That is an accusation of outright criminality. I hope for your sake that you have proof.
His son was a lobbyist. He made a million and a half a year as a lobbyist. He said, its legal because he sends someone from his office to his dad’s office, he doesn’t go personally. When Biden ran for VP, his son left his career as lobbyist and became a rookie stock broker for a million and a half a year.
The info about Harry Reid comes from a few years ago when he acted to privatize some BLM land around Vegas on behalf of the cities and some developers. It came out in the press that the developers and the cities separately paid his sons in their capacities as lobbyists to work this problem through. One son received $250k, and the other received $350k for his services.
I’m sure that these guys are lawyers and they have observed the legal niceties that keep them within the law. I do not allege any illegality. Lawyers who do lobbying do not make those kinds of mistakes. Lawmakers who make lobbying laws do not make those kinds of mistakes. I am sure everything they have done is legal.
This is similar to the situation with Tom Daschle. His wife was a well paid lobbyist on behalf of the airline industry during the time that Daschle was working on airline regulations.
It was legal, they said, because she didn’t lobby him, only congress.
These people are lawyers. I’m sure they know where the legal lines are.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082603894.html
Interesting article about Hunter Biden. In it he’s clear that he doesn’t lobby his father. His company does, but he doesn’t. In some other articles I saw remarks that, we never talk to him directly, we only talk to his staff. Or something like that.
He did lobby Obama, of course.
He was on the payroll of the credit card company that was his dad’s biggest supporter but not as a “lobbyist”, but rather as “consultant”. They say quite boldly “he was never our lobbyist”. He was a consultant, for four years, which is different. This was during the time Biden was working on credit card reform. So I’m sure they’ve measured what the law allows and they are careful not to cross any lines.
In digging I ran across some stuff about the Biden family hedge fund. That stuff is pretty interesting, brother and son bought in for $21 million dollars, or something like that. Other articles say they were being paid $25k a month to find financing for the deal, which they were calling companies that were Biden campaign donors. And so it goes. I’m not a lawyer or a financial guy, so I just have to take it on faith that what they are doing is legal or they wouldn’t do it.