{"id":1065813,"date":"2021-11-29T18:15:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T23:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1065813"},"modified":"2021-11-29T18:15:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T23:15:51","slug":"exclusive-joe-biden-turned-corruption-into-the-family-business-new-book-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-joe-biden-turned-corruption-into-the-family-business-new-book-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Joe Biden Turned Corruption Into The Family Business, New Book Alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-joe-biden-turned-corruption-into-the-family-business-new-book-alleges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1065813&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Long before Hunter Biden ever considered joining a Ukrainian energy company named Burisma, Joe Biden and his family used his power and position to leverage business deals with businesses seeking his influence, according to a new book. Joe Biden personally benefited from his political influence in a series of fortuitous real estate landfalls, even as virtually every member of the Biden family claimed its own piece of the pie, writes <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/author\/miranda-devine\/\">New York Post columnist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mirandadevine\">Miranda Devine<\/a> in her new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Laptop-Hell-Hunter-Secrets-President\/dp\/163758105X\">Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Joe Biden waged war on white privilege from the White House, his own family was the living embodiment of the worst of it,\u201d writes Devine. \u201cJoe has always made sure the Bidens lived a life of unearned privilege and entitlement under his beneficent patronage,\u201d she continues in the book, which hits store shelves on Tuesday. \u201cLike members of a hereditary&nbsp;aristocracy, the Bidens would have access to the best America can give, the most prestigious educational institutions, internships, clerkships, scholarships, directorships, and government sinecures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Decades ago, the president decided Hunter Biden would act as the family\u2019s cash cow Devine says. \u201cHunter, who would have preferred to be an artist or a writer, was assigned the role of paying the bills for the rest of the family through lucrative grace-and-favor jobs and sweetheart deals facilitated by Joe\u2019s network of connections in Delaware and, later, throughout the world,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to records from his missing laptop showing that Hunter held 10% of a Chinese business deal for \u201cthe big guy,\u201d Devine quotes an email Hunter wrote to his oldest daughter, Naomi, in 2019:<\/p>\n<p><em>I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years. It\u2019s really hard. But don\u2019t worry, unlike Pop, I won\u2019t make you give me half your salary. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hunter later allegedly complained to his aunt, who raised him after his mother\u2019s tragic death, that although Joe Biden co-signed student loans for Hunter and Beau Biden, he expected Hunter to pay off both loans. \u201cDad never paid one dime,\u201d Hunter wrote in an email, the book says.<\/p>\n<p>Devine says she found evidence that Joe Biden benefited from Hunter\u2019s deals in multiple emails, such as one concerning \u201cJRB bills.\u201d In another email, detailed by Devine, dated April 12, 2018, Hunter gets locked out of one of his Wells Fargo accounts, because \u201c[m]y dad has been using most lines on this account which I\u2019ve through the gracious offerings of Eric [Schwerin, a close family adviser] have paid for past 11 years.\u201d &nbsp;When Schwerin writes about the amount of money in \u201cmy\u201d account, his scare quotes imply its contents belong to him in name only.<\/p>\n<p>Devine traces how this began decades earlier, in Delaware.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Biden family grift is \u2018The Delaware Way\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Devine writes that the entire Biden family benefited from the \u201cgrift\u201d run by Joe Biden \u2014 including the future president himself.<\/p>\n<p>In 1975, first-term U.S. Senator Joe Biden bought a \u201cgrand 10,000-square-foot five-bedroom\u201d DuPont mansion, \u201cwith pool house, basketball court, and manicured gardens\u201d for $185,000, Devine writes. &nbsp;In 1996, he would sell the estate for $1.2 million to John Cochran, the vice-chairman of MBNA . Contemporaneous media accounts suggest that\u2019s more than the property was worth \u2014 and Cochran financed that gain while selling his own home in nearby Maryland at a significant loss. Luckily, MBNA reimbursed Cochran $330,115 for making the move.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/2019\/05\/29\/america-is-about-to-find-out-if-lunch-bucket-joe-is-a-man-of-steel\/\">Lunch Bucket Joe<\/a>\u201d upgraded to his next mansion with the help of campaign donors and \u201cbankers with an interest in legislation before the Senate, who bought his old house for top dollar, sold him four acres at cost and lent him $500,000 to build his new home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same year Devine reports, MBNA gave Hunter Biden his first job fresh out of law school, with a salary of $100,000 a year, as well as a <strong><em>signing bonus<\/em><\/strong>. Biden stayed at the firm for two years. He then moved into another <em><strong>$100,000-a-year job<\/strong><\/em> at the Clinton administration\u2019s Commerce Department upon the recommendation of Biden lawyer William Oldaker in 1998, then to Oldaker\u2019s lobbying firm: Oldaker, Biden &amp; Belair.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, MBNA would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mbna-paid-bidens-son-as-biden-backed-bill\/\">strongly support<\/a> a 2005 bankruptcy bill that made it harder for people, including<em><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/joe-biden-bankruptcy-bill\">members of the military<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em> to declare bankruptcy. So would Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Biden family cashes in<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s younger brother, Jimmy Biden, has been a lifelong beneficiary of the Biden name. \u201cIn the 1970s, as Joe was entering the Senate and taking a seat on the Banking Committee, James obtained unusually generous loans from lenders who later faced federal regulatory issues,\u201d Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2019\/08\/02\/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407\/\">noted<\/a>. Devine says \u201cthe grift\u201d would continue, as Jim partnered with Hunter Biden in a series of international investment schemes including in Ukraine and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-hunter-bidens-allegedly-lucrative-arrangement-with-china-energy-fund-committee\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry about investors,\u201d the president\u2019s younger brother Jim Biden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before Hunter Biden ever considered joining a Ukrainian energy company named Burisma, Joe Biden and his family used his power and position to leverage business deals with businesses seeking his influence, according to a new book. Joe Biden personally benefited from his political influence in a series of fortuitous real estate landfalls, even as virtually every member of the Biden family claimed its own piece of the pie, writes New York Post columnist Miranda Devine in her new book, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.\u201cWhile Joe Biden waged war on white privilege from the White House, his own family was the living embodiment of the worst of it,\u201d writes Devine. \u201cJoe has always made sure the Bidens lived a life of unearned privilege and entitlement under his beneficent patronage,\u201d she continues in the book, which hits store shelves on Tuesday. \u201cLike members of a hereditary\u00a0aristocracy, the Bidens would have access to the best America can give, the most prestigious educational institutions, internships, clerkships, scholarships, directorships, and government sinecures.\u201dDecades ago, the president decided Hunter Biden would act as the family\u2019s cash cow Devine says. \u201cHunter, who would have preferred to be an artist or a writer, was assigned the role of paying the bills for the rest of the family through lucrative grace-and-favor jobs and sweetheart deals facilitated by Joe\u2019s network of connections in Delaware and, later, throughout the world,\u201d she writes.In addition to records from his missing laptop showing that Hunter held 10% of a Chinese business deal for \u201cthe big guy,\u201d Devine quotes an email Hunter wrote to his oldest daughter, Naomi, in 2019:I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years. It\u2019s really hard. But don\u2019t worry, unlike Pop, I won\u2019t make you give me half your salary. Hunter later allegedly complained to his aunt, who raised him after his mother\u2019s tragic death, that although Joe Biden co-signed student loans for Hunter and Beau Biden, he expected Hunter to pay off both loans. \u201cDad never paid one dime,\u201d Hunter wrote in an email, the book says.Devine says she found evidence that Joe Biden benefited from Hunter\u2019s deals in multiple emails, such as one concerning \u201cJRB bills.\u201d In another email, detailed by Devine, dated April 12, 2018, Hunter gets locked out of one of his Wells Fargo accounts, because \u201c[m]y dad has been using most lines on this account which I\u2019ve through the gracious offerings of Eric [Schwerin, a close family adviser] have paid for past 11 years.\u201d \u00a0When Schwerin writes about the amount of money in \u201cmy\u201d account, his scare quotes imply its contents belong to him in name only.Devine traces how this began decades earlier, in Delaware.The Biden family grift is \u2018The Delaware Way\u2019Devine writes that the entire Biden family benefited from the \u201cgrift\u201d run by Joe Biden \u2014 including the future president himself.In 1975, first-term U.S. Senator Joe Biden bought a \u201cgrand 10,000-square-foot five-bedroom\u201d DuPont mansion, \u201cwith pool house, basketball court, and manicured gardens\u201d for $185,000, Devine writes. \u00a0In 1996, he would sell the estate for $1.2 million to John Cochran, the vice-chairman of MBNA . Contemporaneous media accounts suggest that\u2019s more than the property was worth \u2014 and Cochran financed that gain while selling his own home in nearby Maryland at a significant loss. Luckily, MBNA reimbursed Cochran $330,115 for making the move.The New York Times reported that \u201cLunch Bucket Joe\u201d upgraded to his next mansion with the help of campaign donors and \u201cbankers with an interest in legislation before the Senate, who bought his old house for top dollar, sold him four acres at cost and lent him $500,000 to build his new home.\u201dThe same year Devine reports, MBNA gave Hunter Biden his first job fresh out of law school, with a salary of $100,000 a year, as well as a signing bonus. Biden stayed at the firm for two years. He then moved into another $100,000-a-year job at the Clinton administration\u2019s Commerce Department upon the recommendation of Biden lawyer William Oldaker in 1998, then to Oldaker\u2019s lobbying firm: Oldaker, Biden &#038; Belair.Meanwhile, MBNA would strongly support a 2005 bankruptcy bill that made it harder for people, including members of the military, to declare bankruptcy. So would Joe Biden.The Biden family cashes inJoe Biden\u2019s younger brother, Jimmy Biden, has been a lifelong beneficiary of the Biden name. \u201cIn the 1970s, as Joe was entering the Senate and taking a seat on the Banking Committee, James obtained unusually generous loans from lenders who later faced federal regulatory issues,\u201d Politico noted. Devine says \u201cthe grift\u201d would continue, as Jim partnered with Hunter Biden in a series of international investment schemes including in Ukraine and China.\u201cDon\u2019t worry about investors,\u201d the president\u2019s younger brother Jim Biden reportedly told investors in his hedge fund, Paradigm Global Advisors. \u201cWe\u2019ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.\u201dSometimes the payoffs came directly from the U.S. taxpayer. Hunter\u2019s aunt Val received an appointment to a United Nations position that paid $26,000 over four months. Her daughters, Hunter\u2019s cousins Missy and Casey, received full-time jobs in the Obama administration, as did Hunter\u2019s business partner, Eric Schwerin.But more often, the Biden family ran private enterprises that seemed to benefit from their family connections. In 2009 Joe Biden\u2019s younger brother, Frank, engaged in casino and real estate deals in Costa Rica, after his brother flew to the isthmus, where he now handled policy for the Obama administration \u2014 much as he handled Ukrainian policy during his tussle with the government over a prosecutor looking into Burisma.Frank touted his relationship with \u201cmy brother\u201d in an advertisement for Boca Raton-based Berman Law Group, which pays Frank as an adviser although he is not a lawyer. As The Daily Wire reported, Frank Biden\u00a0joined\u00a0the environment-focused law firm \u201cthe same day that Joe, then a Democratic presidential candidate, announced his campaign\u2019s environmental plan\u201d in July 2018.Family expectations reached such heights that Devine says, when Jim negotiated for his daughter Caroline Biden \u2014 whom, he emailed Hunter, had never \u201chad a steady work environment\u201d \u2014 to take a marketing position with an $85,000 annual salary, she hit the roof. \u00a0\u201cI have never made this little money in my life,\u201d she replied. \u201cI cannot survive on this.\u201dYet, as Devine notes, the grift went on even as Joe Biden mounted his third presidential campaign.\u201cAren\u2019t you concerned that you\u2019re going to put your brother\u2019s [2020] presidential campaign at risk? You know, the Chinese, the stuff that you guys have been doing already in 2015 and 2016, around the world?\u201d Tony Bobulinski asked brother Jim. \u201cJim chuckled and looked knowingly at Bobulinski,\u201d writes Devine, before telling Bobulinski the Biden clan survives thanks to \u201cplausible deniability.\u201dA Wilmington businessman named Sam Waltz once told Nation magazine, \u201cJoe says that when someone helps his family, it\u2019s just like helping Joe.\u201d If that\u2019s the case, an innumerable group of special interests and foreign governments have helped themselves into Joe Biden\u2019s good favor through the years.LAST CHANCE to SAVE 50% on memberships to The Daily Wire with code DW50. Without our members, none of this would be possible. Join us to keep the mission alive.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}