Sometimes – a lot of times, actually – I think the possibility that what currently passes for our mainstream media will somehow regenerate itself as providers of neutral journalism is pretty much non-existent.
If you’re wondering why, I strongly urge you to read Daniel Greenfield’s latest piece for frontpagemag.com, in which he lists out the voluminous number of financial fraudsters Joe Biden (or, more exactly, the people running this sham presidency) whose sentences have been commuted. And then wonder, along with Greenfield, and me, why this would be done other than because these sacks of manure are kicking back money to the folks doing the commuting.
Here is how it begins:
Some people lost their life savings while others lost their dreams in a $900 million fraud that was described as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history and left behind 1 million victims.
Investors in ‘Zeek’ had taken out loans and mortgages on their homes expecting to get a 125% return on their investment. Victims included the parents of a leukemia patient who were trying to pay for their daughter’s hospital visits. And while some of the money was recovered, people in towns like Lexington, North Carolina, where ZeekRewards had its office, are still suffering. Zeek’s victims were working class people who didn’t understand what they were getting into.
Zeek CEO Paul Burks, who made millions from the scheme, was convicted of wire and mail fraud and sentenced to 14 years in prison in the first year of the Trump administration. Burks (pictured above) filed multiple appeals, claiming that COVID poses a risk to his health (he contracted a mild case) that were rejected by the court. And that was that until Biden commuted his sentence.
Biden commuted the sentence of James Fry, a hedge fund manager convicted in the Petters Group $1.9 billion Ponzi scheme described as “one of the largest and most complex Ponzi schemes in U.S. history” and was accused of having “raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors” while working alongside a convicted criminal. He also commuted the sentence of Timothy McGinn, one half of a pair of brokers accused of defrauding 900 investors of $136 million, who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Victims included a father of two wounded veterans who had been putting aside the money for their expenses.
Former CEO Eric Bloom, who got 14 years in prison, after being accused of committing the “biggest fraud in Chicago court history” in what was described as a $665 million fraud scheme also got a pass from Biden. So did former CEO Gregory J. Podlucky, who ran a bottled water company and had been accused of a $685 million pyramid fraud loan scheme in which the money was spent on jewels and toy trains, and had been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Did you know this? Did you have even a slight inkling of who Biden/his puppet-masters were giving major breaks to?
Do you have any doubt at all that there is a quid pro quo involved?
As Greenfield says:
No president has ever left office bailing out individuals who did so much harm to so many.
Later investigations may determine whether, as with Bill Clinton’s Marc Rich pardon, there was a ‘pay-to-play’ element, but the sheer amount of wealth makes it unlikely that there wasn’t.
I couldn’t agree more. I have no proof that any such thing is happening, and don’t claim to. But at some point common sense has to obtain.
The sooner Biden’s owners are no longer in charge of this country the better off every one of us (except them) will be.
