Note.
It's sad, but
unless you watch Fox News,
you would never know that
Joe Biden bragged on a
2018 video that he extorted
the then Ukraine president
in 2016 to fire his prosecutor,
Viktor Shokin, who was
investigating Burisma,
a Ukraine gas company,
that among other things,
paid son Hunter Biden
$83,000 a month,
and also paid
his business partner
Devon Archer,
$83,000 a month too,
just to brag that both men
were on the Burisma board
of directors while Joe Biden
was Vice president, and
in change of Ukraine relations,
per President Obama.
The men did not actually
attend board meetings --
it was a no show "job".
Primary source:
https://nypost.com/2020/01/18/how-five-members-of-joe-bidens-family-got-rich-through-his-connections/
Primary source:
https://nypost.com/2020/01/18/how-five-members-of-joe-bidens-family-got-rich-through-his-connections/
Clinton Cash author
Peter Schweizer
is out with a new book,
"Profiles in Corruption:
Abuse of Power by
America’s Progressive
Elite."
He reveals that
five members
of the Biden family,
including Hunter,
got rich using former
Vice President
Joe Biden's
"largesse, favorable
access and powerful
position."
Joe Biden's brothers,
James and Frank,
his sister Valerie,
and his son-in-law
Howard, all used
the former VP's status
to enrich themselves.
Biden lied in 2019,
saying "I never talked
with my son or my brother
or anyone else
— even distant family
— about their business
interests. Period."
James Biden:
Joe's younger
brother.
James served
as the finance
chairman of
Joe's 1972
Senate campaign.
And when Joe became VP,
James was a frequent guest
at the White House - scoring
invites to important state
functions which often
"dovetailed with his
overseas business
dealings,"
writes Schweizer.
HillStone International,
is a subsidiary of the huge
construction management
firm, Hill International:
Kevin Justice, president
of HillStone International,
grew up in Delaware,
and was a longtime
Biden family friend.
On
November 4, 2010,
according to
White House
visitors’ logs,
Justice visited
the White House
and met with Biden
adviser Michele Smith
in the Office of the
Vice President.
Less than
three weeks later,
HillStone announced
that James Biden
would be
joining the firm
as an executive
vice president.
James had little or no
background in housing
construction, but that
did not seem to matter.
James Biden was joining
HillStone just as the firm
was starting negotiations
to win a massive contract
in war-torn Iraq.
Six months later,
the firm announced
a contract to build
100,000 homes.
It was part of a $35 billion,
500,000-unit project deal
won by TRAC Development,
a South Korean company.
HillStone also received
a $22 million U.S. federal
government contract
to manage a construction
project for the State Department.
-Peter Schweizer, via NY Post
According to Fox Business's
Charlie Gasparino in 2012,
HillStone's Iraq project
was expected to
"generate
$1.5 billion
in revenues
over the next
three years,"
more than tripling
their revenue.
According to the report,
James Biden split roughly
$735 million with a group
of minority partners.
David Richter
The son of HillStone's
parent company's founder
allegedly told investors
at a private meeting;
it really helps to have
"the brother of the
vice president
as a partner."
Unfortunately for James,
HillStone had to back out
of the major contract
in 2013 over a series
of problems, including
a lack of experience.
In the ensuing years,
James Biden profited
off of Hill's lucrative
contracts for dozens
of projects in the US,
Puerto Rico, Mozambique
and elsewhere.
Frank Biden:
Another brother,
profited handsomely
on real estate, casinos,
and solar power projects
after Joe Biden was picked
as Obama's point man
in Latin America and
the Caribbean.
Months after Joe
visited Costa Rica,
Frank partnered
with developer
Craig Williamson and the
Guanacaste Country Club
on a deal which appears
to be ongoing.
Frank’s vision for a country club
in Costa Rica received support
from the highest levels
of the Costa Rican government
— despite his lack of experience
in building such developments.
He met with the Costa
Rican ministers of education
and energy and environment,
as well as the president
of the country. -NY Post
And in 2016, the Costa Rican
Ministry of Public Education
inked a deal
with Frank's Company,
Sun Fund Americas to install
solar power facilities
across the country
- a project the Obama
administration's OPIC
authorized $6.5 million
in taxpayer funds to support.
Frank Biden's
Sun Fund Americas
announced later that it
had signed a power
purchase agreement (PPA)
to build a 20-megawatt
solar facility in Jamaica.
Valerie Biden-Owens,
Joe's sister
Valerie has run all
Joe's Senate campaigns,
and his 1988 and 2008
presidential runs.
She was also a senior partner
in political messaging firm
Joe Slade White & Company,
where she and Slade White
were listed as the
only two executives
at the time.
According to Schweizer,
"The firm received large fees
from the Biden campaigns
that Valerie was running.
Two and a half million dollars
in consulting fees flowed
to her firm from Citizens
for Biden and Biden
For President Inc.
during the 2008
presidential bid
alone."
Dr. Howard Krein
Joe Biden's son-in-law.
Krein is the chief
medical officer of
StartUp Health
- a medical investment
cbarely up and running
when, in June 2011,
two of the company's
executives
met with Joe Biden
and President Obama
in the Oval Office.
The next day,
the company was
included in a prestigious
health care tech conference
run by the Department
of Health and Human Services
( HHS )
- while StartUp Health
executives became regular
White House visitors
between 2011 and 2015.
StartUp Health offers
to provide new companies
technical and relationship
advice in exchange for
a stake in the business.
Demonstrating and
highlighting the fact
that you can score
a meeting with the
president of the
United States
certainly
helps prove
a strategic
company asset:
High-level contacts.
- New York Post
Krein said:
"I happened to be talking to my father-in-law that day and I mentioned Steve and Unity were down there [in Washington, D.C.],
He knew about StartUp Health and was a big fan of it.
He asked for Steve’s number and said, ‘I have to get them up here to talk with Barack.’
The Secret Service came and got Steve and Unity and brought them to the Oval Office."
Hunter Biden:
With the election of his father
as vice president, Hunter Biden
launched businesses fused
to his father’s power.
Sometimes he would hitch
a prominent ride with his father
aboard Air Force Two to visit
a country where he was
courting business.
They involved foreign entities
that appeared to be seeking
something from his father.
Hunter was involved
with an entity called
Burnham Financial Group,
where his business partner
Devon Archer — who’d been
at Yale with Hunter —
sat on the board of directors.
Burnham became the vehicle
for a number of deals abroad,
involving connected oligarchs
in Kazakhstan and state-owned
businesses in China.
The most troubling Burnham
venture was in the U.S.:
A federal investigation
involving a $60 million
fraud scheme against
one of the poorest
Indian tribes
in America,
the Oglala Sioux.
Devon Archer was arrested
in New York in May 2016
and charged with
“orchestrating a scheme
to defraud investors
and a Native American
tribal entity of tens
of millions of dollars.”
Other victims of the
fraud included several
public and union
pension plans.
Hunter Biden was not
charged in the case.
The “legitimacy” that
the name Hunter Biden
son lent to the plan
was brought up
repeatedly
in the trial.
- NY Post
