Biden ‘Inc’:... Biden family business conflicts.....exploiting the presidency for personal gain
washingtonexaminer ^ | 1/30/2021 | Naomi Lim
Posted on 1/31/2021, 4:03:02 AM by caww
The Biden administration is grappling with ethical dilemmas created by the complicated business dealings of Pres. Biden and VP. Harris’s ‘families’....
Bidens youngest son, lobbyist-investor Hunter, profited from the Biden name, specifically in China and Ukraine. His lucrative role with oligarch-linked Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, for instance, was central to former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment.....
Hunter was under a federal tax investigation dating back to 2018 into his foreign associations and accusations of money laundering.
Biden’s brother Frank was featured in an ad for his Florida law firm touting his ties to the administration.
This week’s reporting isn’t the first time Frank Biden has traded on his last name, and he’s not the only Biden brother to cash in....
Joe Biden’s youngest brother James, has created related issues, including through hedge fund Paradigm Global Advisors. He and Hunter took over the group in 2006.
“Don’t worry about investors,” James Biden reportedly told executives ‘on their first day’. “We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.”
Another campaign pledge, that no one in Biden’s family would have a West Wing office, was dredged up this week as well after it was confirmed his sister Valerie wouldn’t have real estate near the Oval Office.
Biden lawyers reportedly had a similar talk to one member of Harris’s family. Meena Harris was reminded by that she can’t profit off the name of the former senator...And this week, it became known that Harris’s stepdaughter Ella, inked a modeling contract with leading agency. (Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
WASHINGTON - The Florida law firm that employs President Joe Biden’s brother Frank ran a newspaper ad on Inauguration Day touting the brothers’ relationship and shared values, a move that is causing an ethics headache for the administration less than two weeks after Biden took office.
Biden has promised to lead a highly ethical administration, which he has pitched as a contrast to his predecessor, and has adopted unusually strict rules for those serving in his administration, although they do not necessarily apply to family members.
The two-page “advertorial” ran on Jan. 20 in the South Florida-based Daily Business Review to promote the work of the Berman Law Group, which employs Frank Biden as a “non-attorney senior adviser.”
The ad features a smiling photo of Frank Biden and highlights his relationship with the president, stressing their shared values. It focuses on the Berman Law Group’s role in a class-action case against sugar cane growers and Frank Biden’s part in that litigation.
The ad is fashioned to resemble a news story about the firm’s involvement in the sugar cane case, though it is clearly labeled “Advertorial Section.” It cites Frank Biden’s connection with the president multiple times, linking the law firm’s work with the values laid out in President Biden’s agenda.
In the second paragraph of a roughly 1,000-word advertisement, for example, the text says the Berman Law Group sued sugar cane growers “against the backdrop of incoming President Joseph Biden Jr.’s commitment to environmental and social justice, a value shared by his brother and Berman Law Group senior adviser, Frank Biden.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...