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Is there no end to the corruption of America’s First Family? Hunter Biden’s laptop is certainly more salacious, but when it comes to influence-peddling, Old Joe Biden’s kid brother Jim, who is a sprightly 73, is giving his notorious nephew a run for his ill-gotten money. And in yet another indication that the people who are really running the dumpster fire known as the Biden administration are tiring of their feckless and dementia-ridden mouthpiece, it’s all coming out now.
The UK’s Daily Mail reported Tuesday that young Jim “was hired to engage in secret negotiations with the Saudi government on behalf of a US construction company because of his relationship with the then vice president, legal documents claim.” Jim got the nod for this task because, according to an affidavit, the Saudis “would not dare stiff the brother of the Vice-President who would be instrumental to the deal.” All this involved Jim’s role in a 2012 “$140 million settlement negotiation between Hill International,” the American construction firm in question, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Jim was reportedly completely up-front about his role in the negotiations, telling Thomas Sullivan, a former senior official at the U.S. Treasury Department, that Hill International hired him to conduct their negotiations with the Saudis “because of his position and relationship” with Old Joe, who was vice president at the time. According to Sullivan, Jim Biden said happily, “Of course, the name didn’t hurt,” that is, the Biden name, and Sara Biden, Jim’s wife, added that Joe and Jim “told each other everything.” Heartwarming.
This appears to be a classic case of influence-peddling. “The Saudi government owed Hill $140 million for their work building desalination plants in the Middle Eastern kingdom dating back to the 1980s.” To collect the dough, Hill reportedly hired Jim Biden “around 2011 to fix a back-door settlement for $100 million.” According to V. Thomas Lankford of Lankford & Reed, a law firm involved with the negotiations, Hill sent Jim Biden to a meeting with the Saudis: “After many delays, a meeting was finally scheduled for mid-February, 2012, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia….Hill, acting through [its CEO, Irvin] Richter, sent Jim Biden – the then sitting Vice President’s brother. Richter confided that he selected Biden because KSA [the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia] would not dare stiff the brother of the Vice-President who would be instrumental to the deal.”
Lankford added: “Mr. Biden further confirmed that Richter used Biden as a settlement intermediary in order to capitalize on the influence and orchestration of the settlement by the then Vice-President.” When Sullivan questioned Jim Biden about all in 2017, Sara Biden told him ingenuously: “He doesn’t like us talking to people.” Who doesn’t like them talking to people? The Big Guy, of course: Old Joe Biden himself.
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tgusa says
The Biden’s are trash. They show us just how deep the rot is in the US government. To be fair DC is a place where a newbie can come in with an overdrawn bank account and not long later they are millionaires. Joe has been in DC for 50 years and what we see today could be labeled trickle down bidenomics. It is a small club and the vast majority of Americans aren’t in it. Every time I see a picture like the one above I get an overwhelming urge to take a hot shower.
tgusa says
Every time a Biden pulls in to a neighborhood a thousand toilets flush around town.
OLD GUY says
Two top of the line CROOKS.