Secret Empires

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

By: Peter Schweizer

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

Number one New York Times best seller!

America's top politicians have discovered the scam to end all scams.

Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption - and winning - for years. In Throw Them All Out, he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, leading to the passage of the STOCK Act. In Extortion, he uncovered how politicians use mafia-like tactics to enrich themselves. And in Clinton 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 can’t-lose deals.

President Donald Trump’s 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 Empires identifies public servants who cannot be trusted and provides a path toward a more accountable government.

©2018 Peter Schweizer (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers

Very disturbing

This will make the average taxpayer sick, I mean SICK! All this corruption widely known in those circles and nothing happens? Maybe if we had a real AG and another 6 1/2 years they could blow some of this up but I'm not very optimistic.

Eye opening

Wow, most making a living and raising a family have no idea of the corruption of government officials and their families and friends.

Absolutely Brilliant

Criticizes both Democrats and Republicans and their corrupt dealings. Power corrupts you regardless of political ideology.

Balanced Assessment of DC Corruption

This is a balanced look at how politicians amass fortunes based on thei4 Publix c life. There are Democrat and Republican examples. The author is a conservative and the accusations that he is one sided are clearly false. There is corruption on both sides. This book and his many others give "We the People" a way to begin to hold "them" accountable. Well layed out and narrator was serious in time but engaging.

Enlightening

Easy to listen to and very enlightening. The book tells you things that you would never have known about our government officials.

SMASH & GRAB!!!!

An eye opening book highlighting corruption of our elected officials. Clinton Cash was the first book that awakened my mind. How and why was this not made public before?

Fascinating book!

It's amazing how deep the corruption runs in our government. A well balanced book putting the spotlight on some examples from both sides of the aisle. What are we going to do about?

Eyes opened further

Thanks for the work Peter Schweitzer. Makes you think a bit more. Scratch your head even more.

Illuminating!

An excellent window into the corruption of politicians and the media that is supposed to expose this corruption.

President #1

Refreshing to hear investigative reporting, including (sadly) the bribery facts of DC.
George Washington would be ashamed, however not surprised.

Franklin, …”if you can keep it”