Posted by
Katy Grimes on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 3:37:12 PM
Isn't it interesting how the media is so focused on Sarah Palin's family? Let's see... she has a 17 year old daughter who is pregnant, and Palin's husband was arrested and charged in 1986 for driving under the influence, at the age of 22.
But the media is strangely silent about Democrat Joe Biden's son and brother, who are involved in a huge corruption lawsuit: The Washington post reported that "A son and a brother of
Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) are accused in two lawsuits of defrauding a former business partner and an investor of millions of dollars in a hedge fund deal that went sour, court records show."
There is more where that came from. I find the Biden family stories more compelling than a pregnant 17 year old girl who will do the right thing and will get married to her boyfriend or that her father, at the age of 22, got a DUI.
"Hunter Biden was made president with an annual salary of $1.2 million, despite his inexperience in the hedge fund industry, the lawsuit said. Before that, he had been part of the Washington law firm Oldaker, Biden & Belair, which earned $1.76 million in lobbying revenue in the first half of 2006, according to Congressional Quarterly's CQ MoneyLine. One of its biggest clients is the National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys, a District-based group representing law firms specializing in investment and corporate law.
Hunter Biden is one of many children and relatives of prominent members of Congress who have made their careers as lobbyists. He returned to lobbying after less than a year with Paradigm.
Lotito's lawsuit alleges that James Biden called him in January 2006 to arrange a job for Hunter Biden. It says James Biden told him that his brother (Sen. Biden) "was concerned with the impact that Hunter's lobbying activities might have on his expected campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination," and, "Biden told Lotito that, in light of these concerns, his brother had asked him to seek Lotito's assistance in finding employment for Hunter in a non-lobbying capacity."
and here are a few of the court documents that investigative journalists at
REALTIMEINVESTIGATORS found.
He writes, "Perhaps the most interesting thing I came across in the documents is the Bidens’ claim that they never would have entered the deal — which involved buying some hedge funds in a partnership with Lotito that was called LBB Holdings USA Inc. — if they were aware of Lotito’s background and the background of the corporate counsel Lotito hired for the venture — one John Fasciana. At the time that Lotito and the two Bidens hired Fasciana, he was awaiting sentencing on a 2005 fraud conviction. All I had to do to find those two DOJ press releases was to google John Fasciana — didn’t the Bidens do any due diligence in this $21 million deal? Apparently not"
For more on the Bidens, The American Thinker has some thoughts:
HERE
Being a Senator's son paid off handsomely: Hunter Biden at 28, less than two years out of law school, was already a "senior vice president" at Delaware-based credit card giant MBNA."
Be sure to read the comments section: Let's not forget Biden's other son (Joe jr, I believe) who is the Delaware Attorney General, and apparently did a huge favor for Obama. Last winter, a limo driver by the name of Larry Sinclair claimed he had done cocaine with Obama and had s*x with him in the back of his limo. On June 18, he was arrested in DC on a Delaware arrest warrant, issued by none other than Biden's son, apparently for stealing something from a Delaware diner.
Sinclair claims he is innocent, and as of July 25, Sinclair had yet to be presented with the arrest warrant. Also, his attorney is unable to locate any police reports relating to the matter. Hmmmm.
Could the veep slot be payback for silencing an embarrassing accuser? We'll probably never know.
Good lord. Who are these people? I'll take Sarah Palin anyday.