{"id":123113,"date":"2019-05-24T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=123113"},"modified":"2019-05-24T19:13:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T23:13:11","slug":"bidengate-are-you-sure-you-want-to-run-for-potos-joe-with-so-much-documented-offshored-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=123113","title":{"rendered":"BIDENgate: Are you sure you want to run for POTUS, Joe, with so much documented offshored corruption?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>BIDEN MONEY TRAIL EXPOSED IN COURT DOCUMENTS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Former VP &#8216;offshored&#8217; corruption through son<\/h3>\n<p>WND.com<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Drill Down Episode 1: Joe Biden\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lhr7ZoJZ1a8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Primarily through his son Hunter, former vice president and now 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden has been \u201coffshoring\u201d corruption, contends investigative journalist and author Peter Schweizer.<\/p>\n<p>He explains in the first episode of a new series called \u201cThe Drill Down with Peter Schweizer\u201d that bank documents entered in a court case \u201cshed light on just how much money [foreign] oligarchs were sending to the Biden family while he was vice president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As WND reported in an interview story, Schweizer\u2019s 2018 bestselling book \u201cSecret Empires: How Our Politicians Hide Corruption and Enrich Their Families and Friends\u201d spells out the financial deals Hunter Biden\u2019s private equity firm secured in Ukraine and China while his father, as vice president, was negotiating U.S. foreign policy with those countries.<\/p>\n<p>Schweizer\u2019s book centers on what he calls \u201ccorruption by proxy,\u201d in which family and friends of powerful political figures position themselves as middlemen, creating \u201cpreviously unimaginable pathways to wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the Bidens, the records of just one bank account show $3.1 million from the Ukrainians flowed in over an 18-month period, Schweizer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was $142,000 that showed up from a Kazakh oligarch, and then there was a mysterious $1.2 million from a limited liability company that nobody seems to know where it exists [and] that funneled the money to a small Swiss bank that has been implicated in international money laundering,\u201d Schweizer said.<\/p>\n<p>Flowing out of the account, he said, is \u201chundreds of thousands of dollars into the personal banking accounts of Hunter Biden himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another $142,000 went to a luxury auto dealership and another $182,000 to a luxury watch company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is all just from one account,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Schweizer said in an interview this week with Fox News\u2019 Laura Ingraham that Hunter Biden should testify before the U.S. Senate about his dealings with Ukraine and China.<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham noted Schweizer has been far ahead of the New York Times, which this week buried 11 paragraphs inside an article called \u201cTrump\u2019s Demands For An Investigation Of Opponents Draw Intensifying Criticism\u201d the news that in addition to his China and Ukraine connection, Hunter Biden also advised a Romanian businessman who later was convicted and imprisoned for corruption.<\/p>\n<p>When Joe Biden and Hunter Biden went to China in December 2013 and Hunter Biden secured a billion-dollar deal with the Chinese government 10 days later, the media ignored it, Schweizer said.<\/p>\n<p>He told Ingraham \u201cyou and I both know, and I think most Americans know, if the name here was Don Jr. and not Hunter Biden that the media would be all over this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schweizer pointed to the \u201clack of curiosity that a sitting vice president\u2019s son is striking three major deals with the Chinese government while he is steering U.S. policy towards China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deal with Ukraine. All of this stuff. If this was Don Jr, you know he would be sitting in front of Congress, and he should, if he did that. Hunter Biden needs to do that. The Senate needs to ask him to testify.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2019\/05\/biden-money-trail-exposed-in-court-documents\/\">https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2019\/05\/biden-money-trail-exposed-in-court-documents\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIDEN MONEY TRAIL EXPOSED IN COURT DOCUMENTS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}