NEW: NY Post Op-Ed Claims Kamala’s Brother-in-Law Fleeced Taxpayers for Billions While a DOJ Lawyer

Hunter Biden may be shamelessly corrupt, but there’s more than one way to skin a fleecing-the-taxpayers cat, and in an op-ed published Friday by the New York Post, the writers claim that Kamala Harris’ brother-in-law Tony West may have found a whole new way to define “corrupt.” (The bio on the article states that one of the writers, Daniel Huff, “is a former counsel to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees,” while “Clark S. Judge is managing director of the White House Writers Group, Inc.”)

If Kamala Harris wins the White House, her brother-in-law, Tony West, who is married to her sister Maya, is poised to claim the crooked crown.

Like Hunter, West learned his craft in the Obama years.

Then head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, he invented a new form of what 19^th-early 20^th centuries Tammany boss George Washington Plunkett famously called “Honest Graft.”

It was simple.

Until 1977, Congress had to approve any settlement of a civil suit against the Federal government over $100,000.

That seems appropriate; a civil suit, should the government lose, requires the disbursement of funds – and Congress, especially the House of Representatives, holds the purse; indeed, all spending bills must originate in the House. That’s the law. But this changed in 1977:

This preserved the Constitutional requirement that Congress control the government’s purse.

But in that year, seeking relief from the burgeoning volume of suits to review, Congress removed the cap, handing the Justice Department a permanent blank check to pay settlements unilaterally, in any amount, out of an account known as the Judgment Fund.

Run by the Treasury Department, the Judgment Fund’s secrecy is so complete that our often-penetrated CIA might study it for lessons.

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