Posted on 10/17/2020 1:57:10 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
President Trump’s reelection campaign resurrected a stunning story of how Joe Biden once pushed legislation favoring the credit card industry while his son landed a lucrative consulting job with MBNA.
Hunter Biden was paid an untold sum of money by the large credit card company based in Delaware --SNIP--
The Washington Post noted that “Biden’s son Hunter worked at MBNA for five years and was retained as a consultant for another five — all while Biden was backing the bankruptcy bill that would help MBNA.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bizpacreview.com ...
What was Beau’s job[s] back in the day?
Who knew that MILLIONs and MILLIONS were in Joe’s LUNCH BUCKET!
I guess Beau was the CLEAN BIDEN! Or WAS he?
He was Attorney General of Delaware. I guess that explains a lot.
Joe turned his weak son into a bagman...liable for criminal charges while Joe demanded half the payoff. What a dad...what a guy. He used his son.
No wonder the whole family is so effed up. It all comes back to that miserable narcissistic POS, Joe “Pop” Biden.
NOTE: All of these profile Joe as a proud, helpful father. The interventions apparently laid the groundwork for the
massive global money-making schemes Hunter would later be involved in.....with Joe Biden and Obama weighing in
"officially" ............. as soon as the checks cleared.
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 Hunter’s 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 Hunter’s firm’s lobbying clients, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
Biden’s behind-the-scenes outreach illustrates how his Senate work overlapped with his son’s business interests. Biden has faced scrutiny for taking actions that were perceived to benefit his son’s 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 department’s 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 Biden’s 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 son’s firm was also lobbying on because of the appearance of conflict.
“It’s implausible Sen. Biden did not know his son’s firm was lobbying on this arcane issue,” said Tom Anderson, the director of NLPC’s Government Integrity Project. “Sometimes appearances are exactly what they are," he said. “This is a recurring problem we’ve 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 Hunter’s firm’s 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 Biden’s 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 FBI’s" 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 son’s 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 Biden’s 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.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/biden-outreach-to-dhs-and-doj-overlapped-
Slow Joe is definitely Father of the Year award material. NOT!
He was Delaware’s attorney general. He was awful. Gimme time and I tell you tales.
Let us begin by Beau Biden’s cover up of a baby molesting doctor
Or the time I shared a ciggie with him at the Delaware state fair.
But the guy is dead and he died young so I feel guilty talking bad about.
But I got some stories.
And planned higher office for Beau, so they could keep it going like the Kennedys.
Such hubris! Should’ve never run for potus. Just had to push it a step further. Idiots. They had it made.
Did Joe take his customary 50% cut of the action?
The Swamp is deeper than we thought....and it gets deeper on Capitol Hill.
If he was as bad as you say, then he gets no cover under the darkness of death. IMHO at least.
Beau was a nice guy, good sense of humor . He liked to poke fun at his father.
But lord, he got brain cancer, how sad.
But that baby molester and Beebe Medical Center. There’s a hint.
Gimme time, I’ll get there.
Beau was great friends with Kamala Harris, who was also an AG.
There’s probably stories galore in Beau Biden’s story.
But I feel with the brain cancer he already got punished. While his brother smokes crack, gets millions, and married Beau,s wife.
He got brain cancer!!!
It’s no wonder Bidens wife is out on the campaign trail, trying to keep the whole family out of jail!
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