The Biden Crime Family: From Embarrassment to Extortion

Illinois Review ^ | October 19, 2020 A.D. | John F Di Leo

[jfd1776]

Many politicians have an embarrassment or two in their families.

In my lifetime, Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy was the most famous example. Billy Carter ran a dingy, dreadful gas station (Amoco was constantly trying to find a way to force him to clean it up) and upon his brother’s election, he marketed a cheap beer – Billy Beer! - to capitalize on his proximity to fame and fortune.

But it wasn't illegal. It was pretty embarrassing for Jimmy, sure, but it didn’t reflect badly on the president in the eyes of the law. There’s no law against being the brother of a slob with an unkempt gas station.

Similarly, there have been other presidents with a son or daughter whose misbehavior embarrassed them in the press - being notorious for drunk driving, drug abuse, wild partying, or other such problems.

But even if their behavior was illegal, it only reflected upon the politician as an impropriety, a black mark. It wasn't like the politician himself was the one breaking the law.

If George W Bush’s or Barack Obama’s daughters were caught partying while away at college, it’s not like the president was caught along with them, puffing away.

In such cases, the politician's only guilt in the eyes of the public is of having been an unsuccessful parent…

…which brings us to the strange case of Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

It has long been known that Hunter Biden was an embarrassment to the family. While brother Beau got elected to public office and appeared to be on track for success before being brought down by cancer, Hunter was long known as the wild child, with a record-setting drug-and-stripper addiction. If rehab centers offered frequent lockup points, he’d have a platinum card.

Until recently, Biden supporters assumed that this was as far as it went – that Hunter was an embarrassment, nothing more. If anything, it was a case for the sympathy vote: poor dad lost his successful son, and still has to care for this drug-addled addict. Isn’t that sad?

Well, so much for that. The big reveals of the campaign’s final weeks have put an end to that notion.

What has been known for years – by the think tank crowd and the politically astute – was that Joe Biden’s family and friends had been getting rich for years off their proximity to, first, Senator Joe, and then Vice President Joe.

ENTER THE COMPUTER REPAIRMAN.

A few great investigative journalists, particularly Peter Schweizer, revealed circumstantial evidence and more, well over a year ago… but it didn’t really catch the interest of the public until the New York Post broke the news of an abandoned laptop in a Wilmington computer repair shop, less than a month before the general election, after early voting had already begun.

And overnight, everything changed.

Suddenly, the campaign’s hope for sympathy collapsed like a house of cards, as it became impossible to deny – finally – that in this case, Joe Biden son's crimes are NOT just his son's crimes. They’re his too.

We now know – and it can no longer be denied – that Hunter Biden got jobs – director posts, board member appointments, consultant gigs, etc. - in exchange for access to his father, the Vice President of the United States.

Hunter Biden was paid - salaries, consulting fees, gifts, milestone payments etc, in both foreign currency and US currency, by both foreign companies and domestic ones - after or while his father did favors for foreign oligarchs or the foreign businesses to which the son was attached… in Ukraine, China, Kazakhstan, and more. There is now even written evidence of how the money would be shared with the old man – “the big guy” – referred to as a 10% commission in some places, a 50/50 split in at least one.

This made those payments CRIMES - because they constitute the sale of American government policy. This isn’t just something that “has the appearance of impropriety.” It’s way beyond that.

No, this is bribery through an intermediary, an extremely common practice in the third world.

THE FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is written to set the rest of the world on the USA's high standards. The FCPA warns every business, big and small, to take care in its foreign sales efforts and government bids, to ensure that they don’t enrich foreign government ministers either directly OR indirectly as a ticket to access or a condition of contracting.

The FCPA, through its enforcement and prosecution guidelines, declares that such common indirect bribery methods as hiring a government official's son, brother, or neighbor are all illegal in world commerce; they must not be tolerated. They give the cronies of a politician an unfair advantage over competing firms that don’t have such connections; they give corrupt companies a way to buy into government contracts rather than winning them fair and square on an open bid.

The FCPA enforcers hunt down companies that get fat taxpayer contracts by giving a Mercedes to some little country’s minister of transportation, or by hiring the prime minister’s cousin as branch manager, or by hiring the secretary of war’s brother as a sales consultant.

The FCPA levels the playing field, and enables small businesses to compete with the big multinationals that can afford to toss around Mercedes and BMWs like candy to the decision makers in sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, and southeast Asia… Numerous other countries have joined the effort, passing anti-corruption laws of their own that sometimes go even further.

I believe in the FCPA. For the most part, it's a good law. Yes, it’s tricky to follow sometimes… complex and expensive in specificity... and yes, it increases the cost of a company’s legal budget.

But the FCPA sets a wonderful, honorable goal before the world: a level playing field for international commerce. And that’s worth a few hoops.

Over the past twenty years, the USA has fined many companies many billions of dollars for FCPA violations. Do an internet search of "Siemens and FCPA,” sometime, if you want a few examples for reference. They’re the poster child for this one.

And this is why, for the people of the United States to elect Joe Biden to the White House now - knowing what we know today - would be to make any prosecution of ANYONE under the FCPA nothing less than an act of sheer hypocrisy.

If Joe Biden somehow pulls out a win in this election... Heaven forbid.... I sure hope the many lawyers of Siemens AG (and all its little subsidiaries) sue the United States of America for a refund of all the billions it’s paid in FCPA fines over the past 20 years.

Hypocrisy in politics is nothing new, but there have to be limits. The United States cannot be the city on a hill, the moral standard in international trade, if we elect a slimy crook to the presidency.

Joe Biden has been revealed to be nothing more than the big-time version of a small-time thug, shaking down local storefronts for protection money. Never forget his words to the government of Ukraine when their prosecutor was investigating a connected company’s shady dealings, and he held a billion-dollar aid package as ransom to get what he wanted for his son’s crooked client.

Statesmen usually dream of being remembered for some great political statement, like “There is nothing to fear but fear itself,” or “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

With his incredibly careless personal corruption, Joe Biden has sealed his fate. He will be best remembered for his casual threat to the government of Ukraine, back when he was Vice President:

“If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.”

Joe Biden may wear crisp suits and put a neat Windsor knot in his neckties, but these revelations show him to be no more than the local machine’s bag man, a common machine pol on an uncommonly high level.

Copyright 2020 John F Di Leo

John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based trade compliance trainer, writer and actor. His columns have been run in Illinois Review since 2009.

[Liz]

Biden and his granddaughter Finnegan ordered milkshakes in a North Carolina burger joint.

As Biden walked away with his frosty treats, a hard-hitting journalist dogging Biden shouted, "Mr. Biden! Mr. Biden! What flavor did you get?"

Hill media reporter Joe Concha commented on the investigative journalist's in-depth question. "No presidential candidate has been less scrutinized than Biden.....yet the media has been screaming about transparency for Trump the past four years. The media should hold all of the powerful players accountable."

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NOTE: Finnegan is druggie Hunter's daughter. She sucked-off the backs of taxpayers 24/7 on a family jaunt to Beijing where Hunter famously got license to do personal billion dollar business with China.....all arranged by his VP dad in his tax-paid VP's office w/ tax-paid staff doing the legwork for Hunter.

Joe waves to the official Chinese delegation there to greet him for talks on US policy.

The moron Finnegan waves to the Chinese delegation....like she's some sort of diplomat.

[Freedumb]

Let’s not give old Billy Carter too easy a pass. The dummy became a registered agent of Libya and took a large amount of money from them, resulting in Senate hearings on the Billygate influence peddling scandal.

Hunter is only taking this to 100X level.

[taxpayerfatigue]

Love how they always give their offspring cutesy names which set them apart from the ordinary deplorables. As if they’re from a long line of Irish aristocracy.

[Huskrrrr]

I can smell the stench from DC hear in California. Oh, wait that’s the Cali stench.

[Liz]

Crackhead Hunter Biden got jobs – director posts, board member appointments, consultant gigs, etc. - in exchange for access to his father, the VP.

Hunter got hefty salaries, consulting fees, gifts, milestone payments etc, in both foreign currency and US currency, by both foreign companies and domestic ones......

Hunter enjoyed the good life while his father sucked-up doing favors for foreign oligarchs and businesses paying Hunter...... in Ukraine, China, Kazakhstan, and more.

There is now written evidence of how the money would be shared with the old man – “the big guy” – referred to as a 10% commission in some places, a 50/50 split in at least one.......while the even bigger guy Obama got his cut.

[Liz]

Joe’s mother’s maiden name was Finnegan.

[Nailbiter]

flr

[dp0622]

This is the first outlet besides the usual that has written about this, that I have seen.

Is it a local paper or a large distribution paper?

Thanks

[yesthatjallen]

Where are the Republicans standing shoulder to shoulder in solidarity in the rotunda of the Capital demanding an investigation?

[BrexitBen]

This all has to be revealed NOW !

No more drip-drip-drip.......

[glasseye]

And the FBI continues it’s ‘Sargent Schultz’ policy...

[GnuThere]

If it helps, my good friends had a yellow lab named Finnegan.
So to me she has a dog’s name.

[Liz]

A conservative perspective on the news.

[Torahman]

Biden May have been sharp and vigorous in his earlier years, but now he’s just a tired old man. He has been cajoled into running for a presidency he will never actuate. He is the front man for an evil so diabolical that if you told the average American where his election will take us they would not believe you. But there is an historical precursor of a President Joseph Biden. Biden walks and sleeps under the shadow of this man, and he will have the same legacy. That man is Paul von Hindenburg. Biden is in no way a man of such stature and achievements, but he is old and in declining health. Like Hindenburg he will become the persona legitima of the chaos and mayhem on our streets. All that is needed is a “Reichstag” event that will lead to the suspension of civil liberties, the confiscation of weapons and the installation of a dynamic new leader, an ideal socialist with an inspiring story. In Hindenburg’s case is was a man named Adolf Hitler. Hitler is dead but his spirit is here. It walks through the mayhem of our burning cities, cloaked and masked like the hate filled radicals we see beating and shooting our fellow citizens. His mantle Is washed and pressed, ready to be placed again on the shoulders of the Man; the Man who hates America, hates the Natural Order, and Hates Nature’s God. I wonder: will we too stand there, in our incredulity, as we witness the fiery destruction of our beloved country and our children, screaming “Oh the Humanity!”...?

[dp0622]

Oh ok. Thanks

I was hoping it was like a Times or Tribune type of outlet with a very large audience.

Still a great read.

I would just love to see one outlet besides the original, the NY Post, write something like this.

Or even report honestly.

My God, that’s what it’s come to.

Just wanting objective reporting in a newspaper

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

I'm remembering an old joke from the 70s:

Q: What's the only beer without a head?
A: Billy Beer.

I remember my Mom & my Aunt getting a huge belly laugh when Miz Lillian - the Presidential Mother - proudly proclaimed that of her two sons, Billy was the smartest one.

Heh heh!

[Sir Bangaz Cracka]

The really frightening thing is that most of the professional politicians in DC are doing everything they can to be just like Joe. How can we expect them to start jailing people for doing the very thing they are doing?

[alexander_busek]

As Biden walked away with his frosty treats, a hard-hitting journalist dogging Biden shouted, "Mr. Biden! Mr. Biden! What flavor did you get?"

Mr. Biden replied, "The public doesn't deserve to know! And besides: If I told you, then you'd print it, and tomorrow, that'd be the story!"

Regards,

[blackberry1]

Time for a Special Prosecutor isn’t it Mr. Attorney General???