The Chinese haven’t bought just our politicians.
It would be interesting to have a pricing sheet.
For example, I figure that Biden’s fee is only 5 to 10 million bucks a year. I reach that by figuring that the management fee for the 1.5 billion Chinese government venture fee might be 1 to 2%, say 20 to 25 million. Hunter Biden’s company is on the board, but it isn’t the whole board, or the decision maker. Maybe 10 to 15 million flows to his company, but he has expenses and partners. So I figure 5 to 10 million, tops, went to Hunter.
The Harvard Professor who was getting paid on-shore and off-shore money to set up a nanomaterials lab in Wuhan which had some biological implications was getting a few hundred thousand off the books, plus research money into his lab.
I think news-touts come much, much more cheaply.
That’s what it costs to annually bribe an ex-VP who has some probability of becoming President, and a lot of residual influence and connections.
Maybe I should consider contributing to my Congressman ... just in case I need him to answer my phone call. Unfortunately, I’m in MA, and I’d have to swallow deeply to do any business with him.
Precisely.
When African swine fever was being discussed, I never heard objections