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How Frank Biden leveraged his famous name for business gain
ABC News ^ | January 17, 2020 | https://abcnews.go.com/author/lucien_bruggeman

Posted on 10/27/2020 9:40:50 PM PDT by conservative98

How Frank Biden leveraged his famous name for business gain

"They brought him in for his name," one critic said of Frank Biden.

By Lucien Bruggeman

January 17, 2020, 5:08 AM

In 2009, the year Joe Biden took office as vice president, a local business executive met the politician’s younger brother, Frank, at a Starbucks in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and later asked him to become the president and front man for a fledgling charter school venture.

Frank Biden, a longtime real estate developer in the state, accepted the offer, and over the years, he touted his famous last name and prominent connections in Washington to help land the company a series of charter contracts from local officials in Florida to open charter schools, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars over a five-year period from the company in the process.

In media interviews at the time, Frank Biden was unabashed – calling his last name “a tremendous asset” because of the family’s record of “taking care of people who need help,” and telling people it brought him “automatic acceptance” as he sought government approvals for the for-profit Mavericks in Education.

Claims of mismanagement would ultimately bog down many of those schools, which focused on educating at-risk teens with troubled backgrounds. In at least two separate lawsuits, Mavericks schools faced allegations of inflating enrollment as part of a scheme to garner more government funding. The charters were eventually sold and the schools reorganized under new management.

Critics suggest that when Frank Biden touted his family name to promote the Mavericks’ charter schools, it was just one example of the Biden family actively benefiting from sharing a name with the vice president. Now it could pose challenges for the former VP as he seeks the Democratic Party nomination for president

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; frankbiden; joebiden

1 posted on 10/27/2020 9:40:51 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

when the media was on the Bernie train.. now it’s sshhhhhh


2 posted on 10/27/2020 9:46:40 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: conservative98

From January 2020. Tons of articles like these. Now silence.
3 posted on 10/27/2020 9:49:25 PM PDT by conservative98
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With all the high level international corruption revealed with Joe, Hunter, Jim, and even the late Beau, they are going with this small time story about Frank? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!


4 posted on 10/27/2020 9:50:22 PM PDT by ETCM
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It’s from January. They were running these stories. Now it’s Russian collusion?


5 posted on 10/27/2020 10:10:30 PM PDT by conservative98
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For context, when @ABC allowed this Frank Biden story to run in January 2020, @JoeBiden was all but cooked in the #Democrat primaries. He would get blown out in #Iowa & #NewHampshire, but suddenly it all changed & so did the #MSM coverage. #BidenHarris2020https://t.co/QlKbYpCHXe— Greg Roman (@RomanEcho) October 28, 2020

And

Joe Biden's younger brother Frank Biden is a 'piece of crap' says one of the two orphaned daughters still owed $1m by VP's brother for his Jaguar's 80-mph hit-and-run which killed their father 20 years agohttps://t.co/XThptFXVqU— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) October 20, 2020


6 posted on 10/27/2020 10:16:49 PM PDT by conservative98
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It’s from January. They were running these stories. Now it’s Russian collusion?

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They are lying vile communists. Lying is what they do. Period.


7 posted on 10/27/2020 10:21:25 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: conservative98

Thanks. In my indignation, I missed the date. Reflecting, I actually remember this story coming out. Funny, this low level story is published a month after the FBI subpoenaed and seized Hunter’s laptop.


8 posted on 10/27/2020 10:30:02 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: conservative98

Given their corruption, carelessness, and lack of return for investment, I wont be surprised if CCP and/or big-money has someone from the family eliminated. Maybe a reason that Joe stays hidden in the basement.


9 posted on 10/27/2020 10:43:34 PM PDT by Swirl
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Hell...send all of the Biden’s on that sloboat.

1.4 BILLION v. ??? CCP

You say you want a revolution?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLGzRXY5Bw

SloJoe, Hunter, Hillary, Obama are put on a sloboat to CHYna where they are properly punished for their crimes against humanity. Tony Wuhan Wormhead Fauci and Trey microSoftkill Billygoat Gates of Hell are on the boat with them.

Hunter is placed in the worst prison for beating and raping little Chinese girls. The others are dealt with according to their crimes.

HOORAY Chinese new China.

Now that would be a revolution for the betterment of all of the individuals of the world.


10 posted on 10/27/2020 10:57:19 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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ABC is Disney
CNN is ATT
NBC, MSNBC are Comcast

Not sure about Disney, but I suspect there’s a telecom China connection with the other two


11 posted on 10/27/2020 11:29:12 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: ETCM

You’re still right about it. In January ABC covered this smaller Biden scandal. Now ABC decides to completely ignore the big one.


12 posted on 10/28/2020 2:26:34 AM PDT by conservative98
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Tony Bobulinski Full Interview with Tucker Carlson

Oct 27, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pg8yFvUD8I&ab_channel=neotech40


13 posted on 10/28/2020 3:51:19 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Tony Bobulinski Full Interview with Tucker Carlson

Oct 27, 2020

[Backup channel, save them just in case.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyRPZzDEv0Q&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=COIL


14 posted on 10/28/2020 4:17:07 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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