{"id":18274,"date":"2023-05-15T09:41:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=18274"},"modified":"2023-05-15T11:10:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T15:10:41","slug":"the-biden-crime-family-and-our-corrupt-foreign-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/15\/the-biden-crime-family-and-our-corrupt-foreign-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biden Crime Family and Our Corrupt Foreign Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Biden Crime Family and Our Corrupt Foreign Aid<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

I know Romanian corruption. When I was exiting the country after investigating its collapsing<\/span><\/a> economy in 1987, 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 communism, the U.S. State Department launched a program to help Romania and other East European governments curtail corruption. Vice President Joe Biden masterminded that effort from 2009 to 2016. The program was a smashing success.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Romania remained profoundly corrupt, but Biden family members received more than a million dollars from Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu<\/span><\/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 declared Wednesday, \u201cWhile Vice President Biden was lecturing Romania<\/span><\/a> 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<\/span><\/a> from the Romanian national soon after Joe Biden leaves the vice presidency.\u201d Former U.S. Treasury official Phil Stephenson<\/span><\/a> testified in 2017 that the Romanian \u201cfight against corruption itself has been corrupted<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Romania is only the tip of the iceberg of payoffs that the Biden family\u2014including his grandkids\u2014pocketed from shady foreigners. A long memo from the House Oversight Committee showcased \u201cthe Biden family\u2019s pattern of courting business in<\/span><\/a> regions of the world in which the then Vice President had an outsize role and influenced U.S. policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The House Committee asserts that the Bidens and their associates \u201cestablished a network of over 20 companies\u201d that collected at least $10 million from abroad. The scheme was covert from the get-go: \u201cThe Bidens took steps to hide, confuse, and conceal<\/span><\/a> payments they received from foreign nationals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

U.S. money laundering regulations are designed to shroud crimes by American politicians<\/strong>. Federal agencies require banks to take far more precautions when handling financial transactions involving \u201cpolitically exposed persons\u201d\u2014which 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<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Banks and other entities filed 170 Suspicious Activity Reports<\/span><\/a> (SARs) tied to foreign payments now allegedly received by the Biden family or their associates. I predicted in The New York Post<\/em><\/span><\/a> on March 24 that Biden could \u201cface far greater peril\u201d from the release of those SARs by the Treasury Department. But the red flags were ignored because Biden\u2014like every other American politician\u2014was presumptively innocent, according to federal regulations.<\/p>\n

In June 2021, Biden announced, \u201cThe United States will lead by example\u2026to fight the scourge of corruption\u201d and \u201csupport of courageous citizens around the globe who are demanding honest, transparent governance<\/span><\/a>.\u201d A White House statement promised to \u201ccrack down\u2026on illicit financing\u201d that generates \u201cpernicious foreign<\/span><\/a> influence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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

American politicians have fueled corruption around the world with U.S. foreign aid programs.<\/strong> As a Brookings Institution analysis observed, \u201cThe history of U.S. assistance is littered<\/span><\/a> with tales of corrupt foreign officials using aid to line their own pockets, support military buildups, and pursue vanity projects.\u201d Foreign aid has long been notorious for breeding kleptocracies<\/span><\/a>\u2014governments of thieves. A 2002 American Economic Review analysis<\/span><\/a> concluded that \u201cincreases in [foreign] aid are associated with contemporaneous increases in corruption,\u201d and that \u201ccorruption is positively correlated with aid received from the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2002, President George W. Bush promised to fix that problem by launching a new foreign aid program, the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA). Bush proudly though incoherently announced: \u201cWe won\u2019t be putting money into a society which is not transparent and corrupt.\u201d (He probably meant \u201ccorruption-free.\u201d) But the Bush administration continued delivering billions of dollars in handouts to many of the world\u2019s most corrupt<\/span><\/a> regimes. By 2004, the State Department had codified what amounted to backtracking: \u201cThe MCA is an incentive-based supplement to other U.S. aid programs\u201d<\/span><\/a> which bankroll crooked foreign politicians.<\/p>\n

In 2009, President Barack Obama sent Vice President Joe Biden to Afghanistan to admonish President Hamid Karzai to stop the corruption<\/span><\/a> that was destabilizing that nation. But the problem worsened. Pervasive corruption was a major reason why the Taliban is reconquering more<\/span><\/a> of that nation each year. At Afghanistan\u2019s premier military hospital, some wounded soldiers starved to death<\/span><\/a> because they could not afford to bribe the hospital staff for food. Much of the army is practically bootless<\/span><\/a> because of crooked contracts that deliver shoddy footwear that falls apart the first time soldiers wear them. Obama\u2019s ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, later admitted: \u201cOur biggest single project<\/span><\/a>, sadly and inadvertently, may have been the development of mass corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2010, President Obama proclaimed at the United Nations that the U.S. government is \u201cleading a global effort to combat corruption<\/span><\/a>.\u201d But the reform charade was exposed the following year when the Obama administration fiercely resisted congressional efforts to curb wasteful aid. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that restricting handouts to nations that fail anti-corruption tests \u201chas the potential to affect a staggering number<\/span><\/a> of needy aid recipients.\u201d<\/p>\n

At a 2016 Anti-Corruption Summit in London, Secretary of State John Kerry lamented, \u201cI\u2019ve been shocked by the degree to which I find corruption pandemic<\/span><\/a> in the world today.\u201d Kerry sounded like the French detective in Casablanca <\/i>who was \u201cshocked<\/span><\/a>\u201d to discover gambling. Kerry vowed: \u201cWe have to get the global community to come together and have no impunity [sic] to corruption.\u201d The London conference produced one day\u2019s worth of positive headlines for Kerry and the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

Ukraine is perhaps the most brazen example of how U.S. government handouts propel corruption. I<\/strong>n 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 million dollar salary<\/span><\/a> for a ceremonial position. Biden declared in 2019: \u201cI did nothing wrong. I carried out the policy of the U.S. government in rooting out<\/span><\/a> corruption in Ukraine.\u201d He failed miserably. The International Monetary Fund recognized in 2019 that its $20 billion in loans to<\/span><\/a> Ukraine were a bust thanks to the government\u2019s decades of \u201cbroken promises\u201d and \u201csystemic corruption.\u201d At the 2019 House hearings on the impeachment of President Trump, a key witness was acting U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine, William B. Taylor Jr. The Washington Post<\/em> hailed Taylor as someone who \u201cspent much of the 1990s telling<\/span><\/a> Ukrainian politicians that nothing was more critical to their long-term prosperity than rooting out corruption and bolstering the rule of law, in his role as the head of U.S. development assistance for post-Soviet countries.\u201d Taylor failed miserably but he was still a hero inside the Beltway because he had a benevolent-sounding job title and recited the right phrases<\/strong>. Plus, he testified against Trump.<\/p>\n

Bribing foreign politicians to encourage honest government makes as much sense as distributing free condoms to encourage abstinence.<\/strong> How many Washingtonians pocketed six-figure salaries for boondoggle \u201cRule of Law\u201d projects in Afghanistan? As long as the consultants can afford their BMWs, the program\u2019s pathetic failure was irrelevant.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But Washington policymakers have learned from the decades of foreign aid scandals. Thus, the Biden administration and their congressional allies have blocked proposals by Republicans to create a Special Inspector General to oversee the $113 billion in aid for Ukraine that Congress appropriated so far. Sen. James Risch justified opposing creating an Inspector General because \u201cwe have found zero siphoning<\/span><\/a> of U.S. dollars.\u201d This is Beltway Logic at its best. This is on par with the Pentagon claiming that there were no civilian casualties from bombing a foreign nation because it refused to count the dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The White House and its media allies are downplaying the latest expose on Biden family foreign kickbacks. The White House even has a hairless official \u201cspokesman for oversight and investigations\u201d to ritually proclaim Biden\u2019s innocence. That guy, Ian Sams, tweeted yesterday that \u201ccongressional Republicans\u2019 allegations against the President are nothing more than innuendo and insinuation<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Rep. Comer said that his investigation is still in the \u201cbeginning stages<\/span><\/a>,\u201d and his committee is issuing more subpoenas. Americans would have learned little or nothing about Biden\u2019s foreign money machine if Republicans had not captured control of the House of Representatives last November.<\/p>\n

The revelations from the House Oversight investigation have already changed the storyline for when, after five years, the Justice Department finally announces the indictment of Hunter Biden. On MSNBC last Friday, Biden declared, \u201cMy son has done nothing<\/span><\/a> wrong.\u201d But the House Committee has shown that Hunter and other Bidens pocketed millions of dollars from shady Chinese sources\u2014despite Biden\u2019s denial in the final debate with Trump that his family had taken any money from China. Hunter Biden\u2019s Ukrainian gravy train stinks to high heaven. The Romanian windfalls are the latest proof of global Biden conniving. When President Biden seeks to spin the indictment of his son, he will be starting with zero credibility. Biden proclaimed last Friday that he was \u201chonorable.\u201d But his style of honor should be a laughingstock anywhere beyond the Beltway.<\/p>\n

\u201cCorruption is just another form<\/span><\/a> of tyranny,\u201d Biden told the Romanian parliament in 2014. Americans are still learning about how our democracy is being subverted by this form of Biden tyranny. One certainty is that there is far more \u201cpernicious foreign influence\u201d than Washington admits. The other certainty is that the Justice Department\u2019s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative will never touch anyone named Biden.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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