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New York Post, May 11, 2023\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

How the Biden corruption empire ran under the radar for so long<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

I know Romanian corruption.<\/p>\n

When I was exiting the country in 1987 after investigating its collapsing<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The program was a smashing success: Though Romania remained profoundly corrupt, Biden family members received more than $1 million from Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu<\/a>. He was convicted for corruption even though Hunter Biden flew to Bucharest to testify on his behalf before the National Anticorruption Directorate.<\/p>\n

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer<\/a> declared Wednesday, \u201cWhile 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.\u201d Comer noted that \u201cthe money stops flowing from the Romanian national soon after Joe Biden leaves the vice presidency.\u201d Former US Treasury official Phil Stephenson testified in 2017 that the Romanian \u201cfight against corruption itself has been corrupted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Romania is only the tip of the iceberg of payoffs that the Biden family \u2014 including Joe\u2019s grandkids \u2014 pocketed from shady foreigners.<\/p>\n

A House Oversight Committee analysis exposed \u201cthe Biden family\u2019s pattern of courting business in regions of the world in which the then Vice President had an outsize role and influenced U.S. policy.\u201d The Committee asserts the Bidens and their associates \u201cestablished a network of over 20 companies\u201d that collected at least $10 million from abroad. \u201cThe Bidens took steps to hide, confuse, and conceal payments they received from foreign nationals.\u201d<\/p>\n

How did Biden get away with being so squirrely for so long?<\/p>\n

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 \u201cpolitically exposed persons\u201d \u2014 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 \u201cdo not interpret the term \u2018politically exposed persons\u2019 to include U.S. public officials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Banks and other entities filed 170 suspicious-activity reports tied to foreign payments the Biden family or their associates allegedly received. I predicted here<\/a> March 24 that Biden could \u201cface far greater peril\u201d from the Treasury Department\u2019s release of those SARs.<\/p>\n

But the red flags were ignored because Biden \u2014 like every other American politician \u2014 was presumptively innocent.<\/p>\n

Our politicians are incorruptible? \u201cTell it to the Marines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden announced in June 2021, \u201cThe United States will lead by example\u201d to \u201cfight the scourge of corruption\u201d and support \u201ccourageous citizens around the globe who are demanding honest, transparent governance.\u201d A White House statement promised to \u201ccrack down\u201d on \u201cillicit financing\u201d that generates \u201cpernicious foreign influence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Was there a secret asterisk exempting anyone named Biden?<\/p>\n

Denouncing corruption is the easiest way for rascally politicians to appear honest. US government anti-corruption campaigns have been a perpetual sham or a pretext for shakedowns.<\/p>\n

In 2010, President Barack Obama<\/a> proclaimed at the United Nations that the US government is \u201cleading a global effort to combat corruption.\u201d The following year, House Republicans sought to end US foreign aid for corrupt regimes. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wailed that restricting handouts to nations that fail anti-corruption tests \u201chas the potential to affect a staggering number of needy aid recipients.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obama sent Biden to Afghanistan to admonish President Hamid Karzai to stop the corruption that was destabilizing that nation and spurring the Taliban\u2019s rebound. No such luck. \u201cOur biggest single project, sadly and inadvertently,\u201d Obama\u2019s ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, later admitted, \u201cmay have been the development of mass corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a 2015 speech to the Ukrainian parliament, Biden denounced the \u201ccancer of corruption.\u201d But the previous year, his son Hunter jumped on the Burisma gravy train, collecting a $1 million salary<\/a> for a ceremonial position.<\/p>\n

Biden declared in 2019: \u201cI did nothing wrong. I carried out the policy of the US government in rooting out corruption in Ukraine.\u201d He failed miserably. The International Monetary Fund recognized that year that its $20 billion in loans to Ukraine were a bust, thanks to the government\u2019s decades of \u201cbroken promises\u201d and \u201csystemic corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

Americans would have learned little or nothing about Biden\u2019s foreign money machine if Republicans had not captured the House of Representatives in November. Comer said his investigation is still in the \u201cbeginning stages.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCorruption is just another form of tyranny,\u201d Biden told the Romanian parliament<\/a> in 2014. Americans are still learning how our democracy is being subverted by this form of Biden tyranny. The one certainty is that there is far more \u201cpernicious foreign influence\u201d than Washington admits.<\/p>\n

James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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