After more than half a century of brandishing the Biden family moniker to trade access to the federal government in exchange for cash, the Biden Crime Family has finally cashed out.
As a parting gift to his grifting kinsmen, Joe Biden exited his historical disgrace of a presidency by granting an eleventh-hour categorical pardon to his siblings, Jim Biden, Frank Biden, and Val Biden Owens, and their spouses for any and all nonviolent crimes “they may have committed or taken part in” during the decade-plus since January 1, 2014. Only the “full and unconditional” pardons the former president issued to his son Hunter and then to former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci were more sweeping.
Biden issued 8,064 acts of presidential pardon or clemency during his four long years, more than any other president since Jimmy Carter, who pardoned hundreds of thousands of draft dodgers in the wake of the Vietnam War.
From the commutations granted to 37 of the 40 convicts on federal death row to the Fauci pardon, expressly designed to prevent President Donald Trump from proving the likely origins of the coronavirus pandemic from a U.S. taxpayer-funded lab in communist China, Biden was dogmatic and dedicated to pursuing his pro-crime agenda. But dedicating the last official act of his 52 years in the federal government to pardoning his entire family was both an admission of guilt and a final extinction burst of the Biden Crime Family.
In his final report as the special counsel responsible for investigating Hunter Biden’s criminal record, David Weiss noted that the infamous failson made millions of dollars each year of his father’s vice presidency, interregnum, and 2020 presidential run “by using his last name and connections to secure lucrative business opportunities, such as a board seat at a Ukrainian industrial conglomerate, Burisma Holdings Limited, and a joint venture with individuals associated with a Chinese energy conglomerate.” While Weiss doesn’t hold the rest of the Biden family culpable for tax charges levied against the former first son, that Chinese energy conglomerate, CEFC China Energy, was one of the lucrative business opportunities that directly enriched not just Hunter, but also Jim Biden.
The 2017 contract between CEFC and the Bidens paid Hunter Biden a lump sum of $500,000 and then a monthly fee of $100,000 and paid Jim Biden $65,000 per month. A Republican investigation in 2020 found that Hunter Biden’s company further transferred another $1.4 million to his uncle’s account. When Jim and Sara Biden were contacted by their bank about the transactions triggering a designation of possible criminal activity, rather than explain the activity, they shuttered the account.
Sara Biden also paid the Big Guy a $40,000 check as a “loan repayment” just one month after the initial contract between CEFC and the Bidens was signed. Jim Biden later conceded to House Republicans that he knew the money he was paying the former president came from CEFC.
The CEFC cash grab is, of course, the mere tip of the iceberg. Jim Biden, Val Biden Owens, and Val’s husband, John, were profiting from their connections to Joe Biden as early as the ’70s, drawing scrutiny from the Justice Department when a bank that granted Jim Biden an unsecured loan required a bailout from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The gravy train only escalated into high gear once Hunter Biden matured into his professional career as the second son of the United States, and after the death of Beau Biden, largely regarded as the brain and conscience of the Biden dynasty, the guardrails fell off the operation entirely.
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Shortly after the start date for the Biden family pardons in 2014, exorbitant cash flows and promotions kicked in. Frank Biden became a poster child for the Berman Law Group, which continually highlighted his relationship with his powerful brother, while Jim and Hunter Biden negotiated their paydays with CEFC. Val Biden Owens, her brother’s perpetual political adviser, allegedly received cash from Hunter Biden, but according to whistleblower Joseph Ziegler, the IRS was blocked from questioning Owens about the transfer.
The only silver lining of this moral travesty of a transaction is that with the Big Guy finally exiled to the ash heap of history, the gravy train for the Biden Crime Family is finally over.
This article was originally published at www.washingtonexaminer.com
