six-day period, no fewer
than twenty-one executives from Xcel Energy wrote campaign checks to
Klobuchar,” Schweizer writes. “Weeks earlier, Klobuchar introduced legislation
… to give a ‘renewable electricity integration’ [tax] credit to utility
companies.
If enacted, the legislation would have allowed companies like
Excel to claim thousands if not millions of dollars in federal tax credits for
producing renewable energy.
Likewise, Klobuchar’s decision to co-sponsor the Clean Energy
for America Act in May 2017, coincided with another surge of campaign donations
from Exel’s executives.
“Beginning at the end of May 2017 over a ten-day period,
twenty-eight executives from Xcel Energy sent her contributions totaling
$12,500,” Schweizer writes.
The bill, if passed, would have extensively expanded the tax
credits available to energy companies.
Klobuchar’s intermingling of legislative prowess and campaign
finance has made her a powerhouse fundraiser among Senate Democrats. In her
most recent reelection in 2018, she raised more than $17 million—thirty-eight
times the amount brought in by her Republican opponent. The astronomical sum
was made possible by Klobuchar’s strong backing from corporate America and
their special interest representatives in Washington, D.C.
“She took in donations from the CEOs of eleven of Minnesota’s
twenty-five largest corporations,” Schweizer writes. Klobuchar “has done
particularly well with law firms and lobbyists—they have donated more than $3
million to her three Senate races.”
The revelations posed in Profiles in Corruption emerge
as Kolobuchar’s 2020 campaign picks up steam, buoyed by a high-profile endorsement by The
New York Times.
In announcing its endorsement
the Times lauded
Klobuchar for her legislative accomplishments, arguing she was “most productive
senator among the Democratic field in terms of bills passed with bipartisan
support.”
As Schweizer shows, however, those accomplishments often
resulted in mutual benefit for the senator as well as the corporations donating
to her campaign.
Schweizer:
Warren, Klobuchar Have ‘Cashed in’ from Corruption
21 Jan 202023
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Author Peter Schweizer on
Tuesday’s “Fox & Friends” discussed his new book, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive
Elite, which offers a look into some of
the shady dealings of the United States’ political leaders.
After detailing the corruption seen
among former Vice President Joe Biden and his family, Schweizer described how
his fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Elizabeth Warren
(D-MA) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) had “cashed in” from corruption.
Schweizer said there is a
“three-layer cake of corruption” with Warren.
“[Warren] was actually a government
consultant paid by the U.S. Congress in the 1990s to rewrite our bankruptcy
laws,” Schweizer outlined. “OK, that’s all fine and good, but she did the
typical Washington crony move: She cashed in. After she rewrote those
laws, what did she do? She went to the corporations who would benefit from the
law and said, ‘Hire me, and I will help you interpret the law that I myself
wrote.’ And she made millions of dollars doing that.”
He continued, “She’s also got a
daughter who set up a business. She was setting up that business while
Elizabeth Warren was head of the TARP Oversight Committee, and what ends up
happening is the daughter gets her business financed and gets advisors from the
very investment banks that Elizabeth Warren’s TARP Committee was bailing out.”
Schweizer said Klobuchar has
“mastered the art of shaking down contributors and then pushing their
legislation.”
He stated, “[Klobuchar] was a
prosecutor before she was a U.S. Senator — very selective, did not go after
people that were donors of hers, who were clearly engaged in corruption. And as
a U.S. Senator, she has mastered the art of shaking down contributors and then
pushing their legislation. There are instances where dozens of executives from
a corporation over a three-day period will give her the donation, and then
literally a few days later, she introduces legislation on their behalf.”
Amy
Klobuchar Selectively Prosecuted White-Collar Crimes, Failed to Pursue Massive
Ponzi Scheme—Despite Evidence
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
selectively enforced the law regarding financial crimes as a local prosecutor,
often to the benefit of friends and political allies.
The bombshell revelations are
detailed in Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive
Elite—a new book by Peter Schweizer, a
senior contributor at Breitbart News and president of the Government Accountability
Institute.
Klobuchar cut a profile as a
tough-on-crime prosecutor during her tenure as the chief legal officer of
Minnesota’s most populous county in the early 2000s. Not only did she push for
locking up more juvenile offenders, but she was also a leading exponent of the
“broken windows” theory of policing.
“What I’ve heard again and again is
that no crime is a small crime and that we must enforce the law down the line,”
she wrote in a policy paper at the
time.
Left unsaid, though, is that certain
“small” crimes were more likely to warrant prosecution than others, especially
depending on one’s personal connection to Klobuchar. As Profiles in Corruption notes,
that inequitable approach was nowhere more apparent than “white-collar” crimes.
While Klobuchar aggressively pursued
small actors, like airline pilots not paying state income taxes or a home
remodeler upcharging his clients, bigger and more nefarious financial crimes
were ignored.
“But the largest financial fraud by
far in her jurisdiction involved a massive conspiracy that she never even
appeared to investigate, despite plenty of warning signs,” Schweizer writes.
“It involved the second-largest Ponzi scheme in American history to date.”
The man at the center of the crime
was Tom Petters, a Minnesota philanthropist and longtime Democrat campaign
donor. Petters, who counted among his friends not only Klobuchar, but also
former Vice President Walter Mondale, operated a series of shady investment
funds.
Between 1998 and 2008, roughly the
years spanning Klobuchar’s tenure as prosecutor, Petters raised nearly $4
billion for his hedge funds. More of than not, individuals entrusting him with
their money would never see a penny of their investment returned.
As Schweizer elaborates, there were
plenty of warning signs that something was off. Petters was consistently facing
legal troubles, either from clients he had failed to repay or from his own
improper conduct, like writing bad checks. More troubling, however, was the
fact that his business associates kept getting convicted of wrongdoing, often
by Klobuchar herself.
“In January 1999, just weeks into
her tenure, potential evidence of the Ponzi scheme began to cross her desk,”
Schweizer writes. “Officers from her office raided the home of Richard Hettler
and Ruth Kahn. They were Petters investors.”
Documents seized during the raid
reportedly implicated Petters in a “mutually beneficial and highly illegal
financial scheme.” Despite securing convictions for both Hettler and Khan,
Klobuchar seemed to make no attempt to move against Petters or “apparently even
investigate” his part in the matter.
Klobuchar’s unwillingness to look
into Petters coincided with a time their professional relationship was
flourishing.
When Klobuchar first ran for county
attorney in 1998, Petters and his associates only donated $8,500 to her
campaign. By the time she was running for the United States Senate in 2006,
Petters had emerged as one of Klobuchar’s most prolific financial backers.
During that campaign alone, the Ponzi scheme operator donated more than $120,000, earning him the
designation of being one of Klobuchar’s single largest campaign contributors.
The donations also seemed to signal
a strong personal relationship. When the FBI finally caught up to the illegal
operation and raided Petters’ office and home in 2008, he admitted on a
wire-tap recording that Klobuchar had called him in the aftermath. Even though
the confines of that conversation were never made public, the events that
followed seemed to indicate Klobuchar was sympathetic to the plight of her
longtime donor.
“Reportedly Klobuchar’s aides
suggested a close family friend, Doug Kelley … provide legal help,” Schweizer
writes. “Kelley had been a longtime friend of Klobuchar’s father, both as a
lawyer to help him with legal issues and as a mountain-climbing partner.”
Ultimately, Kelley was unable to
make much of a difference. Petters’ fate seemed to be sealed as soon as court
proceedings began, especially when law enforcement and judicial officers
expressed disbelief that he was able to operate for so long with so many red
flags.
“But, it looks to me like [Petters]
had friends in high places,” Garrett Vail, an attorney who initially worked on
case against Kuhn in 1999, told the Daily Caller. “The
only way he ran a $3 billion Ponzi scheme was [that] he had politicians in his
pocket.”
In December 2009, Petters was
convicted on 20 different counts of mail fraud, money laundering, and wire
fraud. He was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison for defrauding
investors of more than $3.7 billion.
Klobuchar, for her part, escaped the
situation relatively unscathed. The senator was reelected overwhelmingly in
2012, despite attempts by her Republican challenger to make Petters an issue.
Reelected again in 2018, Klobuchar is now vying for the Democrat presidential
nomination on a platform that relies heavily on her accomplishments in public
office.
Those accomplishments, however, only
underscore Klobuchar’s selective approach to exercising political power,
as Profiles in Corruption exposes.
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
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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.
Report:
Ilhan Omar Paid over $500,000 to Alleged Lover’s Firm
2 Feb 202010
2:50
The
Washington Free Beacon reported Saturday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)’s
congressional campaign paid over $500,000 in 2019 to a firm run by her alleged
boyfriend, political consultant Timothy Mynett.
The Free
Beacon, citing FEC campaign filings,
noted that Omar’s campaign apparently paid the E Street Group $215,000 in
the fourth quarter of 2019, bringing the total paid to the firm to $525,000
last year.
Omar filed
for divorce in October from her husband, Ahmed Hirsi, after reports of the
affair surfaced. Her filing, the Washington
Post reported, did not mention an affair.
But divorce filings from Mynett’s wife did allege an affair, though both Omar
and Mynett denied the allegations, the Post reported.
As
Breitbart News noted in
October, the UK Daily Mail reported last fall that Omar and Mynett
had been spotted together.
Omar’s
marriage to Hirsi was already the subject of controversy. A state ethics board
investigating campaign finance violations found that
Omar had filed taxes jointly in 2014 and 2015 with Hirsi while legally
married to another man, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. She claimed that she married
Hirsi in a religious ceremony in 2002, and the two have children together,
though they never married legally until after she divorced Elmi.
David
Sternberg alleged at the Powerline blog last
year that Elmi is Omar’s brother, and that she was brought to the U.S. as a
refugee by another family, using their surname instead of her own.
Omar is a member of the so-called
“Squad,” a diverse left-wing group of first-term women in Congress that has
clashed both with party leadership and President Donald Trump.
She endorsed Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for president last year, declaring that he would fight
against “western imperialism.” She also backs radical boycotts of Israel and
triggered a political crisis last year with several antisemitic comments.
Joel B.
Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social
Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a
J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak
Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How
Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from
Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
‘Profiles
in Corruption’ Hits #1 on NYT Bestseller List
8 Feb 20201,554
3:01
The bombshell investigatory
blockbuster Profiles in
Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite has hit number
one on the New York Times bestseller list.
Profiles in Corruption, based on over a year
and a half of research by Breitbart News senior contributor and Government
Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer and his team of
investigators, details the past conduct and little-known ties of several prominent
progressive leaders. Those include former Vice President Joe Biden, Mayor Eric
Garcetti, and Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker
(D-NJ), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Sherrod Brown
(D-OH).
The revelations
in Schweizer’s investigative work are backed by 1,126 endnotes,
totaling 83 pages of source material. Some of those revelations include:
- Joe
Biden’s Brother Frank Linked to Projects Receiving $54,000,000 in Taxpayer
Loans from the Obama Administration—Despite No Experience by Haris Alic
- Hunter
Biden’s Firms Scored Reportedly Hundreds of Millions from Russians,
Chinese, and Kazakhs by Kristina Wong
- Elizabeth
Warren Made Millions Helping Corporations Evade Their Pension and
Healthcare Obligations by Hannah Bleau
- Amy
Klobuchar Selectively Prosecuted White-Collar Crimes, Failed to Pursue
Massive Ponzi Scheme—Despite Evidence by Haris Alic
- Book
Bombshell: James Biden’s Firm Got $1.5 Billion in Government Contracts
Despite Zero Experience by Haris Alic
- Joe
Biden’s Sister Valerie Sent Millions of Joe’s Campaign Dollars to Her Own
Consulting Firm by Hannah Bleau
- Book
Bombshell: Start-up Linked to Hunter Biden’s Firm Bagged $3 Million from
Government Program Run by Biden Adviser by Haris Alic
- Elizabeth
Warren’s Daughter Amelia Piggybacked off Mom to Cash In on Corporate
Contracts by
Hannah Bleau
- Klobuchar
Received Thousands from Corporations While Introducing Legislation That
Benefitted Them by Haris Alic
- Breaking
Bombshell: Elizabeth Warren’s Son-in-Law Produced Film Funded by Iranian
Government by Kristina Wong
- ‘I
Don’t Believe in Charities’: Book Exposes Bernie Sanders’ Beef Against
Charities by
Hannah Bleau
- Joe
Biden Helped Launch Business for Son-in-Law from the Oval Office,
Repeatedly Briefed Investors Privately by Haris Alic
Profiles
in Corruption edged
out A Very Stable Genius on
the New York Times bestseller
list, which was penned by two Washington
Post reporters.
Establishment
media TV outlets have largely ignored the findings exposed in Profiles in Corruption and have failed to
question the presidential candidates covered in the book on their past conduct.
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