Posted on 05/27/2024 4:46:20 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — A former business associate of James Biden has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud Medicare of $51 million through a lab-testing company linked to the first brother.
Keaton Langston, 39, admitted to using pharmacies, durable medical equipment companies and a laboratory in which he had a financial interest to bill for unnecessary tests and orders, the Justice Department disclosed last week in court filings.
James Biden, 75, has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing and has sought to distance himself from Langston, whose father Joey Langston also was associated with the first brother.
Keaton Langston founded Fountain Health, a lab company, in May 2017 and offered its services to rural hospital operator Americore Health, which later went bankrupt.
Records show James Biden was involved with Fountain Health in 2017 before connecting with Americore, which provided him in $600,000 in loans in 2018 as he allegedly vowed to use his political connections to secure foreign investors.
James passed $200,000 of the funds to Joe Biden in an alleged loan repayment.
Shortly after the lab firm launched, Joey Langston emailed James Biden and his son Keaton and three others on July 12, 2017, about an upcoming “meeting for Fountain Health partners,” Politico reported in February.
“Jim will report to the group the results of his discussions earlier today with a contact at [Blue Cross Blue Shield],” the elder Langston wrote. “There will also be discussion about how to proceed with the Union contacts that have been made by Jim and Keaton, within the last two weeks.”
Paul Fishman, an attorney for James Biden, did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but previously said his client “conducted himself ethically and honorably in all his business dealings.”
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The same goes for Pedo Pete and the chicoms.
No one in particular was stealing.
James Biden, Joe Biden's brother, as he steps out of a closed door private interview with House Republicans WRT his business dealings during a break at Thomas P. O'Neill House Office Building on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. | Andrew Harnik/AP
POLITICO EXCLUSIVE
DOJ: Jim Biden associate conspired with alleged mafia boss to defraud Medicare
A new filing accuses Keaton Langston of participating in Medicare fraud alongside an alleged ‘consigliere’ to the Colombo crime family.
By BEN SCHRECKINGER, 03/18/2024, politico.com
Prosecutors said a business associate of Jim Biden conspired to defraud Medicare alongside an alleged leader of the Colombo crime family in a brief filed Friday in federal court in New Jersey.
The government’s accusation is likely to intensify scrutiny of the ties between President Joe Biden’s brother and the associate, Mississippi businessman Keaton Langston.
The Justice Department named Langston as a co-conspirator in the ongoing fraud case just three weeks after congressional investigators grilled Jim Biden about his relationship with the Mississippi businessman. In the course of a previous prosecution, the Justice Department identified a defendant in the fraud case, Florida businessman Thomas Farese, as a high-ranking member of the Colombo crime family, according to court filings.
Last month, POLITICO reported that Jim Biden had accompanied Langston, the son of a longtime friend, at a May 2017 meeting at which they pitched the services of Langston’s medical lab testing business to a hospital chain. The hospital chain, Americore, has become a focus of the impeachment inquiry led by House Republicans that is probing potential links between the president and his relatives’ business dealings.
A spokesperson for Jim Biden, Brian McDonough, did not respond to a request for comment. Though the government has identified Langston as a co-conspirator, he has not been named as a defendant in the case. He did not respond to requests for comment made to a phone number believed to belong to him. Attorney Casey Langston Lott, a cousin of Langston’s who has represented Langston at times, said he was not in a position to comment and did not respond to a follow-up request for help contacting Langston directly.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Joe Biden has said he never discussed his relatives’ business dealings.
POLITICO’s investigation found that Jim Biden leveraged his brother’s name to promote Americore and that his involvement with the hospital chain began with the May 2017 meeting, which also included Langston’s father, Joey Langston.
POLITICO also obtained emails from Joey Langston to Jim Biden, Keaton Langston and others related to the planning of partners’ meetings of the lab services business, Fountain Health.
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How long ago a former partner?
politico.com excerpt
POLITICO’s investigation found that Jim Biden leveraged his brother’s name to promote Americore and that his involvement with the hospital chain began with the May 2017 meeting, which also included Langston’s father, Joey Langston.
POLITICO also obtained emails from Joey Langston to Jim Biden, Keaton Langston and others related to the planning of partners’ meetings of the lab services business, Fountain Health.
In a prepared statement delivered last month to impeachment inquiry investigators, Jim Biden described a summer 2017 breakfast meeting in Florida with Keaton Langston, Joey Langston and Americore’s CEO in which he learned about Americore’s business model.
But in his interview with the congressional investigators, Jim Biden distanced himself from Keaton Langston. He said he had no role in Fountain Health and was not involved in any companies with Keaton Langston, according to a publicly released transcript.
In the interview, Jim Biden also testified about his relationship with Joey Langston. He described the elder Langston — a disbarred trial lawyer who pleaded guilty in 2008 to conspiring to bribe a judge — as a close friend and fielded questions about their financial ties.
Investigators said Joey Langston — who sat for his own impeachment inquiry interview last month — testified that he loaned Jim Biden roughly $800,000 and received roughly $400,000 back, according to the transcript. A lawyer for Jim Biden, Paul Fishman, told investigators those figures are “not inconsistent with what we believe,” according to the transcript.
Following their initial contacts with Americore, both Keaton Langston — who is listed as the sole member of a Fountain Health, LLC in Mississippi’s corporate registry — and Jim Biden went on to work with the company, which at its height operated a handful of hospitals across the eastern half of the United States.
Jim Biden helped Americore gain regulatory approval to acquire a hospital in Pennsylvania and worked to raise money for it from overseas investors (intimating he was using his brother Joe’s political contacts).
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Joe Biden has said he never discussed his relatives’ business dealings.
Sounds like Joe’s going to be pardoning the mob.
Heh....that i’d like to see.
51 mil...is that a misdemeanor if you’re a dim?
he pled guilty, what was the sentence?
The Burden family ONLY cares about MONEY AND POWER, THAT'S IT. Fraud, treason and money-laundering are the only things they're good at.
James Biden associate Keaton Langston pleads guilty to $51 Million Medicare fraud.
Booneville businessman pleads guilty in federal health care fraud case
NEWARK, N.J. (WTVA) — A businessman from Booneville has pleaded guilty to his part in scamming millions of dollars from Medicare and other health care programs.
WTVA 9 News shared a report last month by Politico that federal prosecutors accused Keaton Langston of being involved in Medicare fraud in New Jersey along with an alleged leader of a mob family.
Langston now awaits sentencing that could include time in prison.
No one in particular was stealing.
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
They had no intention to steal.
This will be the opening on Morning Joe tomorrow.
The barrel of fish hooks. All of them are crooks/ed
They all do business from Joe’s Mansion, and everyone is indicted except the Bidens.
Money falls from heaven to the Bidens.
The family that doesn’t work but they all drive Porsches and Land Rovers.
Even little kids got hundreds of thousands
Oh, I’m sure James had nothing at all to do with that. After all, he’s a Biden, a paragon of virtue and ethics.
When someone working at the top of China’s Govt was arrested here, the first call he made after being arrested was to James Biden, who then called Hunter. Hunter talked to Dad.
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