Call Me Stormy

The Blackberries Are The Key

We’ve all heard about Hunter Biden’s overseas escapades in the Ukraine, Romania and China. The crack-smoking scofflaw was making millions of dollars on sweetheart deals with foreign companies — all essentially “buying” the good graces of Vice President Joe Biden.

Turns out this was an all-too-common arrangement. The secret in Washington: With the politicians all being scrutinized and watched to see if they were involved in conflicts of interest, they put their kids to work to bring home the bacon. This way, they could cut monster deals and reap the spoils without any investigations or criminal indictments occurring, and without the press paying any attention whatsoever. The details of how this scam worked is laid out in the new Peter Schweizer book Profiles in Corruption.

Besides Joe Biden collecting spoils through Hunter Biden’s bounty, you had Nancy Pelosi with her son Paul Pelosi Jr. serving as president and chief operating officer for Viscoil, a California-based energy company. It’s reportedly under investigation on securities fraud charges. Some have drawn connections tying the company to the Ukraine, but those connections remain a bit shady at this point.

You had John Kerry racking in the dough through his stepson, Christopher Heinz, who co-owned Rosemont Seneca Partners, a $2.4 billion private equity firm. Heinz’s college roommate, Devon Archer, was the managing partner in that firm, and served with Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma.

To show this wasn’t strictly a Democratic scam, Mitt Romney also might have been doing the same kinds of covert deals in the Ukraine and elsewhere. Not only were his children involved, but also a former aide, Joseph Cofer Black, was hired to lead Burisma’s security and strategic development efforts.

Here, Washington DC-based investigative reporter George Webb says all of these highly paid children were carrying military encrypted Blackberries configured and programmed by Matt Gonter, a Navy veteran with cryptology expertise. Webb explains a bit about Gonter and his sister Tina Gonter, a whistleblower who testified before Congress on irregularities in the building of nuclear submarines. Webb also gets into the politician kids’ Ukraine dealings that led them to become involved with both Russian and Chinese gangsters. It’s a challenge to follow all the connections, but also riveting and revealing.