Posted on 02/03/2020 8:03:45 PM PST by davikkm
Former Vice President Joe Biden went to great lengths to boost his son-in-laws health care company while in the White House, briefing investors on the firms merits and even arranging access to the Oval Office. The bombshell revelations are detailed in Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by Americas Progressive Elite a new book by Peter Schweizer, a senior contributor at Breitbart News and the president of the Government Accountability Institute.
In June 2011, Biden arranged a private meeting for two StartUp Health executives with then-President Barack Obama in the Oval Office. At the time of the meeting, the company had been around for only a few weeks. It had yet to finalize its business plan, let alone develop a website.
The meeting was all the more surprising since StartUp Health was not proposing any new or radical ideas for health care, at least not to the degree of warranting a meeting with the nations commander-in-chief.
Their status as a health care incubator was hardly unique, Schweizer writes in Profiles in Corruption. In fact, there were thirty-one similar companies operating in the state of California alone, and another eleven in the state of New York.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Isn’t this the right time for the U.S. Marshal’s Service to take the Biden’s into custody? And also Hillary. And let’s not forget Nancy Pelosi, Shifty and that fat no neck rude dude that is always trying to follow Pelosi around like a mad dog........
For later
*Yawn* The MSM will never report on it.
He launched a business?
I know this is Breitbart but...?
My high school nephew put more effort into a endeavor in his summer job, driving the launch at coneys marine out of Huntington Harbor.
Could we get a break?
This is the swamp that Trump was elected to drain. The reason the political class (swamp) hates/fears Trump is because they achieved their power by creating a protection racket over decades taking campaign donations from wealthy businesses in exchange for rigging the laws. Trump leapfrogged their whole scam and hasn’t shared in their crimes. This is how organized crime enforces loyalty.
How about a Hunger Games style competition with DhimmicRAT congress critters?
In a sane world
Crappy criminal. His whole worthless family are crappy criminals. Pathetic. Lock them UP!
I’m sure CNN/NBC/CBS/ABC/MSNBC will be having him on multiple segments to discuss all the corruption he has uncovered. I hear the NYT and WAPO will be collaborating to do a huge investigative series. Woodward and Berstein are getting the band back together. Any day now! /s
Would it not be great to have Biden run against Trump??
He would be ground up and put in a can for pet food...
Not corrupt. Nope. Not at all.
What? Another Biden “Squid pro Crow” deal (aka access/money for influence in the business world).
Joe is toast, burnt toast and ready for “Happydale”.
Lets see, (1) He withholds $100 million (or was it $1 billion?) from Ukraine , with Obamas approval, unless they fire a prosecutor, whom they then fire, who was looking into the corruption of the company where Bidens son was handed a bogus job paying $83,000 per month. (2) Biden helped his brother in a corrupt scheme involving real estate and housing construction contracts. (3) Now we hear about his son-in-law in another corrupt scheme. And (4) Was there not some corrupt scheme involving his daughter or his wife, or both? Sweet Jesus! All this makes Al Gore and the Buddhist temple look positively lame!
Exactly
Bttt
health care company, cashing in on Obama care. See its all about them and their ability because of their status to rob cheat and steal from us
In October Ukrainian Parliamentarian Andrey (Andriy) Derkach revealed in a press conference
that Joe Biden was paid $900,000 for lobbying efforts from Burisma Holdings in Ukraine.
Much of the $5.3B in US Aid Ukraine reported as misused was given to the embassys favored NGOs.
At the time Yovanovitch, witness for the Witchunt, was the Amb. That embassy directed the police not to investigate.
"Thanks Hunter......now I can buy that $12 million spread on Martha's Vineyard Michelle is bugging me for."
Revealed: Joe Biden twice used his position as senator to intervene to boost son Hunter’s lobbying
Joe Biden lobbied Department of Justice Congress and Homeland Security for Hunter’s lobbying clients
BY Alana Goodman, Washington Examiner| October 24, 2019 07:37 PM
Joe Biden privately contacted the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice when he was a senior and influential U.S. senator to discuss issues that his son Hunters firm was being paid to lobby on, according to government records.
On at least two occasions, Biden contacted federal departments to discuss issues related to Hunters firms lobbying clients, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
Bidens behind-the-scenes outreach illustrates how his Senate work overlapped with his sons business interests. Biden has faced scrutiny for taking actions that were perceived to benefit his sons work, including calling for the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor and backing policies that helped the Delaware-based credit card industry while Hunter was working for MBNA, which is headquartered in the state.
Government records show that Biden, who has always insisted he knows nothing about his son’s business activities, helped Hunter’s work with strategic and highly specific interventions that could have benefited his son to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.
On Feb. 28, 2007, Biden contacted DHS to express that he was concerned about the Department’s proposed chemical security regulations authorized by Section 550 of DHS Appropriations Act of 2007, according to the departments log of its contacts with members of Congress.
Section 550, which was passed in 2006 as part of the DHS appropriations bill, requires high-risk chemical plants to submit site safety plans to DHS for approval, including security credentialing and training for employees.
Eight weeks earlier, the Industrial Safety Training Council had hired Hunter Bidens firm to lobby DHS on the issue. The trade group, which represents companies that provide safety training for chemical facility employees, was mounting a heavy lobbying campaign over section 550, submitting congressional testimony about the need to expand background checks for chemical plant employees.
The Industrial Safety Training Council was seeking to expand the language in DHS legislation regarding security clearance and credentialing for chemical facility employees and employers in January 2007, according to lobbying disclosure records.
While Hunter Biden did not register as an individual lobbyist for the trade association, he was one of three senior partners in his firm at the time. The Industrial Safety Training Council paid Oldaker, Biden & Belair a total of $200,000 between early 2007 and the end of 2008.
The Biden campaign did not respond to request for comment. The National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group, said Biden should have avoided involvement with issues that his sons firm was also lobbying on because of the appearance of conflict.
Its implausible Sen. Biden did not know his sons firm was lobbying on this arcane issue, said Tom Anderson, the director of NLPCs Government Integrity Project.
Sometimes appearances are exactly what they are,” he said. This is a recurring problem weve seen on the Hill, where family members are enriched because of their relationship with a member.
Biden also sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Jan. 31, 2007 requesting a meeting with the Department of Justice to discuss expanding the federal fingerprint background check system.
I write to request your assistance in implementing an expanded background check system for our nation’s volunteer organizations, wrote Biden. If we can work together to expand the number of volunteer organizations that have access to fast, accurate, and inexpensive fingerprint background checks, we will make significant and important strides in our ongoing effort to protect kids across our country.
Biden added, I would like to convene a small meeting with key representatives from DOJ, the FBI, members of Congress and volunteer groups.
One of Hunters firms lobbying clients at the time, a coalition of state-level criminal justice advocates called SEARCH, was also lobbying the federal government for a broader fingerprint screening system at the time.
The same day as Bidens letter, SEARCH adopted a resolution calling on Congress to consider “any effort to improve the quality, completeness and accessibility of criminal history records and expand the current system to allow the return of all criminal history record information maintained by the States on the search subject through a single fingerprint check.
The group initially hired Oldaker, Biden & Belair in 2006 to lobby for federal funding for state-level criminal justice programs, paying the firm $114,000 over the next year. In early 2008, SEARCH was seeking funding to assist states in development and use of information to accelerate automation of fingerprint authentication processes and criminal justice data which are compatible with the FBIs” system, according to lobbying records.
Biden introduced a bill called the Child Protection Improvements Act on March 13, 2008, which created a national fingerprint background check system for volunteer groups that worked with children. Oldaker, Biden & Belair promptly began lobbying for the bill on behalf of their client, SEARCH, according to lobbying records. SEARCH paid the firm $93,000 in 2008, records show.
Hunter Biden founded Oldaker, Biden & Belair with William Oldaker, a former adviser to his father. During his time at the firm, he was registered to lobby for clients on issues ranging from online gambling to higher education. After Biden became a vice presidential candidate in 2008, Hunter stepped away from lobbying, and the firm was renamed Oldaker, Belair & Wittie.
ABC News reported last week that Biden was concerned conflicts with his sons lobbying work could negatively affect his presidential run in 2008.
Biden was “concerned with the impact that Hunter’s lobbying activities might have on his expected campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination,” according to court documents filed by a former business partner of Hunter Bidens in 2007, ABC News reported.
“Because my dad was vice president of the United States, there’s literally nothing, as a young man or as a full-grown adult, that my father in some way hasn’t had influence over,” Hunter told the outlet in an interview.
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