Biden was enriching more family members than just Hunter
On January 21, Peter Schweizer’s newest book, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite, will be released. It should sell well given that pre-sales have already put it at #14 on the Amazon charts. As a preview of coming attractions, the New York Post published an extract from the book detailing “How five members of Joe Biden’s family got rich through his connections.”
According to Schwiezer, Biden was fibbing when he announced last year, “I never talked with my son or my brother or anyone else — even distant family — about their business interests. Period.” The truth is that Biden’s business conversations not only benefited Hunter, they also benefitted Biden’s son-in-law Howard, his brothers James and Frank, and his sister Valerie. Loose lips enrich sibs.
James Biden was a welcome friend in the Obama White House. “Sometimes, James’ White House visits dovetailed with his overseas business dealings, and his commercial opportunities flourished during his brother’s tenure as vice president.” For example, just three weeks after Biden’s longtime friend Kevin Justice, president of HillStone International, a subsidiary of a huge construction management firm, visited the White House, HillStone announced that James Biden was its new Executive Vice President.
No one cared that Biden had no experience in construction management. What might have mattered was that, six months later, the firm got a contract to build 100,000 homes in Iraq, plus a $22 million U.S. federal government contract to manage a State Department project. An executive in the parent company later told investors it helped to have the vice president’s brother as a partner.
The book excerpt also tells how Hunter -- a man known for drugs, alcohol, taking up with his brother’s widow, fathering a child on a stripper, dumping the stripper and his child, and marrying another woman –made bank in Ukraine thanks to his father’s connections. It’s a complicated, unsavory story, but the bottom line is the same as for James: Hunter got an immensely profitable job for which he was completely unqualified because Biden allowed Hunter to piggyback off of Biden’s connections.
When it came to his kids, Biden didn’t stop with Hunter. His daughter, Ashley, married a doctor, Howard Krein. Howard and his siblings open StartUp Health, an investment consultancy firm. In 2011, when the firm had just opened, two of the firm’s executives were invited to meet with Obama and Biden. The next day, this barely hatched entity hit the big time:
The following day the new company would be featured at a large health care tech conference being run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and StartUp Health executives became regular visitors to the White House, attending events in 2011, 2014 and 2015.How did StartUp Health gain access to the highest levels of power in Washington? There was nothing particularly unique about the company, but for this:The chief medical officer of StartUp Health, Howard Krein, is married to Joe Biden’s youngest daughter, Ashley.
For years after, including his years in the White House, Biden made a point of promoting the company.
James also wasn’t the only one of his siblings Biden helped. In March 2009, Biden went to Costa Rica. The last time a high-ranking American official went to Costa Rica was in 1997 when Bill Clinton traveled there. Biden’s trip may not have been a coincidence:
Joe Biden’s trip to Costa Rica came at a fortuitous time for his brother Frank, who was busy working deals in the country. Just months after Vice President Biden’s visit, in August, Costa Rica News announced a new multilateral partnership “to reform Real Estate in Latin America” between Frank Biden, a developer named Craig Williamson, and the Guanacaste Country Club, a newly planned resort.[snip]As it happened, Joe Biden had been asked by President Obama to act as the Administration’s point man in Latin America and the Caribbean.Frank’s vision for a country club in Costa Rica received support from the highest levels of the Costa Rican government— despite his lack of experience in building such developments. He met with the Costa Rican ministers of education and energy and environment, as well as the president of the country.
The same amazing coincidences played out with Biden’s sister Valerie, to whom his campaigns ended up paying $2.5 million in consulting fees in 2008 alone.
Considering that the New York Post article is merely a short excerpt from Peter Schweizer’s Profiles in Corruption, readers can expect to be exposed to a massive, but readable data dump, explaining how taxpayer funds and political connections have been funding the lifestyles of the rich and progressive.
The list of predicate crimes is extensive and includes bribery,
embezzlement, fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
Secretary Hillary Clinton and the Deep State: A RICO Criminal
Conspiracy
We who elected President Trump
understood our elected officials and the Deep State were sandbagging Trump and self-dealing public funds.
It was no secret that President Trump is no angel, unpresidential, blunt, and
crude, and a disruptor. Trump was hired to drain the swamp.
I watched this kabuki theater unfold over the last several
years. Through my eyes as a shopworn gumshoe, I will explain what is happening.
My investigative curiosity was first piqued by the ATF Fast and Furious scandal
and continues through the recent House impeachment show trial. There is a
common element running through all of these cons — the
actions of an organized crime conspiracy. A group of people either
acting alone or in concert with others committed crimes with a common purpose -
a criminal enterprise as described in "CRIMINAL RICO: 18 USC. §§1961-1968 A
Manual For Federal Prosecutors."
The players acted together – in the
usurpation of power, the abuse of power by public officials, bribery, thefts by
fraud including federal funds, money laundering, perjury and the obstruction of
justice, the violations of fundamental of civil rights, aided and abetted in
the commission of these crimes and or to conceal these crimes. Criminals will
lie and can't keep their lies straight. Their methods and behaviors are the
same, whether engaging in street crimes or elaborate white-collar financial
schemes. The only difference is when more money is involved, the perps are more
adept in concealing, covering up their sins, and hiding where the money went.
Many of these scandals are well known to the American Thinker readers.
I will focus my comments on Hillary's home brew sever and the Clinton
Foundation as an example of how RICO can be used to prosecute the players.
FBI Director James Comey indicted
Hillary Clinton for her home brew server at his press conference. Comey then egregiously
concluded that there was no evidence of criminal intent purportedly “required”
to prosecute. Comey bastardized the Federal Espionage Act in absolving Hillary Clinton. FBI's
investigation of Clinton's emails was low-balled. There was never a real search
for the truth. The outcome was preordained. My jaw dropped wide open. I knew
the fix was in. FBI Director Comey lied to the people with a straight face.
Why?
The chance meeting of Bill Clinton
and AG Loretta Lynch on the airport tarmac was no mere coincidence. This chat
was not about the grandkids. Bill Clinton was there to convey a specific
message to Lynch that there would be no indictment of Hillary. Hillary
Clinton's email case must tank. This would have constituted bribery, if AG Lynch was
assured she would continue as AG in Clinton Administration. This meeting
took place only weeks before Comey's press conference dumping Hillary Clinton's
email case.
The Deep State needed Hillary Clinton
to win the 2016 presidential election, or the dike holding back the truth would
burst. Trump, the disruptor, was an immediate threat to both the Republicans,
Democrats, and the Deep State. If the truth
were laid bare, it would expose the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, the
Senate and House, and many executive departments for these abuses of power,
corruption, bribery, frauds, and thefts of public funds.
High-level government officials and
the Deep State committed many serious felonies either in furtherance of or to
conceal the crimes committed in the pay to play scam. In
exchange for favorable consideration by Secretary Clinton, those who benefited
would donate to the Clinton Foundation. The FBI started and
stopped investigations into the Clinton Foundation at least twice as reported
by the Washington Post. Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is the most damning. Dinesh D'Souza slammed the Foundation
in the National Review, as did The Federalist.
The status of the investigation of the Foundation by US
Attorney John Huber's is unknown. Rudy Giuliani said there was enough to
pursue "Clinton Inc" as
racketeering under RICO. The Foundation and its affiliated nonprofits require a real
investigation with an in-depth forensic audit to determine where the money
went. In financial crimes investigation, the prime rule is "follow the
money, honey." Illicit nonprofits have many ways to divert funds by
inflating salaries, expenses, and money laundering.
Illegal nonprofit schemes are
difficult to prosecute without hard evidence and the testimony of insiders. The
motive of Hillary Clinton's use of the home brew server was to conceal emails
from FOIA requests that would provide the hard evidence. Hillary Clinton
destroyed the data on her server and cell phones with the knowledge of the FBI.
It took years for Judicial Watch and others to pry and recover
some of these damning emails from the foot-dragging executive departments that
were complicit and knew what was going on.
RICO initially was used to target mob
families. RICO is also a useful tool to fight white collar conspiracies. They
both have the same hierarchy of low-level crooks led by the top players, linked
together with a common purpose. RICO has tools to squeeze the low-level
operatives to gather evidence to prosecute, jail, and seize assets of the
conspirators. The critical element required is a pattern of criminal
or racketeering activity. This pattern is proved by showing two predicate
crimes were committed within ten years. The list of predicate crimes is extensive and includes
bribery, embezzlement, fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction of
justice. The typical five-year statute of limitations for most federal
felonies is extended to ten years from the last criminal act or acts committed
to conceal the conspiracy, i.e., lying under oath and similar actions to
obstruct justice. The prison sentences are steep. The effect is to cut off the
head of the organization and not just the low-level players.
The criminal activity extends back to
the ATF's Fast and Furious program through the House impeachment show trial to
cover up the illegal acts of the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, the
Department of State, the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA. A telltale sign that
the DOJ under US Attorney General Barr is willing to play hardball and may use
RICO, came when he spoke to the Federalist Society: "Barr accuses liberal 'resistance' of
trying to 'sabotage' Trump." AG Barr said this, "shows FBI launched Trump campaign
investigation on the 'thinnest of suspicions." AG Barr is the new sheriff in town, he wears a
badge, has guns and will travel, can impanel grand juries, indict and arrest
people, and is not limited in his jurisdiction, like DOJ IG Horowitz.
The collective actions of the Deep
State are and were a silent coup to delegitimize a Presidential candidate. Once
elected to impede and resist the duly elected President. The President's law
enforcement and intel agencies were corrupted at the highest level and went
rogue.
Organized crime can't exist without
corrupt law enforcement. As I wrote in a letter to President Trump earlier this
year:
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. . I believe you understand the gravity of the situation and of its importance
to the very survival of our Country as we know it. If the people involved are
not held accountable for their actions, we will be no different than some Third
World Banana Republic.
Failure
to act will destroy our founding principle of the Rule of Law as stated by
President John Adams, "We Are a Nation of Laws, Not of Men" and we
cannot allow a two-tiered justice system to prevail.
Ron Wright is a retired detective from Riverside PD, CA. BA in
political science CSUF, M. Adm. University of Cal, Riverside. Facebook at Ron
T. Cop.
NY Post: ‘Profiles in Corruption’ Reveals How the ‘Biden Five’ Made Millions Off Joe Biden Connections
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Five family members of former Vice President Joe Biden have scored “sweetheart deals” and “favorable access” thanks to their connection to the 2020 Democrat White House candidate, reveals the forthcoming investigative book Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite by five-time New York Times bestselling author and Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer.
The New York Post reports:
The Biden family’s apparent self-enrichment involves no less than five family members: Joe’s son Hunter, son-in-law Howard, brothers James and Frank, and sister Valerie.When this subject came up in 2019, Biden declared, “I never talked with my son or my brother or anyone else — even distant family — about their business interests. Period.”As we will see, this is far from the case…Joe Biden’s younger brother, James, has been an integral part of the family political machine from the earliest days when he served as finance chair of Joe’s 1972 Senate campaign, and the two have remained quite close. After Joe joined the U.S. Senate, he would bring his brother James along on congressional delegation trips to places like Ireland, Rome and Africa.When Joe became vice president, James was a welcomed guest at the White House, securing invitations to such important functions as a state dinner in 2011 and the visit of Pope Francis in 2015. Sometimes, James’ White House visits dovetailed with his overseas business dealings, and his commercial opportunities flourished during his brother’s tenure as vice president.
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