Posted on 04/16/2019 5:59:26 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Because Sara is the only journalist reporting on it.
Not really. sundance, at CTH reported on this, earlier in the day, with an excellent breakdown....
It is time to stop the pretense that the House is interested in the welfare of the country. The House is in enemy hands and engaged in a conspiracy to overthrow the US government.
So true, and done in another form by Paul Ryan, who refused to use his majority to do anything to advance Trumps agenda.
The Donald is playing “ wack a mole” with these representatives. The more they attack him, the more he shows us how corrupt all of them are, with a few exceptions who are really there to “ represent the people”
This is an club designed to make them all rich on various schemes that would get the rest of us arrested.
The process being highlighted by Jim Jordan is the weaponization of Pelosis committee effort for maximum political gain The Mueller Report plays a key role in this Pelosi plan. I have no doubt the Mueller Team has fully briefed the Pelosi Team on the full and unredacted content of their investigative findings.
Pelosi, Schumer, media allies and all of the key narrative engineers have a roll-out timed to kick off on Thursday with the release of the Mueller report.
Agree. MuleHead has his own hide to protect, so you know he has let some stuff out, and the MSM won’t point out to the sheeple, that if this were them they wouldn’t want anything that didn’t result in a “ criminal referral” to ever see the light of day.
Example: I think they were planning to rob a bank, kill someone, etc. But never did it. Therefore we can’t charge them with anything.
Think of the depths the Dems will go to use anything. After all the Steele Dossier was designed with that type of “ national enquirer” non proved stuff to start this whole thing with.
Meanwhile the Clintons, and even the investigator get away with Uranium One that is a real danger to our country.
A Freeper posted he was on a cruise in the islands......they cruised past a magnificent oceanfront home.
They were told Biden's (cough) "brother" owns it and that a private plane carrying Joe and his family are frequent visitors.
cont.
Nothing will be done about it. RATS get free passes.
Nancy Pelosi's Husband Snared In SunEdison Stock Scandal
The Daily Bail ^ | 04-10-2019/ FR Posted by Kevin in California
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosis husband bought up to a quarter million dollars of stock in SunEdison, a now financially troubled green energy company just weeks before it announced a major 2014 acquisition that sent its stock price soaring. SunE's 2014 purchase of wind energy company First Wind further bolstered the reputation of the company, wrote one market-watcher at the time. Perhaps unsurprisingly, SunEdisons stock soared 29% on news of this acquisition alone.
Pelosi has a well-earned reputation for shady stock purchases herself, getting shares in lucrative IPOs and
trading on inside information gleaned through Congressional meetings. Martha Stewart served 5 months in
prison for similar insider trading.
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CIRCA 2014--PELOSIS HUSBAND SNARED IN INSIDER STOCK DEAL
Paul Pelosi Invested in SunEdison Weeks Before First Wind Purchase
WASHINGTON-- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosis husband bought up to a quarter million dollars of stock in SunEdison, a now financially troubled green energy company just weeks before it announced a major 2014 acquisition that sent its stock price soaring. SunE's 2014 purchase of wind energy company First Wind further bolstered the reputation of the company, wrote one market-watcher at the time. Perhaps unsurprisingly, SunEdisons stock soared 29% on news of this acquisition alone.
Pelosis husband, Paul Pelosi, had invested just in time. He bought between $100,000 and $250,000 in SunEdison stock on Oct. 24, 2014, according to congressional financial disclosures. The company announced its First Wind acquisition on Nov. 17.
Pelosi has previously been accused of trading stock based on information gleaned through her official duties. A law passed in the wake of that controversy prohibits members of Congress from using nonpublic information for personal gain. Language in that measure was informally dubbed the 'Pelosi Provision.' Pelosis office did not respond to questions about the timing of the purchase and whether she or her husband had any advance knowledge of the deal.
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THIS IS A MUST WATCH
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BUSTED NANCY SUFFERS MELTDOWN
The clip starts automatically at the perfect moment. Pelosi is asked by Steve Croft about getting
lucrative IPO shares in VISA while she was fighting a bill in Congress that would hurt VISA.
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GOP to push 'Pelosi Provision' in insider-trading bill
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THE PELOSI'S WEALTH
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THE GREAT PROGNOSTICATOR----"Trump is not going to be president"
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Exclusive Joe Biden Steered $1.8 Billion to Ukraine While His Son Bagged Sweetheart Deal from Their Government
ROBERT KRAYCHIK, 3 Apr 2019
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News, recalled how Hunter Biden, Joe Bidens second son, received millions of dollars from Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings while his father directed $1.8 billion in aid money to Ukraine as vice president during the Obama administration. Schweizer joined Tuesdays edition of SiriusXMs Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak. Schweizer said, I think a deeper problem that [Joe Biden] faces is as has been reported on Breitbart and reported at the Hill, today which I think is far deeper is the fact that his family, particularly his son, cashed in while he was vice president of the United States.
John Solomon reported on Hunter Bidens receiving millions of dollars from Burisma Holdings after being installed on the companys board during his fathers vice presidential tenure: U.S. banking records show Hunter Bidens American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its accounts usually more than $166,000 a month from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia.
The general prosecutors official file for the Burisma probe shared with me by senior Ukrainian officials shows prosecutors identified Hunter Biden, business partner Devon Archer and their firm, Rosemont Seneca, as potential recipients of money.
Shokin told me in written answers to questions that, before he was fired as general prosecutor, he had made specific plans for the investigation that included interrogations and other crime-investigation procedures into all members of the executive board, including Hunter Biden. Weve talked before about the deals he procured with the government for China, remembered Schweizer. The other place [Joe Bidens] son, Hunter Biden, procured a big deal was in Ukraine. In Ukraine, it involved an energy company called Burisma, which is a very corrupt organization headed by an oligarch named Mykola Zlochevsky who is very close to Viktor Yanukovich, the pro-Russian leader.
Schweizer asked, Theres all kinds of questions and implications. Is there a Russian component to this, because Burisma is such a corrupt company? The bottom line is Joe Biden was the Obama administrations point-person on policy towards Ukraine, noted Schweizer. He steered $1.8 billion in aid to that government and while he was doing so, his son got a sweetheart deal with this energy company that weve been able to trace over just a 14-month period paid $3.1 million into an account where Hunter Biden was getting paid.
Schweizer highlighted Hunter Bidens lack of professional or experiential bona fides in terms of his board position at Burisma Holdings.Suffice to say, Hunter Biden has no background in Ukraine, stated Schweizer. He has no background in energy policy. Theres really no legitimate explanation as to why he got this deal with this energy company, other than the fact his father was responsible for doling out money in Ukraine itself.
Schweizer went on, Its a huge problem, and it goes to this question of corruption and potential payoffs and bribes that these foreign entities were making to the Bidens in exchange for hopefully getting favorable treatment. Despite the Robert Mueller-led operations ostensible pursuit of collusion between President Donald Trump and the Russian state, Schweizer noted actual financial dealings between the Biden family and foreign interests.
Schweizer said, One of the phrases that has been tossed around as it relates to the Russian collusion hoax was obstruction of justice by Trump, and theres been no at least in my mind evidence that that ever happened, and it doesnt seem that Mueller felt any charges should be brought on that count. But in this case, you would have a pretty clear-cut case of obstruction of justice, where Joe Biden is saying to Ukrainian officials, We are not going to give you this billion-dollar loan guarantee unless you fire this guy.'
Schweizer added, There is far more evidence of collusion involving Joe Biden or even involving the Clintons of collusion with these foreign powers than there was with Donald Trump, because you actually have the transaction of money, you have very favorable policies that were carried out. I think collusion is not too strong a word. I think its a pretty accurate word. Schweizer added, Theres no question. The Bidens got a lot of money millions of dollars from these foreign powers. Hunter Biden had no legitimate reasons to get the deal. He simply wasnt qualified.
Schweizer warned of politicians and officials monetizing their political influence.
During the Obama Admin, then-VP Joe Biden took his son Hunter on an official trip to China.
China then gave Hunter a billion dollar check for his hedge fund .... making it likely that Biden sold out the United States to China.
"Middle-class Joe," as he refers to himself has done very well in Democrat politics. And what was Obama's cut of the Biden deals?
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INSIDE THE SHADY PRIVATE EQUITY FUND OF BIDEN AND KERRY'S KIDS
EXCERPT--Peter Schweizer in his new book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, details a number of ethical violations on both sides of the political aisle. One example: the little-noticed private equity firm run by the sons of Democrats Joe Biden and John Kerry, as detailed in this exclusive first excerpt.
The two men became close while serving for several decades together in the US Senate. The two often talked on matters of foreign policy, says Jules Witcover in his Biden biography.So their sons going into business together in June 2009 was not exactly a bolt out of the blue. But with whom their sons cut lucrative deals while the elder two were steering the ship of state is more of a surprise.
What Hunter Biden, the son of Americas vice president, and Christopher Heinz, the stepson of the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (later to be secretary of state), were creating was an international private equity firm. It was anchored by the multi-million Heinz family alternative investment fund, Rosemont Capital. The new firm would be populated by political loyalists and positioned to strike profitable deals overseas with foreign governments and officials with whom the US government was negotiating.
Hunter Biden, Vice President Joe Bidens youngest son, had gone through a series of jobs since graduating from Yale Law School in 1996, including the hedge-fund business. By the summer of 2009, the 39-year-old Hunter joined forces with the son of another powerful figure in American politics, Chris Heinz. Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania had tragically died in a 1991 airplane crash when Chris was 18. Chris, his brothers, and his mother inherited a large chunk of the familys vast ketchup fortune, including a network of investment funds and a Pennsylvania estate, among other properties. In May 1995, his mother, Teresa, married Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. That same year, Chris graduated from Yale, and then went on to get his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Joining them in the Rosemont venture was Devon Archer, a longtime Heinz and Kerry friend. The three friends established a series of related LLCs. The trunk of the tree was Rosemont Capital, the alternative investment fund of the Heinz Family Office. Rosemont Farm is the name of the Heinz familys 90-acre estate outside Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania. The small fund grew quickly. According to an email revealed as part of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, Rosemont described themselves as a $2.4 billion private equity firm co-owned by Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz, with Devon Archer as Managing Partner.The partners attached several branches to the Rosemont Capital trunk, including Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC, Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners, and Rosemont Realty. Of the various deals in which these Rosemont entities were involved, one of the largest and most troubling concerns was Rosemont Seneca Partners.
Rather than set up shop in New York City, the financial capital of the world, Rosemont Seneca leased space in Washington, DC. They occupied an all-brick building on Wisconsin Avenue, the main thoroughfare of exclusive Georgetown. Their offices would be less than a mile from John and Teresa Kerrys 23-room Georgetown mansion, and just two miles from both Joe Bidens office in the White House and his residence at the Naval Observatory. In short, the Chinese government was literally funding a business that it co-owned along with the sons of two of Americas most powerful decision makers.
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Chris Heinz (left) with John Kerry at a campaign fundraiser,
April 16, 2004./ Dennis Van Tine
Hunter and Dad, Joe Biden.
SOURCE http://nypost.com/2018/03/15/inside-the-shady-private-equity-firm-run-by-kerry-and-bidens-kids/
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Hunter Biden also had connections to jailed crook Allen Stanford
WSJ, By Susan Schmidt, Steve Stecklow and John R. Emshwiller, Feb. 24, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET
A fund of hedge funds run by two members of Vice President Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by companies controlled by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who is facing Securities and Exchange Commission accusations of engaging in an $8 billion fraud.
The $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and a Stanford Financial Group entity and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund. Stanford-related companies marketed the fund to investors......--snip--rest at WSJ paywall
CIRCA 2010 Bank at center of Maxine Waters controversy got $12 million Obama-era bailout despite reviews
(husband owned stock in bank)
SOURCE: THE HILL, BY SUSAN CRABTREE - 09/15/10
A community bank at the center of an ethics investigation that has ensnared Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) received a $12 million bailout even though Treasury Department officials knew it had a record of failing to serve its communitys lending needs.
Boston-based OneUnited Bank had a history of receiving poor performance evaluations, and officials at Treasury and the FDIC were aware of the negative ratings and discussed them before doling out the loan, according to e-mails and other documents Judicial Watch obtained from the Treasury Department through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Waters is accused of intervening to help OneUnited secure a meeting with Treasury officials, even though her husband owned stock in the bank and previously served on its board. After a months-long investigation, the House ethics committee charged Waters with three counts of violating House ethics rules. The committees report also said Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) warned Waters about the conflict of interest and then advocated on behalf of OneUnited himself.
Waters denied any wrongdoing, mounted an aggressive defense and has opted to make her case in a public trial to take place sometime this fall.
One e-mail produced from the FOIA request sent from former Treasury Senior Adviser Michael Scott to Director of the Office of Financial Institutions Mario Ugoletti is dated Sept. 15, 2008, months before banks were selected to receive bailout funds. The e-mail cites a 2004 evaluation criticizing the banks service to the state of Massachusetts. The report noted that in 2002 and 2003, the bank administered just one loan.
While the institution received a CRA rating of ‘Low Satisfactory’ on an overall basis, OneUnited Banks CRA rating for Massachusetts was ‘Needs to Improve’ for both the Lending Test and the Investment Test, evaluators wrote in their report. Under the Lending Test, the report stated that ‘OUB has done a poor job of meeting the credit needs of its [Boston, MA] assessment area. A review of the 2002 and 2003 HMDA
data revealed a total of one loan. There were no reported Community Development Loans (CDL) and any innovative or flexible lending programs were apparently ineffective.
The report was equally critical of the banks failure to invest in any Boston-area entities, calling it a concern. “In Florida, the institution received a CRA rating of Substantial Noncompliance, which also represented the subordinate rating for the Lending Test The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) requires the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council to assess the institutions record of meeting the credit needs of its community, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. The front page of each of the evaluation notes that it should not be construed as an assessment of the financial condition of this institution.
The Treasury documents, which were heavily redacted, also include a memo titled Regulatory Financial Highlights that contains detailed financial information related to OneUnited, as well as a summary of information collected by Treasury during its investigation of the bank. The documents show OneUnited was seeking government assistance because the company owned $52 million in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stock, which was irrevocably impaired when the government seized control of the two GSEs.
On Sept. 11, 2008, Scott e-mailed Ugoletti an e-mail that noted the CRA reports and also appeared to criticize OneUnited Bank for purchasing stock in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the first quarter of 2008, well after the negative CRA reports, when the housing market was already hemorrhaging. Also, it appears from her note below that they purchased all of heir [sic] Fannie/Freddie stock in the first quarter of this year. Interesting, huh? he wrote.
Ugoletti later e-mailed an article to colleagues about an FDIC crackdown on OneUnited for unsound lending and excessive executive perks that included a 2008 Porsche and a housing allowance for a beach-front home in California.
A subsequent e-mail dated Dec. 30 from Ugoletti highlights OneUniteds inclusion on an announced list of local banks receiving Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds. Treasury has produced 639 pages in response to Judicial Watchs FOIA request, but withheld 203 pages.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the documents suggest that without the powerful intervention of Frank and Waters, OneUnited would not have received the $12 million bailout. And these documents show that this so-called community bank wasnt actually lending much to the community that Frank and Waters were purporting to help, he said.
The ethics committee did not criticize Frank in its report.
Waters did not comment for this article. She has admitted that she arranged a meeting between Treasury officials and the National Bankers Association (NBA), a trade association that represents 140 minority-owned banks, including OneUnited. But she said she would never take extraordinary steps to protect her husbands investments.
Waters has claimed her only motivation for setting up the Treasury meeting was helping minority banks, an issue on which she has long been active. In the Wall Street reform bill, for example, Waters added several provisions to protect women and minorities. “Neither my staff nor I engaged in any improper behavior; we did not influence anyone; and we did not gain any benefit,” Waters said. “This case is not just about me. This case is about access, about access to those who are not heard by people in power.”
Waters has asserted she had no role in OneUniteds eventual receipt of more than $12 million in TARP funds and she was unaware of any poor credit and lending ratings it had received. She has also said members of Congress depend on regulatory agencies to investigate and ferret out bad practices in financial institutions.
Mikael Moore, Waterss chief of staff and grandson, said e-mails he exchanged with OneUnited officials in late September cited in the ethics committees report do not indicate he was trying to help them secure TARP funds. He said an e-mail he sent to OneUnited contained a publicly available draft of the TARP legislation, not language drafted specifically to help the bank.
Moore pointed to an e-mail he received from Neel Kashkari, who at the time in question was the assistant Treasury secretary in charge of the Office of Financial Stability, which was established to buy troubled financial assets under TARP.
In the e-mail, Kashkari said the Sept. 9, 2008, meeting between OneUnited executives and Treasury officials did not in any way influence his decision to award the bank $12 million in federal funds.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/119099-bank-at-center-of-waters-controversy-got-12m-bailout
Wisconsin?
I can’t even see it from Staten Island! :)
(hat tip Skywise)
DEMOCRATS EIGHT COMMANDMENTS (they actually believe in something)
Defending the citizens of the republic is now fascism.
If you dont let illegal immigrants invade your country - youre a fascist.
If you dont submit to communism youre a fascist.
If you dont turn over your guns to prove you wont be violent - youre a fascist.
If you actually use the banks and commerce to silence opposing viewpoints to communism youre stopping bullying.
If you use threats of violence (Maxine, Obama, antifa, Hillary, Pelosi) and actually shoot republicans, youre a hero.
If you use social media to silence conservatives, youre aiding the cause.
If you vilify Pres Trump and his followers, in Hollywood you get an award.
If it’s ‘secret’ how do we know about it?.......................
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