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2020-01-22 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Book Bombshell: James Biden's Firm Got $1.5 Billion in Government Contracts Despite Zero Experience
[Breitbart] A firm employing James Biden, the younger brother of former Vice President Joe Biden, received more than $1.5 billion in government-backed contracts during the Obama administration.

The dovetailing of James Biden’s professional life with his brother’s political influence are extensively detailed in Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer’s new book‐Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite. Schweizer is also the president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI).

In 2010, shortly after a disastrous attempt at running a hedge fund with his nephew Hunter, James Biden entered the construction and international development industry. Even though he lacked background in either, James secured a position as executive vice president at the newly formed HillStone International, LLC. The firm, which was a subsidiary of the long struggling Hill International, was unique for a multitude of reasons.

"The president of HillStone International was Kevin Justice, who grew up in Delaware and was a longtime Biden family friend," Schweizer writes in his book. "He was friends with lots of Bidens, especially Joe’s sons Hunter and Beau."

Under Justice’s leadership, the company was setting out to pursue technology and construction projects in the Middle East. Of particular interest to the company was the millions being given to government contractors for the rebuilding of war-torn Iraq‐an endeavor Joe Biden was tasked to oversee by President Barack Obama.

It was likely with such projects in mind that Justice headed to the White House in November 2010. During the visit, the HillStone executive met with Michele Smith, a top aide to then-Vice President Joe Biden. Smith, a fellow Delaware native, was serving as the vice president’s liaison to "global government officials and business executives."
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-22 03:28|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 Appears the Orange Man have hit a trip wire with the Hunter Biden issue.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-22 03:36||   2020-01-22 03:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Zero Experience

The cross-eyed brother-in-law program writ large. Many are the "construction companies" run by high school drop outs. They seem to specialize in gummint contracts.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-22 06:22||   2020-01-22 06:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, how do you get experience if no one ever gives you a chance?

/sarc
Posted by Raj 2020-01-22 08:09||   2020-01-22 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Start by pumping gas at a Marathon station?
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-22 08:24||   2020-01-22 08:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Pumping hookers in a DC strip club.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-01-22 13:12||   2020-01-22 13:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Wow, thought the word matrix would thump me, but that post went through like a check to a Biden.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-01-22 13:13||   2020-01-22 13:13|| Front Page Top

#7 pump = v.t. to cause a liquid to flow with great force
hooker = Joseph, proper name; general for the Union forces in the Civil War
strip = v.t. to cause removal of or detachment from -- as in,

"pumping investors for liquid assets and stripping Chinese "investment funds" and Ukrainian energy firms of their assets, just like Hooker's regulars were pumped and stripped at the Battle of Chancellorsville..."
Posted by Lex 2020-01-22 13:36||   2020-01-22 13:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Revisionist piss-take on Hooker:
"Trans sex worker, feisty, a looker,
This famous Bay Stater
And sometime gay dater
Is great at conventions!" (his booker)

Posted by Bertie Ebberese4823 2020-01-22 23:56||   2020-01-22 23:56|| Front Page Top

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