It’s astounding, isn’t it? Brazenly stupid. At this point, we have to wonder how the Bidens keep track of all their corruption and cronyism. We know Hunter Biden uses —and loses—laptops to keep track of his international exploits. But Joe? He keeps his cronies right down the hall.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, top Biden donor and CEO of the medical technology company Masimo Corporation Joe Kiani was rewarded with a White House position on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology —and then received $3 million in government contracts since Biden took office.
Contracts from the Department of Defense and Department of Health and Human Services.
According to the website for the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the council “advises the president on matters involving science, technology, education, and innovation policy” and “provides the president with scientific and technical information that is needed to inform public policy.”
Science, technology and education? Three policy areas that are dumpster fires at the moment. Other than donating money to Biden’s campaign, what has Kiani done? More importantly, what is he doing now?
“The new post and contracts were awarded just a few years after Kiani emerged as one of Biden’s biggest benefactors,” the Washington Free Beacon reports. “In 2017, the Masimo Foundation donated at least $1 million to the Biden Foundation, on top of up to $500,000 from Kiani and his wife, according to donations that were disclosed by the foundation. During the 2020 campaign, Kiani bundled more than $1 million for Biden and hosted in-person and virtual fundraisers for him. Kiani also gave $750,000 to the pro-Biden super PAC Unite the Country, and his foundation gave another $1 million for Biden’s inaugural committee.”
Okay, so he dropped a ton of money on Biden. Anything else, Mr. Kiani? Because your background is suspect and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology’s website reads like bureaucratic nonsense; I’d argue that most of these positions are superfluous.
The House Oversight Committee is all over this —it stinks of “cronyism,” they say.
“Cronyism in any form is wrong,” said Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), who serves on the House Oversight Committee. “For someone who has spent almost 40 years in Washington, you’d think President Biden of all people would know that.”
“Yet here we are, another campaign donor receiving a post in the administration, this time on the prestigious President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. It’s important to get to the bottom of this, and I’m happy to help lead that charge.”
“Other members of the Biden family have fostered relationships with Kiani as well. Biden’s son-in-law, Howard Krein, is the chief medical officer of Startup Health, a company that was launched with significant investment from Kiani’s Masimo Corporation, which was part of a nearly $20 million funding round in 2018,” WFB reports. “During Biden’s presidential campaign, Krein served as an informal adviser to his campaign while working at the Masimo-invested Startup Health, which was simultaneously running “a special initiative to invest in health care startups that offer solutions to the pandemic,” according to Politico. Biden’s son Hunter and brother Frank have both leveraged their ties to the president as part of their business pitches.”
“The Biden Crime Family” moniker used to sound hyperbolic. Not so much anymore.
