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Who is Tony West?
Kamala Harris’ brother-in-law married her sister Maya in 1998.
He was one of her first political advisors, helping with the 2003 San Francisco District Attorney race.
Tony West served in Clinton and Obama’s DOJ, where is he accused of setting up a Ponzi scheme which fleeced billion from taxpayers.
Head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division
Tony West took advantage of the Treasury Department’s secret “Judgment Fund”, a slush account used to pay inflated settlements without Congressional oversight.
The Government Accountability Office admitted they have no idea how many settlements are paid yearly by the Judgment Fund, no receipts are published, and attorneys’ fees awarded are not disclosed.
President Trump banned this fund when he took office, but Biden made it legal again in 2021.
In 2009, Tony West was placed IN CHARGE of the DOJs specific division that litigates and settles lawsuits, paid out by the Judgement Fund.
Tony West’s first order of business, according to one of his deputy’s emails, was to find the “best way” to use this settlement fund to “allocate” money toward his friend’s organizations.
I Approved Of My Brother In Law Tony West Stealing From The America Taxpayer Just Like Me & Joe Do!
“Settlements became the vehicle for paying off political allies,” according to Daniel Huff, former counsel to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.
One of Tony West’s biggest scores was a 2010 settlement with 91 Hispanic and female farmers who claimed they were illegally discriminated against.
Tony West intervened and “engineered a stunning turnabout” according to the New York Times. The DOJ agreed to a $1.33 billion settlement, including thousands of farmers who were never even involved in the case, and Native American farmers.
The left-wing NY Times admitted at the time that Tony West’s settlement was a “runaway train, driven by racial politics . . . and law firms that stand to gain more than $130 million in fees.”
The settlement payment grew to over $4.4 billion, creating a $60 million windfall for the lead lawyer, Joseph M. Sellers, who just so happened to also be a member of the Obama/Biden transition team.
Tony West also concocted a series of shady bank settlements with victims of the housing crisis
Questionable provisions requiring banks to make almost a billion dollars in mandatory donations to Democrat-supporting activist groups, excluding all conservative property rights orgs.
The Tony West corrupt settlement system was again used in 2016 to make Volkswagen fund a $2 billion White House electric car initiative that Congress had blocked. Tony then got a job with Uber, which profits greatly with the shift to EV.
A WH email literally shows staff saying they ought to “build a statue to West and bow down to this statue each day” after they receive their $200k per day.
The agreement was co-signed by then-California AG Kamala Harris
All while being advised by Tony West, her soon-to-be White House counsel, if she wins.
Bonus case: DOJ used Tony West’s settlement system to pay FBI Agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page $2 million after their anti-Trump texts were published.
Now we know why Kamala didn’t want to be asked about Tony West, her Hunter Biden.
