Posted on 03/18/2018 6:46:39 AM PDT by notaliberal
Peter Schweizer, who delved into the Clinton Foundation’s dealings in 2016’s “Clinton Cash,” has turned his sights to the money-making machinations of DC’s political elite. His new book, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” — due out Tuesday from Harper Collins — exposes how politicians engage in “corruption by proxy” by exploiting family and business ties to enrich themselves and their relatives. Here, The Post’s Larry Getlen details the book’s revelations on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, ex-Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and others: In 2004, current Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife, current US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, had an average net worth of $3.1 million. Ten years later, that number had increased to somewhere between $9.2 million and $36.5 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
A story as old as GOVT.
IMO, it is, unfort, one area where the Founders dropped the ball.
Instead of ‘...a Republic, if you can keep it’ should have been ‘...a Republic, if you can keep watering the Tree.’. My $.02.
Mitch and Elaine - the Republican party’s answer to Bill and Hill.
They are going to need to focus on the GOP.
The new plan in Congress is to install a majority D House in to stop the Trump agenda. Stopping Trump is the first bipartisan issue to truly unite Congress in 100 years.
Ryan got the GOP to make an ad buy AGAINST Saccone in PA.
The media narrative is already preparing the ground.
The time to start dislodging the GOP party bosses is today.
Sickens me that people have made millions as public servants!
Not as evil though.
Great book ping. I look forward to more exposés of our hacks in DC. This book’s Nancy Pelosi + husband exposé should be hugely corrupt. Pelosi and her husband are worth at least 100 million.
That's a pretty wild claim. Source?
Politicians engage in corruption by proxy.
Must be the reason more democrats in D.C. own millions than republicans MSM mum.
Harry Reid winks
Some FReepers here may recall (though it was during the 1980’s Reagan years and Dan Rostenkowski’s reign as Chairman of Ways and Means in the House, the House post office/banking scandal, etc. for which he eventually wound up in the federal pen for mail fraud). These were a series of events in the military base “re-alignment/closures” period, and involving the Pritzkers (the Pritzkers being huge real estate chi-town moguls and worldwide). Political hot potatoes of base closure and local economies at the forefront.
The mayor of Orlando, FL at the time, a so-called “republican” progressive type, Glenda Hood, enriched herself and the Pritzkers greatly. The land of Micky Mouse et al.
The Naval Training Center Orlando,FL (was Orlando AFB before that as a training site for B-17 pilots WWII) brand newly completed modern (beautiful year round sunny and warm outdoor training base, with tourism leave perks for the recruits)-— became the LOSER in a choice between it, and the Naval Training Center Great Lakes, IL.
Great Lakes was literally falling apart (wooden rat infested barracks, infrastructure from BEFORE WWII, and most of the year drill instruction other had to be conducted indoors in a gymnasium— it being sub zero temperatures or seriously cold). There are many retired Navy online here who can attest to what a dump it was at that time for many years.
BUT... this rat trap WON over a year round, warm, outdoor drilling and naval training facility in sunny Florida, because it was in the criminal Rostenkowski’s district and he influenced the Closure Board and the Navy to shut down NTC Orlando (and greased the skids with fellow chi-town Pritzker money under the table, with the help of fellow RINO establishment types, from the uh.... Bush dynasty). Perhaps this was in “trade” for closing deals during the Reagan years to ostensibly “shrink” government— but then that was Speaker Tipsy O’Neill— and that Congress LIED to Reagan, bless his soul.
Part 2 of the story- the Orlando NTC now was on the Base Closure list and thence into the Govt. Svcs. Admin (GSA) as a “distressed” property for re-sale, and was deeded to the City of Orlando for.... $1.00... in yet another political move to grease the skids for leftist republicans to make a buck. There were no bids made public— the property was purchased at a monumental discount pitched against “development costs” after several head fake conversion ideas (like, let’s make it a college campus, or Campus Crusade for Christ, etc.) by Penny Pritzker through the arrangements and brokering of the Mayor Glenda. It is now an appalling tract and zero lot line “neo traditional” housing development that would rival any chi-town way outside of town development. Like sardines. And the culture of Orlando changed dramatically with the removal of the US Navy.
Glenda Hood subsequently finished her term, and.... magically buys a huge plantation outside of Tallahassee, and becomes a League of Cities and other lobbyist, close to...... ding, ding, ding....JEB! (another “real estate” laundry operator). Wonder how that was possible, financially? Should also mention, concurrent with all this, an NBA team, the (disney) “Magic”, came to be— ca-ching!
This is similar to how McConnell and his wife’s family have lined their pockets. McConnell being a “po-boy from N. Alabama” originally, and Chao’s family a rather large container shipping/ship owning company originally from Taiwan. McConnell is now trying to consolidate his control over Senate R candidates- see Mark Levin.
See how it’s done.... and always with OUR money. Democrats do this— only better. See Barbara Boxer’s hubby and their buying up of US Postal Service properties held by our government since the 1920’s. And don’t forget in San Fran...Pelosi’s greaseballing the Treasure Island Naval Facility (conversion again... to “CONDOS”!! right in the middle of Oakland/San Fran. and that famous “public/private” consortium bull.
And Pritzker(s)-?- Penny was Commerce Secretary under obamaumao, and was oh so excited to be laying family groundwork at the “opening up” of Cuba- for..... development. All to be completed if only hitlery had won. Meyer Lansky lives and his operation was picked up and moved from Cuba to Chicago “family”. To say nothing of the coming, “developments” in Cuba— as Raul (the head torturer and doper) “retires”. But that’s a separate discussion- or is it as obamaumao took us into the turd world.
“...Chao’s family a rather large container shipping/ship owning company originally from Taiwan.”
Yeah, wonder if that family and their shipping business have mainland roots?
I remember it from shortly before the election. I am sure it can be easily found on the net.
Shocking!, this never happens. Anyone think the Post ever did a similar story on a Rat?
“”Compare him to Obummer who got a million dollar per year pay raise passed through Congress for himself on top of what all the other president’s got PLUS he got his mother-in-law a nice $180,000 per year retirement that all of us are paying for.””
Come on - you people are getting ridiculous. None of that is true! What we know to be true is bad enough without posting/spreading false stories to raise blood pressures more - or is that the idea?
“”Retirement from where? Let me guess, employed as the White House nanny to her own grandchildren.””
None of that post is true. FReepers need to start fact checking these posts or these people will keep on posting the same garbage...
“”I remember it from shortly before the election. I am sure it can be easily found on the net.””
Then find it... What you will find is what you posted is NOT TRUE! Why on earth do people persist in posting something they think they heard before the election? WHAT election. The 2008 one or the 2012 one or the 2016 ones?
“”That’s a pretty wild claim. Source? “”
He doesn’t have a source as there isn’t any. It shouldn’t be up to us reading the posts to have to look for authenticity of such posts but it seems to be the norm anymore! People aren’t responsible for any of the garbage they post - here at FR or anywhere.
I didn’t see your post before I posted mine....I did the same thing - checked it out. You shouldn’t have thanked him - he should have thanked you....Will that sort of posting stop? Nope!
This reminded me of another FReeper about a week ago on an OJ thread who said that OJ used two knives in the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Brown. I posted that that wasn’t anything that came out in the trial and he said he remembered it from OJ’s football days. I didn’t want to embarrass the guy so I didn’t reply to that!!! Where are people’s brains? Don’t answer that - we all know where!
flr
When I look at Mitch McConnell, what I see is a lack of credibility.
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