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Secret Empires

How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends

[... 188-page pdf file ...]

CONTENTS [pdf-4]

Cover
Title Page
Dedication

1: Corruption by Proxy
2: American Princelings: Two Sons and a Roommate
3: Nuclear and Other Consequences
4: Bidens in Ukraine
5: McConnell and Chao: From China with Profits
6: The Princelings of K Street
7: The Princelings of Chicago
8: The Hyesan Youth Copper Mine of North Korea
9: Barack Obama’s Best Friend
10: More Smashing and Grabbing
11: A Real Estate Mogul Goes to Washington
12: The Trump Princelings
Conclusion

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Photos Section
About the Author
Also by Peter Schweizer
Copyright
About the Publisher

Analysis by Will Zuzak:
Schweizer20180301SecretEmpires.pdf

In his Acknowledgments, Peter Schweizer confesses:

I cofounded the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) in 2012 with Stephen K.
Bannon, who stepped down from the board in 2016 to pursue other noteable goals. Today the
organization enjoys the benefits of a tremendous board of directors including Chairman Rebekah
Mercer, who has enthusiastically supported our work and provided thoughtful leadership. Thanks
also go to board members Hunter Lewis, Ron Robinson, and Owen Smith for their insightful guidance.

At GAI we have a formidable band of; professional staff who make us one of the most
effective investigative organizations in the world. These include Stuart Christmas our general
counsel, research director Eric Eggers, program director Steve Post, and
data and technical director Chance Hendrix. Sandy Schulz helps us expertly navigate the
world of media; and communications. They all contributed mightily to this book. Some GAI
employees who also contributed have asked to remain anonymous.

It is well known that Stephen Bannon joined the Donald Trump election campaign in 2016 and that Rebekah Mercer and her father, Robert Mercer, were huge financial contributors to Mr. Trump's election campaign. Furthermore, Robert Mercer was the founder of SCl, which presumably controls a subsidiary Cambridge Analytica, which specializes in running election campaigns for "odious" political aspirants. At present (late March 2018), there is a huge controversy about Cambridge Analytica utilizing some 50 million unauthorized Email addresses garnered from postings on Facebook to target voters with specifically tailored ads.

The Also by Peter Schweizer link indicates that Mr. Schweizer has written some 11 books including
Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich and
Architects of Ruin: How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy -- and How They Will Do It Again If No One Stops Them.
These three books appear to be specifically dedicated to demonize the Democratic Party and its adherents as an antidote to the books by Thomas Wolff and Michael Isikoff which are dedicated to trashing the Republican Party and its adherents.
[It s obvious that both these American political parties are corrupt to the core!]

[Further analysis of the individual chapters in the book shall be continued as time and energy permit.]

Ukraine references:

This website is dedicated to reporting on Ukrainian affairs and Ukraine. A Ctrl-F search for "Ukrain" yields 198 hits. However, the overwhelming majority of these are associated with Chapter 4: Bidens in Ukraine [87] and the Notes thereto [78].There are also 17 hits in the Index.

A Ctrl-F search for Paul "Manafort" does not yield any hits at all.
- Yanukovych [8] and Poroshenko [11].

Although there are about 255 hits for "Trump", the vast majority of these are associated with Chapter 11: A Real Estate Mogul Goes to Washington [12] and Chapter 12: The Trump Princelings [127] and the Notes asscociated therewith.

1: Corruption by Proxy [pdf-5]
2: American Princelings: Two Sons and a Roommate [pdf-15]
3: Nuclear and Other Consequences [pdf-28]
4: Bidens in Ukraine [pdf-33]
5: McConnell and Chao: From China with Profits [pdf-43]
6: The Princelings of K Street [pdf-51]
7: The Princelings of Chicago [pdf-61]
8: The Hyesan Youth Copper Mine of North Korea [pdf-68]
9: Barack Obama’s Best Friend [pdf-76]
10: More Smashing and Grabbing [pdf-87]
11: A Real Estate Mogul Goes to Washington [pdf-98]
12: The Trump Princelings [pdf-105]
Conclusion [pdf-116]