7/21/20
BOMBSHELL: FBI Investigated Joe Biden's Campaign for Corruption
On Tuesday, Politico published an in-depth interview with Christopher Tigani, a wealthy beer distributor who bundled cash for former Senator Joe Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign. Tigani later confessed to violating campaign-finance laws during that campaign by reimbursing employees for contributions made in their names. Before his confession and sentencing, however, Tigani helped the FBI investigate the inner circle of Biden’s campaign. The story raises questions about the former vice president’s corruption — questions that accentuate the Hunter Biden scandals with Ukraine and China.
Ultimately, only Tigani faced charges for corruption. He was sentenced to two years in federal prison in March 2012. However, the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware sent a letter detailing the extent of the FBI investigation into Biden’s campaign and the “soft corruption” in Delaware politics, Politico reported.
According to the letter, Tigani’s cooperation with the FBI lasted close to a year, involved 12 meetings with FBI agents, and included recorded telephone and in-person conversations on 17 occasions with six people, including “a high-level official of the Biden for President campaign,” “a former Biden staffer now working as a lobbyist,” and “a prominent Wilmington businessman.”
Tigani’s cooperation did not lead to charges against others because some of the information he provided pertained to activities that were outside the statute of limitations, some of it related to conduct that was not a federal crime, and some of it could not be corroborated, the letter states.
“The information provided by defendant was valuable, however, to the extent that it permitted federal agents to compile detailed historical information regarding election offenses and ‘soft corruption’ in Delaware state government over nearly a decade, which included conduct allegedly committed by federal and state officeholders and/or their campaigns,” the letter states. “Such information will provide federal agents with a frame of reference for future public corruption investigations in this State.”
In other words, the lack of criminal charges following this FBI investigation did not exonerate the Biden campaign. Worse, it shined a light on the corruption of Delaware politics.
“Tigani’s saga provides insight into the political culture from which Biden emerged, the chummy ‘Delaware Way,'” Politico reported. “To its proponents, the Delaware Way entails an approach to politics based on long-term relationships, compromise and civility. It’s a style of governing that comes naturally in a small state. ‘He was kind of the person who helped create the Delaware Way,’ Biden’s former aide and successor in the Senate, Ted Kaufman, recently told the Los Angeles Times, referring to Biden.”
To its critics, however, the Delaware Way “can look like a culture of favor trading and cronyism. In Tigani’s case, prosecutors defined it in a sentencing filing as ‘a form of soft corruption, intersecting business and political interests, which has existed in this State for years.'”
During his year of cooperation with the FBI in 2011, Tigani said his FBI handlers tried to get him in front of various players in the Biden campaign, including the former candidate himself, while wearing a wire. Tigani said he recorded conversations with former Biden finance chief Dennis Toner as well as a businessman close to Biden and a Biden aide-turned-lobbyist.
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https://pjmedia.com/election/tyler-o-neil/2020/07/21/bombshell-fbi-investigated-the-joe-biden-campaign-for-corruption-n668461