Opinion: Susan Shelley: The Biden family’s corruption scandal is only just beginning
For years President Joe Biden has denied knowing anything about his son Hunter’s business dealings, or ever discussing those business dealings with him. News organizations that once chewed up presidents for far less accepted those denials as fact. But something has changed. We have reached the hard-questions-shouted-at-the-president-while-he’s-trying-to-conduct-foreign-policy stage of political scandal.
One key element of the complicated deal, concealed even from the judge until just before the hearing, was paragraph 15 of the “diversion agreement,” the document related to a gun charge, supposedly separate from the agreement to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges. Under the judge’s questioning, prosecutors said the president’s son is still under investigation and future charges are a possibility. Outraged, Hunter Biden’s lawyers called off the deal and chaos ensued.
Biden’s Justice Department recently brought criminal charges against a Biden corruption whistleblower, Dr. Gal Luft, for not registering as a foreign agent of CEFC, the same company that was also paying Hunter and two other members of the Biden family. They all accepted vast sums of money from CEFC without registering as foreign agents. The whistleblower was indicted. The family members were not.
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