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World News See other World News Articles Title: How the Biden corruption empire ran under the radar for so long I know Romanian corruption. When I was exiting the country in 1987 after investigating its collapsing economy, I made sure to bribe every guard who searched my luggage at the Bucharest airport with a pack of Kent cigarettes. But I neglected to give a pack to the soldier on the tarmac as I walked to my Lufthansa flight. He was soon screaming and waving his submachine gun in my direction. Whoops. After the fall of the Communist regime, the US State Department launched a program to help Romania curtail corruption. Vice President Joe Biden masterminded that effort from 2009 to 2016. The program was a smashing success: Though Romania remained profoundly corrupt, Biden family members received more than $1 million from Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu. He was convicted for corruption even though Hunter Biden flew to Bucharest to testify on his behalf before the National Anticorruption Directorate. James Comer House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., accompanied by House Republicans, speaks on their investigation into the Biden Family. AP/Andrew Harnik House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer declared Wednesday, “While Vice President Biden was lecturing Romania on anti-corruption policies, in reality he was a walking billboard for his son and family to collect money.” Comer noted that “the money stops flowing from the Romanian national soon after Joe Biden leaves the vice presidency.” Former US Treasury official Phil Stephenson testified in 2017 that the Romanian “fight against corruption itself has been corrupted.” Romania is only the tip of the iceberg of payoffs that the Biden family — including Joe’s grandkids — pocketed from shady foreigners. A House Oversight Committee analysis exposed “the Biden family’s pattern of courting business in regions of the world in which the then Vice President had an outsize role and influenced U.S. policy.” JOE BIDEN Biden faces allegations he was making international business deals to benefit his family. Robert Miller The Committee asserts the Bidens and their associates “established a network of over 20 companies” that collected at least $10 million from abroad. “The Bidens took steps to hide, confuse, and conceal payments they received from foreign nationals.” How did Biden get away with being so squirrely for so long? US money-laundering regulations are practically designed to shroud crimes by American politicians. Federal agencies require banks to take far more precautions when handling financial transactions involving “politically exposed persons” — which includes almost all foreign politicians, their family members, friends, associates and anyone else likely to take the money and run. But as a 2020 federal regulatory notice declared, federal banking agencies “do not interpret the term ‘politically exposed persons’ to include U.S. public officials.” Banks and other entities filed 170 suspicious-activity reports tied to foreign payments the Biden family or their associates allegedly received. I predicted here March 24 that Biden could “face far greater peril” from the Treasury Department’s release of those SARs. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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