Posted on 08/02/2024 6:51:01 AM PDT by SJackson
The PLO’s money arm was the largest foreign principal for his law firm.
“Will Doug Emhoff’s Legal Career Be an Issue for the Biden-Harris Ticket?” the New York Times asked four years ago.
The newspaper noted that Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris, was a partner at DLA Piper whose “lobbying clients” had included the governments of Afghanistan and Bahrain, as well as the Qatari government-funded Al Jazeera Network and the Palestine Monetary Authority.
DLA Piper was good to the Emhoff-Harris family with the family taking home $2.7 million in 2019 and $1.2 million in 2020. “To aspire to create wealth is a good thing as far as I’m concerned. If that is what one chooses. I, on the other hand, have chosen to live a life of public service,’ Kamala had claimed. But the “life of public service” led to her husband’s role at DLA Piper.
And two DLA Piper clients are connected to a flashpoint in Kamala’s foreign policy.
As vice president, Kamala pursued a harsher line against Israel than Biden, virulently denouncing the Jewish state over its military campaign against Hamas terrorists after Oct 7.
DLA Piper not only represented Qatar through its state-owned Al Jazeera terrorist propaganda network, but has an office there as part of the Qatar Financial Centre Branch of DLA Piper Middle East. Qatar harbors Hamas and funded it along with other Islamic terrorist groups.
The enemy terrorist outlet hired DLA Piper around the same time that some members of Congress had asked why Al Jazeera was not complying with the Foreign Agents Registration Act and why the Department of Justice had failed to bring the Qatari operation into compliance.
This occurred in 2019 when Emhoff was still a partner at DLA Piper, though he was not involved with that particular case, that was part of a relationship with Qatar that predated his time there.
DLA Piper however also entered into an agreement with the Palestine Monetary Authority for $600,000 to “strengthen its relationship with the American government” signed with PMA boss Jihad Al Wazir. As of 2019, DLA Piper was still representing the ‘banking arm of the PLO and sending out invitations to members of Congress to meet with then PMA head Azzam Shawwa. By 2021, the PMA had become DLA Piper’s largest foreign principal.
The Palestine Monetary Authority came to prominence after a lawsuit by the family of a terror victim. Yaron Ungar, an American, along with his wife were murdered by Islamic terrorists in Israel. The family sued the PLO and Hamas and won a sizable judgment against the terrorists.
Since the terrorist groups aren’t themselves in America, the Palestine Monetary Authority, which manages funds from the terrorist area’s ‘banks’ had its assets frozen leading to an extended legal battle. The PMA claimed to be an independent entity but lawyers representing the terror victim’s surviving son pointed out that initial capital came out of the PLO’s ‘Palestinian Authority’, that its “its shortfall was to be paid by the PA, and its profits were to be paid to the PA. As to management, the PMA’s governor is appointed by the PA chairman as are its board members, their salaries are determined by him, and he has the right to terminate the PMA board members and officers. Additionally, the Ungars showed that the PMA regularly used the PA’s letterhead.”
While law firms can take on all sorts of clients and Douglas Emhoff did not appear to have been involved in the Palestine Monetary Authority case, as a partner he likely benefited from the overall prosperity of the firm and politically he and Kamala might have benefited from the relationships created through his role at one of the top big government law firms.
Freedom Center Investigates previously found that Kamala Harris began receiving political donations from lawyers at firms where Emhoff was a partner beginning with their marriage and then his move to DLA Piper after she became a senator.
But beyond that there is a complex triangle of relationships between the Biden administration, the Palestine Monetary Authority and DLA Piper.
The Biden administration appointed George Salem as the chairman of the USAID’s ‘Partnership for Peace Fund’ tasked with handing out $250 million to Israeli and ‘Palestinian’ peace projects just three months after he had spent six years as a registered foreign agent for the Palestine Monetary Authority.
Salem had previously lobbied for Qatar’s Al Jazeera, also represented by DLA Piper, and had entered into what the firm describes as having “entered into a relationship as Strategic Advisor with DLA Piper”. When Salem was appointed to head the $250 million fund, DLA Piper issued a press release.
A few things that Emhoff’s former law firm didn’t mention is that Salem was a co-founder of various anti-Israel groups, sat on the board of the American Task Force on Palestine and of UNRWA USA, and had also represented the Hamas front group, the ‘Holy Land Foundation’, Salem was not only its lawyer, but had supported HLF even before charges were brought against it. And Salem, a longtime figure in political circles, had donated to DLA Piper’s PAC.
Kamala had started as an insider in California Democrat politics, but even though she only spent a brief amount of time in the Senate, her husband’s very profitable law firms brought the Emhoff-Harris family into contact with foreign influence and foreign money in D.C.
Freedom Center Investigates had previously reported on the intersection between Emhoff’s previous law firm and its Cuban business, and Kamala’s opposition to the embargo on the Communist dictatorship. Similar questions might be asked about the intersection of Kamala’s hostility to Israel and the problematic and even terrorist clients of her husband’s law firm.
DLA Piper has represented Israeli companies and clients, but the relationship to the Palestine Monetary Authority and Qatar, is troubling, and raises questions about the Emhoff-Harris family.
Democrats have long used Douglas Emhoff, Kamala’s husband, who was raised in a Jewish family, as a defense against critics noting her troubling political views, but Emhoff’s law firm connections raise their own issues, both apart from his wife and perhaps reflective of her.
Kamala’s husband did not personally represent terrorists, terrorist sponsors or terrorist-linked entities during his time at DLA Piper (one of his clients at a previous law firm was however an arms dealer who was since charged and plead guilty) but he benefited from a firm that did.
In Washington D.C., it’s a better idea to follow the money than to follow the speeches. Kamala and her husband have made plenty of speeches, but more importantly, they cashed the checks.
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There is absolutely no way this will ever reach the mainstream media. No chance whatsoever.
money and power are their gods
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DLA Piper has represented Israeli companies and clients, but the relationship to the Palestine Monetary Authority and Qatar, is troubling, and raises questions about the Emhoff-Harris family.
Things I should have remembered and didn't. Kamala and Doug get their money from radicals.
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Jew hating Jews... What’s up with that? How obtuse can you be?
If we had a REAL, honest media ... this would be on every newscast. But, alas, we don’t.
It’s up to conservative media/emails/tweets/etc to get this info out.
The left has done such a great job of dumbing down our society, though, that the unwashed masses don’t have an inkling who the PLO is/was.
Not surprised.
This is the Harris two-facism in a nutshell: “To aspire to create wealth is a good thing.”
” I on the other hand, have chosen to live a life of public service,’ Kamala had claimed.
But Harris’ “life of public service” helped land her husband’s lucrative role at DLA Piper law firm.
DLA Piper was good to Harris with Emhoff making $2.7 million in 2019 and $1.2 million in 2020.
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WIKI
As of 2014, there are six major law firms structured as Swiss vereins, each averaging 3,100 attorneys and 46 offices in 33 countries (Dentons being the largest law firm worldwide by lawyer headcount):
Baker McKenzie (numerous national partnerships)
Dentons (Canadian, Chinese, European, UK and US partnerships)
DLA Piper (US and international partnerships)
King & Wood Mallesons (Australian, Chinese, Hong Kong and European partnerships—though the European branch collapsed in 2017)
Norton Rose Fulbright (US and international partnerships)
Squire Patton Boggs (US, UK and Australian partnerships)
Accounting firms structured as Swiss associations include:
Crowe Horwath International
Deloitte (until July 31, 2010)
KPMG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_association
Her ‘Jewish’ husband? My, my.
communists are always antiJewish and antiChristian. it is simple, really.
the Biblical faith traditions teach about God and how to live moral, ethical lives. These things are anathema to commies and nazis. They prefer themselves as the gods.
So the real enemy has made it to within striking distance.
NO! NO! NO!
Of course...this means Harris will get more Jewish votes than Biden.
Golden Calf Jew.
This is silly. They’re upset about a global law firm employing a presidential candidate’s spouse doing business with Qatar? Seriously? I don’t recall any questions about Jared Kushner doing business with, and getting hundreds of
Millions from, Qatar during his tenure at the White House. And it’s cute how the article refers to money the Emhoff-Harris family “got” from DLA Piper when the money is clearly Emhoff’s salary.
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