Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends

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#1New York TimesBestseller!

Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruptionand winningfor years. InThrow Them All Out,he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, leading to the passage of the STOCK Act. InExtortion, he uncovered how politicians use mafia-like tactics to enrich themselves. And inClinton Cash, he revealed the Clintons massive money machine and sparked an FBI investigation.

Now he explains how a new corruption has taken hold, involving larger sums of money than ever before. Stuffing tens of thousands of dollars into a freezer has morphed into multibillion-dollar equity deals done in the dark corners of the world.

An American bank opening in China would be prohibited by US law from hiring a slew of family members of top Chinese politicians. However, a Chinese bank opening in America can hire anyone it wants. It can even invite the friends and families of American politicians to invest in cant-lose deals.

President Donald Trumps children have made front pages across the world for their dicey transactions. However, the media has barely looked into questionable deals made by those close to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Mitch McConnell, and lesser-known politicians who have been in the game longer.

In many parts of the world, the children of powerful political figures go into business and profit handsomely, not necessarily because they are good at it, but because people want to curry favor with their influential parents. This is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States. But for relatives of some prominent political families, we may already be talking about hundreds of millions of dollars.

Deeply researched and packed with shocking revelations,Secret Empiresidentifies public servants who cannot be trusted and provides a path toward a more accountable government.

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Fascinating. Wall Street Journal

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Peter Schweizer is the New York Times bestselling author of Secret Empires, Clinton Cash, Extortion, Throw Them All Out, Architects of Ruin, and other books that have revealed political wrongdoing, and has been featured on 60 Minutes, in the New York Times, and elsewhere. He is the co-founder and president of the Government Accountability Institute, a team of investigative researchers and journalists committed to exposing crony capitalism, misuse of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or malfeasance.