Rep. Adam Schiff, who has been strikingly absent from the national fentanyl conversation, has "Financial connections to individuals involved with criminal networks in Southern California, many of whom are tied to money laundering and the drug trade," according to Peter Schweitzer's new book Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.
In Blood Money, Schweizer highlights Schiff's astonishingly empty record regarding the fentanyl crisis before suggesting that the congressman could potentially risk "Undue attention to his own financial" ties if he were to address the issue meaningfully.
"Why Congressman Schiff has little to say about the deadly fentanyl crisis is an abiding mystery," Schweizer writes.
Allied Wallet - a "Sketchy firm" that "Was tied to money laundering, with a major footprint in China" - made one of the top donations to a joint fundraising committee that Schiff established with then-Sen Barbara Boxer in 2017 called PAC for a Change, Schweizer alleges.
The $95,000 contribution from the company - which "Made money processing credit card payments" for clients described as "'high risk' online retailers that traditional financial institutions avoid" - was followed by donations from individual company executives to Schiff's Congressional campaign, according Schweizer's Blood Money.
"At the time Schiff accepted donations from the executives, the company was being investigated for its ties to 'illegal pharma' companies around the world. Khawaja threw a lot of money around, clearly in search of political access," Schweizer writes.
A "Schiff booster" and lawyer named Arthur Charchian, "The head of the Southern California Armenian Democrats," was implicated in a money laundering scheme, according to Blood Money.
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