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

Secret Empires

A very good book that everyone should read. Shows the real need for Term Limits. Will wake up the disgust for the political system and those in it!

Eye opening

Very well written with well placed facts and more importantly, UNBIASED! I can only hope that voters take the time to read/listen to this book.

A Washington Must Read

If only all Washington politicians would read and heed. Will this be Mitch McConnell undoing as majority leader? And will the Trump family take the advice herein and not follow the corrupt path which could do great damage to our nation and national defense as done by Joe Biden's son and John Kerry's step son? All we can do is hold them accountable at the ballot box and push for laws to hold them accountable and perhaps pray for our nation.

Good Read

Full of interesting tid bits about certain political families. What was the meat of the book was really not a shocker but affirmation that this stuff really goes on in the world of politics.

A peek view into our corupt government

a good look into what's going on in our government. Becoming a privileged group looking to take what they can

WOW

If even half of this is true, and I can't think that it wouldn't be, then we as a society never had a chance.

Eye opener!

American politics are corrupted and both political parties are taking advantage of power behests on them from the voters. The downfall of the US continues.

Awesome Book!

This book was very well done and very interesting. I learned a lot about the inter dealings within our government which, IMO, should be considered illegal but at the present time is only questionable.

Must read

This book list out the corruption on both sides of the US political spectrum. If you feel like the system is rigged it is. This should be a must read.

Everyone should read this book!!! We the people are soooo naive!

Instead of thinking the movies and shows like House of Cards are fiction, exaggerated for a effect, we should realize the content comes from our real life leaders and their complete lack of integrity.