Biden Niece Lobbied His White House For Multi-Million Dollar Firms, He ‘Joked’ She Was The ‘Only Reason’ They Worked With U.S. Govt

Valerie “Missy” Owens – the niece of Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden – departed her high-profile post in the Obama administration to become a multi-million dollar lobbyist for Coca-Cola. She lobbied a host of federal agencies including the White House office and saw then-Vice President Biden discuss her influence while he publicly praised her company and its involvement in a lucrative Obama administration initiative.

The unearthed information follows a trove of email threads and documents exposing Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s leveraging his father’s name to ink lucrative lobbying and consulting contracts, often with foreign competitors such as the Chinese Communist Party.

Under Joe Biden’s vice presidential tenure, Owens joined the White House, serving as Deputy Chief of Staff at the Department of Energy from 2009 to 2011 and later as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary at the Department of Commerce from 2011 to 2012.

Immediately after, Owens departed her taxpayer-funded positions to join Coca-Cola as a Director of Public Affairs and Diplomatic Relations. She held the position for four years before becoming a Director for Federal of Government Relations for Federal and Diplomatic matters in 2016 – a position she still holds.

And Joe Biden was well aware of her efforts, referencing her affiliation with Coca-Cola in a speech from January 2014 where he “joked” about Owens’s influence over the company. Perhaps an example of Owens’s influence over the Obama administration, Coca-Cola earned praise from Biden for participating in a lucrative and market-expanding endeavor in Latin America:

“ExxonMobil, Santander Bank which I understand didn’t know how to tell Kathleen Kennedy Townsend “no,” Coca-Cola where my niece is here. I’m sure the only reason Coke is doing this Missy is because of you, thank you very much. That’s a joke by the way.”

Owens, therefore, was lobbying the presidential administration her uncle ran; Owens’s personal bio describes her as “engag[ing] with the U.S. Congress and the Administration.”

The U.S government’s Lobbying Disclosure Act Database reveals nearly $20 million spent on lobbying efforts by the beverage behemoth.

And Owens is listed as a principal lobbyist on each million-dollar account, tasked with lobbying the U.S. Congress and a host of federal agencies including the Department of Agriculture, Department of State, Department of Health and Human Services, White House Office, U.S. Trade Representative, and Agency for International Development.

The Missy Owens mentioned is Joe's niece by his sister Valerie

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In 2009 Joe Biden Hired His Niece Who Worked for the Bill Gates’s Foundation.
The 26-Year-Old Casey Owens Then Advised Biden On The U.S.-China Relations Which Enriched Hunter Biden But Crippled America.
The National Pulse ^ | AUGUST 22, 2020 | Natalie Winters / FR Posted on 8/24/2020, 7:36:19 PM by E. Pluribus Unum

DURING DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOE BIDEN’S VICE PRESIDENTIAL TENURE, HIS 26-YEAR-OLD NIECE COORDINATED THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S CHINA APPROACH AS A SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT’S U.S.-CHINA STRATEGIC AND ECONOMIC DIALOGUE.

Casey Owens, the latest member of the Biden family to benefit financially or professionally from the former Senator’s connections, joined “the highest-level bilateral economic forum” four years after graduating from college and a stint at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She wielded considerable influence over the direction of U.S.-China relations between 2009 and 2011, as she described her team as “advising” former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and responsible for “coordinat[ing] the priorities within the agenda for the Dialogue” and “spearhead[ing] the negotiations of proposals.”

The appointment triggered no media furore, nor coverage, with the exception of a buried two-sentence mention in a New York Times article from this year.

The piece highlights Biden’s penchant for exploiting political office to provide family members with jobs and lucrative contracts, though the criticism was arguably 12 years too late.

Biden, identified as one of the “top five senators payments or contributions to a family businesses or employer” in a 2008 Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics report, also funneled $3,618 from his 2002 Senate campaign fund to Owens.

An unearthed cable reveals Owens was part of the elite Strategic and Economic Dialogue II planning trip to Beijing as part of the Economic Track delegation alongside State and Treasury Executive and Senior officials. Despite being out of the administration for five years, she attended the Obama administration’s final state dinner. Her proximity to American and Chinese officials casts the rest of the family’s China-based business dealings, chiefly those of Hunter Biden, in an interesting and, perhaps, suspicious light.

Hunter, along with other Obama officials’ offspring, notoriously ran investment firms that inked billion-dollar contracts with Chinese companies, including state-owned enterprises.

Many allege these deals only materialized due to his father’s position. In 2013, for example, then-Veep Biden and his son traveled via Air Force Two to China, and twelve days later, Hunter landed a $1 billion contract with a subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-run Bank of China. The hiring decision serves as a cautionary tale for what the composition of a potential Biden administration could look like – teeming with his family members while those in the private sector profit immensely.

Natalie Winters is an executive assistant to the editor, as well as a Senior Writing Fellow at the National Pulse. She has previously been published at the WarRoom.org website. (Excerpt) Read more at thenationalpulse.com ...

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