Peter Schweizer: Social Security May Go Bust, but Ukrainian Pensions Will Be Saved — ‘What an Upside-Down World’
Breitbart News 26 Sep 2023
Count Peter Schweizer among the “doubters” of the Biden administration’s choice of former Commerce Secretary and major Democratic donor Penny Pritzker to lead U.S. efforts to channel private sector reconstruction assistance to Ukraine.
Pritzker, the heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune and a real estate mogul herself, was corrupt and self-dealing during her commerce department tenure under President Barack Obama, which Schweizer documented in a 12-page chapter of his book, Secret Empires.
“You really wonder who’s going to benefit from all this,” Schweizer said of the aid money headed to Ukraine. “Yet, here comes Penny Pritzker… She has no moral authority.”
According to Secret Empires, while Commerce Secretary during Obama’s second term, Pritzker approved leasing office space owned by her real estate company, Artemis Real Estate, to Commerce Department grantees. In 2013, Artemis bought the Carlyle Center, a brick and glass building in Alexandria, Va. One of the building’s tenants was the US Patent and Trademark Office, a Commerce Department agency. The same year, Artemis bought a building near Boston through a joint venture, and a US government tenant was paying $670,000 annually in rent. Artemis-owned buildings in San Rafael, Cal., and Dallas were similarly blessed with federal government tenants.
“And she is supposed to help Ukraine become more transparent and more open, and less corrupt?” he asked.
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