DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOE BIDEN HAS FUNNELED NEARLY $150,000 TO FAMILY MEMBERS FROM HIS CAMPAIGNS AND POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES, INCLUDING OVER ALMOST $75,000 TO HIS SON HUNTER BIDEN’S LAW FIRM.
These unearthed numbers come on the heels of a panoply of email threads and documents exposing Hunter Biden’s routine leveraging of his father’s name to ink lucrative lobbying and consulting contracts, often with foreign governments including the Chinese Communist Party.
The sizable sum sent to Biden family members throughout the former Veep’s Senate campaigns came from donations.
For example, Joe Biden’s Political Action Committee (PAC) “Unite Our States” paid $64,700.07 from 2005 to 2008 to the Oldaker, Biden, and Belair law firm, where Hunter Biden served as a founding partner.
UNITE OUR STATES FUNDING HUNTER BIDEN-LED LAW FIRM.
And Biden’s principal campaign committee, Citizens for Biden, also sent $9,104.00 to the Hunter Biden-led Oldaker, Biden, and Belair law firm between 2007 and 2008.
BIDEN’S CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE PAYING HUNTER BIDEN.
But Hunter Biden is not the only Biden family member to have benefited financially – nearly $80,000 – or professionally from Joe Biden holding political office.
Between 2002 and 2006, Citizens for Biden funneled nearly $60,000 to Biden family members.
Joe Biden’s sister Valerie Biden Owens pocketed $52,808.62 and his niece Catherine Owens profited $3,618.51 – payments both itemized as the individuals’ salaries.
And Joe Biden’s immediate family members – wife Jill, son Beau, and brother James – collectively received $1,765.94 in reimbursements from the campaign.
The practice of family members receiving money from politician’s political campaigns is rare, according to a 2016 report from the nonpartisan and often anti-Trump Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
As of 2016, only 16 Senators have paid family members salaries or fees, with just four of the 16, including Joe Biden, paying more than one family member. What’s more, Joe Biden placed fourth in the top five senators “paying the most money in salaries or fees to family members.”
In the words of President Trump: “The Bidens got rich while America got robbed.”
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