Posted on 05/13/2019 2:15:52 PM PDT by Red Badger
Former vice president Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden partnered with infamous mobster Whitey Bulger's nephew and former secretary of state John Kerry's stepson for his lucrative business deal with the Bank of China, according to reporter Peter Schweizer's latest book.
Schweizer points to the business deal with state-owned Bank of China, a $1.5 billion private equity investment, as a possible reason why the current presidential candidate has adopted a conciliatory attitude toward China. The lucrative deal between the Bank of China and Hunter Biden's company was inked in 2013 just weeks after Joe Biden brought his son along on an official trip to China.
Schweizer also lays out the interesting cast of characters who partnered with Biden for the deal, such as the Thornton Group consulting firm, which is headed by James Bulger. The son of Massachusetts state senator Billy Bulger, James is named after his uncle James "Whitey" Bulger, who was killed in prison late last year after a decades-long career in the mob that landed him on the FBI's Most Wanted list.
Also partnered with Biden is Chris Heinz, the stepson of John Kerry. Biden and Heinz control Rosemont Seneca Partners, the private equity firm that received billions of investment dollars from China.
Schweizer, whose latest book Secret Empires examines the tactics used by political elites to accumulate wealth while in power, calls the timeline of Hunter Biden's business dealings with China as his father shaped foreign policy from the White House "shocking," but points out that nobody knew enough to raise any questions.
"If it sounds shocking that a vice president would shape US-China policy as his son—who has scant experience in private equity—clinched a coveted billion-dollar deal with an arm of the Chinese government, that’s because it is," Schweizer writes. "Until the publication of my book … no one knew the deal took place. Indeed, it took me and a team of seasoned investigators nearly two years to unearth and report the facts."
The details of the dealings between Biden, Heinz, and Bulger remain murky, despite the investigation. Schweizer has called for the Senate to further investigate Biden's foreign business dealings with both China and Ukraine.
It is so good that Democrats are against wealthy people...
Howie calls a Billy Bulger “the corrupt midget”. I guess the apple didn’t fall far from that tree.
how long has the stepson been a stepson and why wasn’t this a red flag to our intel agencies when considering clearances?
This thing has legs throughout the whole party.
Did this expose "unravel" the Clinton Crime Family and wipe out the Democrats? We wish it did, but nothing happened. Well, MAYBE three things did occur -- we narrowly avoided the Clinton Communist in the White House, their tour sale tickets are being discounted to almost free, and those miserable old grifter have almost zero political relevance today.
"Peter Schweizer reveals [in "Clinton Cash"] that the Clintons typically blur the lines between politics, philanthropy, and business. Consider the following: Bill flies into a third world country where he spends time in the company of a businessman. A deal is struck. Soon after, enormous contributions are made to the Clinton Foundation, while Bill is commissioned to deliver a series of highly paid speeches. Some of these deals require approval or review by the US government and fall within the purview of a powerful senator and secretary of state. Often the people involved are characters of a kind that an American ex-president (or the spouse of a sitting senator, secretary of state, or presidential candidate) should have nothing to do with.Probably the best we can hope for is this keeps Biden off the ticket. But that leaves us with another twenty dangerous dwarfs.This blockbuster exposé reveals the mysterious multimillion-dollar Foundation gift from an obscure Indian politician that coincided with Senator Clinton’s reversal on the nuclear nonproliferation treaty; how Secretary of State Clinton was involved in allowing the transfer of what was projected to be 50 percent of US domestic uranium output to the Russian government; how multimillion-dollar contracts for Haiti disaster relief were awarded to donors and friends of Hillary and Bill . . . and more.
Clinton Cash raises serious and alarming questions of judgment, of possible indebtedness to an array of foreign interests, and, ultimately, of fitness for high public office."
It is the height of hypocrisy for the Dems to go after President Trump for his business dealings and the emoluments clause when they have the stark naked sky-high corruption with the Clintons and Bidens. I have no doubt a little investigative reporting would find the Obamas up to their eyeballs in the same style corruption, but they seem to have done a much better job of keeping it out of the public view.
“Biden’s family has been mob-connected for decades,”
I didn’t know that. Biden is often held up as a paragon of virtue who didn’t enrich himself at the public trough. That never did pass the sniff test.
For America to be....... Democrats must be exterminated. Like Carthage, they must ground into dust and then salted.
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