The PLO’s money arm was the largest foreign principal for his law firm.
“Will Doug Emhoff’s Legal Career Be an Issue for the Biden-Harris Ticket?” the New York Times asked four years ago.
The newspaper noted that Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris, was a partner at DLA Piper whose “lobbying clients” had included the governments of Afghanistan and Bahrain, as well as the Qatari government-funded Al Jazeera Network and the Palestine Monetary Authority.
DLA Piper was good to the Emhoff-Harris family with the family taking home $2.7 million in 2019 and $1.2 million in 2020. “To aspire to create wealth is a good thing as far as I’m concerned. If that is what one chooses. I, on the other hand, have chosen to live a life of public service,’ Kamala had claimed. But the “life of public service” led to her husband’s role at DLA Piper.
And two DLA Piper clients are connected to a flashpoint in Kamala’s foreign policy.
As vice president, Kamala pursued a harsher line against Israel than Biden, virulently denouncing the Jewish state over its military campaign against Hamas terrorists after Oct 7.
DLA Piper not only represented Qatar through its state-owned Al Jazeera terrorist propaganda network, but has an office there as part of the Qatar Financial Centre Branch of DLA Piper Middle East. Qatar harbors Hamas and funded it along with other Islamic terrorist groups.
The enemy terrorist outlet hired DLA Piper around the same time that some members of Congress had asked why Al Jazeera was not complying with the Foreign Agents Registration Act and why the Department of Justice had failed to bring the Qatari operation into compliance.
This occurred in 2019 when Emhoff was still a partner at DLA Piper, though he was not involved with that particular case, that was part of a relationship with Qatar that predated his time there.
DLA Piper however also entered into an agreement with the Palestine Monetary Authority for $600,000 to “strengthen its relationship with the American government” signed with PMA boss Jihad Al Wazir. As of 2019, DLA Piper was still representing the ‘banking arm of the PLO and sending out invitations to members of Congress to meet with then PMA head Azzam Shawwa. By 2021, the PMA had become DLA Piper’s largest foreign principal.
The Palestine Monetary Authority came to prominence after a lawsuit by the family of a terror victim. Yaron Ungar, an American, along with his wife were murdered by Islamic terrorists in Israel. The family sued the PLO and Hamas and won a sizable judgment against the terrorists.
Since the terrorist groups aren’t themselves in America, the Palestine Monetary Authority, which manages funds from the terrorist area’s ‘banks’ had its assets frozen leading to an extended legal battle. The PMA claimed to be an independent entity but lawyers representing the terror victim’s surviving son pointed out that initial capital came out of the PLO’s ‘Palestinian Authority’, that its “its shortfall was to be paid by the PA, and its profits were to be paid to the PA. As to management, the PMA’s governor is appointed by the PA chairman as are its board members, their salaries are determined by him, and he has the right to terminate the PMA board members and officers. Additionally, the Ungars showed that the PMA regularly used the PA’s letterhead.”
While law firms can take on all sorts of clients and Douglas Emhoff did not appear to have been involved in the Palestine Monetary Authority case, as a partner he likely benefited from the overall prosperity of the firm and politically he and Kamala might have benefited from the relationships created through his role at one of the top big government law firms.
Freedom Center Investigates previously found that Kamala Harris began receiving political donations from lawyers at firms where Emhoff was a partner beginning with their marriage and then his move to DLA Piper after she became a senator.
But beyond that there is a complex triangle of relationships between the Biden administration, the Palestine Monetary Authority and DLA Piper.
The Biden administration appointed George Salem as the chairman of the USAID’s ‘Partnership for Peace Fund’ tasked with handing out $250 million to Israeli and ‘Palestinian’ peace projects just three months after he had spent six years as a registered foreign agent for the Palestine Monetary Authority.
Salem had previously lobbied for Qatar’s Al Jazeera, also represented by DLA Piper, and had entered into what the firm describes as having “entered into a relationship as Strategic Advisor with DLA Piper”. When Salem was appointed to head the $250 million fund, DLA Piper issued a press release.
A few things that Emhoff’s former law firm didn’t mention is that Salem was a co-founder of various anti-Israel groups, sat on the board of the American Task Force on Palestine and of UNRWA USA, and had also represented the Hamas front group, the ‘Holy Land Foundation’, Salem was not only its lawyer, but had supported HLF even before charges were brought against it. And Salem, a longtime figure in political circles, had donated to DLA Piper’s PAC.
Kamala had started as an insider in California Democrat politics, but even though she only spent a brief amount of time in the Senate, her husband’s very profitable law firms brought the Emhoff-Harris family into contact with foreign influence and foreign money in D.C.
Freedom Center Investigates had previously reported on the intersection between Emhoff’s previous law firm and its Cuban business, and Kamala’s opposition to the embargo on the Communist dictatorship. Similar questions might be asked about the intersection of Kamala’s hostility to Israel and the problematic and even terrorist clients of her husband’s law firm.
DLA Piper has represented Israeli companies and clients, but the relationship to the Palestine Monetary Authority and Qatar, is troubling, and raises questions about the Emhoff-Harris family.
Democrats have long used Douglas Emhoff, Kamala’s husband, who was raised in a Jewish family, as a defense against critics noting her troubling political views, but Emhoff’s law firm connections raise their own issues, both apart from his wife and perhaps reflective of her.
Kamala’s husband did not personally represent terrorists, terrorist sponsors or terrorist-linked entities during his time at DLA Piper (one of his clients at a previous law firm was however an arms dealer who was since charged and plead guilty) but he benefited from a firm that did.
In Washington D.C., it’s a better idea to follow the money than to follow the speeches. Kamala and her husband have made plenty of speeches, but more importantly, they cashed the checks.
somehistory says
The closer you look, the uglier they are.
40 rounds says
Yeah, and our glorious news media knows she and her fake Jew husband are heavyweight antisemites. We Americans are being bamboozled by a corrupt press and democrat party Soviet style.
rick says
Kamala’s husband was born a Jew but is quite comfortable with an assortment of Muslim terrorist Jew hating pro-Hamas walking around in the hallways and offices of his law firm.
OLD GUY says
As always follow the MONEY.
OLD GUY says
As always follow the MONEY.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I saw Ben Shapiro point out on Megyn Kelly that he’s had it w/ anyone who claims that Kamala isn’t anti-Semitic b’cos Emhoff is Jewish. Which is ?? given that Emhoff’s pet cause is “islamophobia”, and he had a weird explanation about Hanukkah some years back
But speaking of Emhoff’s law firm, Peter Schweitzer pointed out on OANN today how his law firm had 6 nutritional supplement clients that were running afoul of federal regulations. This was while she was the AG of California. In San Diego, there were agencies that wanted those companies investigated, and she squelched that. Given that Emhoff’s law firm Venable was representing them, that was a pretty blatant conflict of interests, and she should have recused herself
https://youtube.com/watch?v=D-q-_hiqjTQ
I do hope that in the next few days, it’s brought up by other news outlets more prominent than OANN (not that there’s anything wrong w/ Chanel Rion), and that this corruption of hers is highlighted to show how she is not much different from her boss when it comes to enriching herself using her public office
The DLA Piper news is major as well, but could be better used in showing how she has family interests that conflict w/ national interests. Unless subverting the US to Qatar is now defined as being in the national interest
memi says
Yes, it does appear that “subverting the US to Qatar is now defined as being in the national interest” if Harris wins the presidency! If she really earnest in answered a public service “call” to public office, then she should have recused herself for the presidency job as she has a clear conflic of interest. Unless, of course, the call to public office is a call to a few billion “silent agency” commission$ from the oligarchs running Islamofascist Qatar. Why are the democrats gambling with Harris’ “public service” intentions? She gets to have dinner daily with “intentions” that may well be against the public interest.
Burnaby Lad says
there will never be a First Lady or Man named doug
tgusa says
These clueless people go around with their Israel, Israel, Israel, bs.
Islam is cultural and islam is barely indistinguishable no matter where isalm is in the world nor how many muslims are present there at the time.
What is the democrat mission? Do they think they can continue supporting western rights for women? Do they think muslims will be OK with democrat alphabet people just going along doing their thing? As muslims grow stronger within the democrat arena at some point democrats are going to have to choose. At that point it will suck to be a member of those two groups.
I will give muslims credit because they sure know how to spot a fool.
JS says
Tgusa.
You state “Islam is cultural and barely indistinguishable no matter where Islam is in the world nor how many Muslims are present there rapt the time.”
I beg to differ with you.
For example, discrimination in the workplace AND discrimination in the hiring practices by Muslims, especially for Jews first, then Christians, then the rest.
Also, has anyone ever been nearly attacked at their place of employment because their “name sounds Israeli” by eight Islamic men? I was saved because people heard the threats and shouts and presented themselves in my office and being a woman, they were especially concerned. This is the future of the US.
Whoever believes that the Democrats and their Islamic allies they support will not affect every infidel (as they like to call us) in the US – just look at the UK. Read or watch videos of how the Labour Party with their new PM Keir Starmer is implementing policies detrimental to the British people and nation.
tgusa says
You can disagree with me but I am right. Muslims, wherever they may be, are predictable in their actions and beliefs and your workplace story proves it. Muslims always behave similarly. Thanks for the reply but I am not unfamiliar with everything you wrote.
gravenimage says
JS, Tgusa is a staunch Anti-Jihadist.
CalvinsLutheran says
This info above makes Kammie an enemy of the state. Anyone notice that?
tgusa says
Well she is a newcomer and far from a traditional American. After all our years as a country and people who is she to make any decisions for us? Who is she to criticize us for anything?
tgusa says
If i were a black I would be insulted that the first black American president and now potentiality the first woman president (black, so called) are not really Americans I would be insulted. The democrats couldn’t find a long time here black American to have that title? Pretty sad in my book.
tgusa says
And both of them are not exclusively black nor American.
Tony Rice says
That’s right. Obama was born in Kenya, therefore not eligible to be President as NOT American born. A Russian plant as told at dinner in Moscow in 1991/2. Immediately when born in Kenya ( where birth Certificate was issued ), whisked off by mother to Indonesia where he became Muslim ( and still is ) , in early teens off to outskirt of America , Hawaii, where btw, NO records exist of his supposed education, then to Chicago, lodged with Communist husband and wife. Rest is history. Father was Kenyan.
somehistory says
All that and much more…lies on top of lies. His mozlum travels took him to all *57* states, as he himself said. That was the number of *islamic* states he visited
Corruption and lies took him and his gang to live, with pay, in a house he was never qualified to even step foot in, much less to live there…
tgusa says
That’s right.
In post WWII America Hawaii was a hotbed of communist activity. John Wayne did a movie on that, 1952 – Big Jim McLain.
memi says
QUESTION: How could Kamala Harris, as president, rerpresent the position and view of the U.S. government’s foreign policy when her husband’s clients include Al-Jazeera “news” (official mouthpiece for Qatar & its vast terrorist networks) and the Palestinian Monetary Authority?
The conflict of interest is so obvious. The Democrats would be advised to seek another candidate for the presidence–not a mouthpiece for Qatar, Turkey, Iran & Hamas. This is very serious and wonder if she was ever questioned on this issue! Incredible.
memi says
The recent bribery (by Qatar) scandal that plagued the EU and its officials should have made the Democrats cautious and vetted presidential candidate Kamala Harris on her her association with foreign agents and financial arms of countries supporing terrorist organizations.
Harris’ husband’s office in Qatar and the Palestine Monetary Association should ring loudly the bells of conflic of interest and bribery.
How could Harris oversee foreign policy in the Middle East when her husband is acting for Qatar’s terrorist-supporting Al-Jazeera and the Palestine Monetary Authority that is the funding arm of Muslim Brotherhood & its Doha & Istanbul-based Hamas terrorists?
gravenimage says
Kamala is Anti-Israel. Her Husband’s Law Firm Repped the PLO
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Why am I not surprised?