But the real worry is that these known cases are likely just a small fraction of the total corruption that goes on these days, corruption that wastes our tax dollars, corrupts our elections and judicial processes, and which benefit no one else but American politicians.
The inspiration for this series came from a meme I came across on Facebook which read: “They printed $8 trillion for covid relief, gave you a measly $1,400, and kept the rest for themselves.” I believe that the $8 trillion number is high, it is probably around $5 trillion, but the premise still holds water: after we got our crumbs, what happened to the other trillions of dollars?
Let’s go find out:
1) Hunter Biden is President Joe Biden’s son. It is no secret that he has been traveling around the world and leveraging his father’s political positions in the U.S. government for years for his personal gain. And now that charade is starting to come apart at the seams:
- CBS correspondent Catherine Herridege recently reported that over 150 substantial financial ties to the Biden family, Hunter and James (Joe’s brother), were “flagged as concerning” by various banks in this country.
- Specifically: “CBS News has learned more than 150 financial transactions involving either Hunter or James Biden’s global business affairs were flagged as concerning by U.S. banks for further review. Some of those concerns included large wire transfers.”
- Senators are looking into the situation where James Biden's company, the Lion Hall Group, received payments from a Chinese consulting group in 2018 and that James and Hunter were put on monthly retainers with that company, giving Hunter $100,000 a month and James $65,000 a month.
- A Senate investigation showed that Jame Biden and his wife, Sara, “tapped into a line of credit that Hunter set up with a Chinese business executive to purchase more than $100,000 in airline tickets, hotels, and restaurants.”
2) Years ago the Obama administration started the so-called “Obama Phone” program to get phones into the hands of poor Americans. The program made little sense, why should the Federal government get involved in the cell phone business when there were so many other social needs that needed to be addressed: homelessness, hunger, drug addiction, etc.
Well, years after the program began, we can now see how corrupt and wasteful it was with taxpayer dollars:
- The sole company that Obama selectre to distribute Obama cell phones,TracPhone Wireless, has agreed to pay a $13.4 million fine after it was accused of signing up a whopping 175,000 people that did not qualify for the program.
- The obvious conclusion is that TracPhone did not care if the guidelines were followed since they were going to get paid with U.S. taxpayer money for each and every customer they signed up, rules be damned.
- And it was only years after this corruption went down is that company being held responsible.
- According to the Department of Justice: “The government alleged that TracFone failed to adequately review the applications and did not properly investigate reports of clearly ineligible subscribers enrolled in the program that would have revealed the glitch. After TracFone eventually discovered the software glitch in August 2015, it repaid more than $10.9 million to Lifeline (Obama phone program name), an amount that was credited as part of the $13.4 million settlement.”
- FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel stated that “today’s settlement reflects the FCC’s ongoing commitment to root out waste, fraud and abuse in its universal service programs.”
3) Consider this sick corruption by a heavy election donor up in the state of Maine:
- So-called mega-donor, Eliot Cutler, was recently arrested in Brooklin, Maine.
- He s facing four counts of possession of unlawful sexually explicit material of children.
- He faces up to twenty years in prison and likely faces additional charges.
- Cutler worked in the Carter administration, he worked for Maine Senator Ed Muskie, and twice ran for governor of Maine.
- He has also been a mega-donor to other politicians' election campaigns including Biden, Obama, Senator Bernie Sanders, and to state Democratic parties in at least eight other states.
4) But it's not only failed politicians and election donors that excel in potential corruption, politicians currently in office also have a history of being corrupt. Consider:
- New York state government, home to the perversion and corruption of a recent governor, Andrew Cuomo, has a potential new corruption problem brewing.
- Current Lt. Governor, Brian Benjamin, is under investigation by the Feds and the FBI for allegedly directing fraudulent funds to his failed campaign to become NYC comptroller.
- The Southern District of New York has issued grand jury subpoenas covering his campaign committee, his staffers, and election consulting companies.
- Harlem real estate investor, Gerald Migdol, was charged in 2021 with a variety of crimes along with coming up with a plan to conceal multiple illegal contributions to Benjamin’s election campaign.
Child porn, election campaign law violations, wasted taxpayer money on free phones, and financial shenanigans by a President's family. Oh, we are just getting warmed up on the corruption chronicles.
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