[Breitbart] President Joe Biden has brazenly claimed over and over again to have no knowledge of his family’s corrupt business dealings for which his son Hunter is under investigation by the FBI for tax fraud, money laundering, and the violation of lobbying laws.
The White House has also insisted Biden never spoke to Hunter about his intertwined business dealings, though evidence of the Biden family business suggests otherwise.
According to former Utah U.S. attorney Brett Tolman, the Biden family business may reveal the core of an entrenched business enterprise, which could involve legal "predicates" for racketeering charges.
Here are 11 times Joe Biden played a role in the Biden family business over six years:
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It'll be fun to hear the testimony of Biden's CCP partners. Philip Ho is still serving his prison term. He could spill all the beans about CCP influence over the Bidens in exchange for a reduction in his sentence.
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One has to feel for that man. Here he is, having finally achieved his life’s ambition of being hailed as Mr. President, and it’s all gone so horribly, horribly wrong. And on top of that, at intervals he must be noticing that he is going senile, as one does.
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If you read through the text messages between Joe and Hunter, it looks like Joe truly cares about his dirtbag son. He dotes on him, checks up on him, never gets snippy or upset. Hunter is the proverbial ungrateful wastrel son, lashing out at spring dad, resentful, always whining, self-pitying.
Wonder if the Feds will get Hunter to turn against his dad?
[mtexpress.com]President Joe Biden’s appointment to be ambassador to Finland, Douglas Hickey, was sworn into the position Wednesday at Sun Valley City Hall in an atypical ceremony.
Hickey chose to hold the ceremony in Sun Valley instead of in the nation’s capital because he "thought it would be special," he said. Hickey and his family live just outside of Sun Valley. His wife, Dawn Ross, and their three children—Parker, Cole and Lyra—were all present at the ceremony, standing besides Hickey as he recited the oath of office.
"Ambassador Hickey will not treat politics as an intellectual exercise, but to actually achieve goals," said Sun Valley Mayor Peter Hendricks, a friend of Hickey’s. "The appointment of Doug Hickey to be ambassador to the Republic of Finland gives me very good reason to be optimistic."
Hickey previously served as ambassador and commissioner general to Expo Milano, a world exposition on agriculture and food, in 2015. He was appointed to that position by then-President Barack Obama.
Hickey holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Siena College in New York. From 1989 to 1994, he served as the president of Metropolitan Fiber Systems, a telecommunications company. Following that, he served as president and CEO of Critical Path Inc., another telecommunications company, from 1998-2001. Most recently, he was the president and CEO of a food and beverage industry software business called Binwise.
Hickey was initially being considered for the position of ambassador to Italy. Biden appointed him to the Finland post on Oct. 8, 2021, and he was confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote on March 24.
"I’m really excited about this. The Finnish people are strong and determined people, and with what’s happening in the world right now, there are going to be some very interesting choices," he said. "So, I’m looking to help in any way I can."
The ambassador will move to the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki in the coming months. Before he leaves, there will be a second swearing-in ceremony in Washington, D.C.
First, Hickey plans to enjoy his remaining time in Ketchum and Sun Valley. As the ceremony ended, he jovially invited attendees to join him and his family to celebrate with a burger and a beverage.
[WashingtonExaminer] A man charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol backed out of a deal to plead guilty just days after a federal judge declared another defendant not guilty in the first acquittal connected to the attack.
Shawn Witzemann previously came to a deal to plead guilty to four misdemeanor charges next week, but he changed his mind after U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden granted a full acquittal to another defendant who was charged with entering a restricted building. Facing similar charges, Witzemann told prosecutors on Thursday that he would seek a similar fate.
"He didn't want to plead guilty to begin with, but he was afraid to trust the judicial system in D.C.," said Guy Womack, who represents Witzemann, according to NBC.
Witzemann was arrested last April on four charges, including entering and remaining in a restricted building, disruptive conduct in a restricted building, violent mostly peaceful entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
Investigators connected Witzemann to the attack after discovering he livestreamed his conduct inside the Capitol building on Facebook, according to court documents. He later admitted to federal officials he was inside the building, noting he often travels to demonstrations to provide live coverage.
"He was acting as a journalist," Womack said.
McFadden earlier this week absolved former federal contractor Matthew Martin of his charges connected to the Jan. 6 riot after his attorneys demonstrated he may have believed he was being waved into the Capitol building by coppers. The decision was the first acquittal in connection to the Jan. 6 riot, setting the stage for other defendants to challenge courts to avoid charges.
More than 775 people have been charged in connection to the Jan. 6 riot, with more than 225 pleading guilty. Martin was only the third to go to trial so far after McFadden found Couy Griffin, the co-founder of "Cowboys for Trump," guilty on March 17 and a federal grand jury found Guy Wesley Reffitt guilty on three counts just a week earlier.
Witzemann will appear before Judge Thomas F. Hogan to plead his case and could face jail time if convicted.
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The Plea Bargain and Asset Forfeiture are the two putrid abscesses on our legal system I abhor the most. Both are a positive inducement for corrupt practices.
[JUSTTHENEWS] The Missouri Supreme Court ordered on Friday that St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner comply with a public records request from Just the News Editor-in-Chief John Solomon regarding the prosecution of former Gov. Eric Greitens.
Solomon filed a public records request in July 2019 under Missouri's Sunshine Law for about two and a half years' worth of communications between Gardner's office and the Missouri Workforce Housing Association, state Representatives Stacy Newman and Jay Barnes, along with several other groups and individuals.
Gardner is one of the first big-city district attorneys bankrolled by liberal megadonor Soros.
The public records request sought documents related to Gardner's fizzled 2018 prosecution of Greitens, who resigned from the governorship less than two years into his term.
The prosecutor accused Greitens of felony invasion of privacy for allegedly threatening to release a photo of his partially nude girlfriend if she talked about their affair. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Gardner had to drop the case after admitting she lacked the alleged photo and facing the prospect of being called as a witness in the case by Greteins' lawyers.
Initially, Gardner ignored the public records request and then claimed that the documents did not fall under the state's Sunshine Law. Solomon's suit alleged that Gardner's refusal was a knowing violation of the law and sought release of the records, civil penalties and attorneys' fees.
The state Supreme Court refused to hear Gardner's final appeal on Thursday. On Friday, the court sent the case back to trial court, while ordering that her office produce the requested records within 30 days. The court also ordered that Solomon be paid attorney's fees and costs for the appeal.
The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday affirmed a lower court’s ruling that ordered St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner to turn over more than two years’ worth of communication records with billionaire Democrat megadonor George Soros.
Just the News editor John Solomon filed a public records request under Missouri law in 2019 seeking communications records between Gardner’s office and Soros, the Soros Fund Management, and Soros’ Open Society Foundation in connection with Gardner’s prosecution of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) in 2018.
In addition to Soros and his groups, the request sought communications records between Gardner and the Missouri Workforce Housing Association, two state representatives, and several other individuals and groups.
Friday’s order comes just days before Gardner is scheduled to have a disciplinary hearing, after Missouri Chief Disciplinary Counsel Alan Pratzel accused her of professional misconduct and concealing evidence in her investigation into Greitens. Gardner could potentially lose her license to practice law in Missouri if the ethics violations charges are sustained at Monday’s hearing.
Gardner launched a politically charged investigation into Greitens in 2018 after the former governor was accused of having an affair and blackmailing the woman with compromising photos while in office. Instead of having the St. Louis Police Department investigate these allegations, Gardner hired former FBI agent William Tisaby to conduct the investigation.
Last month, Tisaby pled guilty to evidence tampering and was sentenced to probation after facing six felony counts of perjury and one count of evidence tampering in connection with the Greitens investigation.
Gardner dropped an invasion of privacy charge against Greitens after a judge determined she would have to testify under oath as part of the case.
Greitens was forced to resign as governor during Gardner’s investigation and announced March of 2021 he would run for the U.S. Senate in 2022.
[NYPOST] Hunter Biden’s access to lucrative financial opportunities also came with expectations — including kicking back as much as 50% of his earnings to his dad, text messages on his old laptop show.
"I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years," Hunter Biden groused to daughter Naomi in January 2019. "It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary." Pop is Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... The laptop — infamously abandoned at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 — does not contain any direct evidence of such money transfers, but does show that Hunter was routinely on the hook for his father’s household expenses while Joe Biden was vice president.
The expenses are spelled out in an email to Hunter from business partner Eric Schwerin from June 5, 2010, entitled "JRB Bills." They concerned the upkeep of Joe Biden’s palatial lakefront home in the wealthy Greenville enclave of Wilmington, Del. JBR are President Biden’s initials.
There were $1,239 in repairs to an air conditioner at "mom-mom’s cottage," and another $1,475 to a painter for "back wall and columns at the lake house." There was also another $2,600 for fixing up a "stone retaining wall at the lake" and $475 "for shutters."
In an email five days later, Schwerin said he received Joe Biden’s "Delaware tax refund check," which suggests he had personal access to the veep’s finances.
Schwerin was serving as president of Rosemont Seneca Partners, Hunter Biden’s Chinese-linked investment firm. The email ties President Biden even closer to the messy web of his son’s business dealings.
There’s also evidence Joe Biden sometimes reimbursed his son.
"I am depositing it in his account and writing a check in that amount back to you since he owes it to you. Don’t think I need to run it by him, but if you want to go ahead," Schwerin wrote.
In a July 6, 2010 email titled "JRB Future Memo," Schwerin said he was in touch with the vice president about his personal financial matters and was eager to start discussions with him about how to cash in when he left office.
"Your Dad just called me (about his mortgage) and mentioned he’d be out a lot soon and not really back until Labor Day ... He could use some positive news about his future earnings potential."
Father and son’s linked finances went well beyond household upkeep and sometimes spilled over into Hunter Biden’s debauched personal life.
In May 2018 during a drug and alcohol binge in Los Angeles, Hunter Biden accidentally transferred around $25,000 to an escort named "Gulnora." He was immediately visited by the Secret Service — suggesting that the money came from a joint account with his father.
Hunter received a series of text messages from a former agent who repeatedly urged him to come out of his hotel room and reminded him "this is linked to Celtic’s account." "Celtic" was Joe Biden’s Secret Service code name when he was vice president.
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^ all this has been known for years. The four countries se China, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia. In every case, Bidens policy has been a dismal failure.
Biden refused to restrain Zelensky from demanding Crimea and NATO membership, provoking Russia toward war. Biden's bumbling approach to China is encouraging that country to launch a war against Taiwan. Biden was caught flat footed by events in Kazakhstan.
Hard to avoid the conclusion that Biden has been compromised by the Chinese and the Russians
[PoliceMag] A California senate bill would allow non-citizens to serve as law enforcement officer, if approved by the legislature and signed into law by the governor.
SB 960, proposed by Republican Sen. Nancy Skinner, would remove the provision that an individual must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States in order to become a police officer, FOX LA reports.
The bill only allows for legal immigrants to become police officers, a source familiar with the bill told Fox News Digital. However, the language in the bill itself does not specify that illegal immigrants are barred from doing so. The term "illegal immigrant" was unnecessary to include as other sections of federal law already barred illegal immigrants from becoming officers, the source continued.
"This bill only allows those who are living here legally and have the legal ability to work here -- through a visa, a green card -- to become peace officers. I just want to be clear on that," said Sen. Skinner at a March 22 Senate Public Safety Committee.
The bill received its second reading on Tuesday and is now onto its third reading.
[CNN] Former President Donald Trump endorsed Dr. Mehmet Oz for US Senate on Saturday, just weeks before the contested Republican primary in Pennsylvania.
"This is all about winning elections in order to stop the Radical Left maniacs from destroying our Country," Trump said in the statement endorsing the celebrity heart surgeon and television personality.
The endorsement came after months of behind-the-scenes jockeying by Oz and another leading candidate in Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick, a hedge fund executive. Both Oz and McCormick entered the primary after Trump's first choice for the nomination, Sean Parnell, dropped out of the race late last year.
"The Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has a tremendous opportunity to Save America by electing the brilliant and well-known Dr. Mehmet Oz for the United States Senate," the endorsement read. "I have known Dr. Oz for many years, as have many others, even if only through his very successful television show. He has lived with us through the screen and has always been popular, respected and smart." and Dr Oz promises that if elected he will reveal secret of new effective weight loss pill
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Supreme Court ordered on Friday that St. Louis Circuit Attorney 
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
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