Posted on 09/02/2008 5:00:47 PM PDT by Paul Revere 76
The family of Joe Biden, who will be officially nominated as the vice presidential candidate of the Democratic Party's 'reform Washington' ticket with Barack Obama Thursday night, appears to be enmeshed in the same D.C. money game that Obama denounces.
One of the senator's sons -- Hunter, a Washington lobbyist -- and the senator's brother, James --received a $1 million investment in their purchase of a hedge fund company from the senator's largest political donor, an Illinois law firm, SimmonsCooper. The brother and the son subsequently repaid the $1 million to the law firm, which specializes in representing asbestos victims.
At about the same time, the firm also steered dozens of asbestos litigation cases to a Delaware law firm where the senator's other son, Beau, worked before moving on to become elected attorney general of the state of Delaware. Beau Biden is credited with acquiring the Illinois client for his firm whose long time managing partner describes himself as a Biden family friend
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Emeshesed? Enmeshed?
Rutt roow.......
They are just doing this now to provide cover. 1)See, we attacked Joe’s kids too. 2)But since kids are off limits, we can’t talk about it unless we are hypocrites.
Biden is the quintessential Washington insider. Lived within 250 miles of DC his entire life.
Do you want to listen to that shrew for two months?
If Biden were a Republican, it would be front page news for weeks. We all know that is not the world we live in though.
And we should be surprised that the Democrats up are to their arses in lobbyists?
If journalists were proctologists, they would be having a field day with this. Oh, “let the laugh shine in”.
Unfortunately, most mainstream media journalists are so far up the Demos asses that it would take a team of proctologists with a searchlight to find them up there.
During his fifth year as Vice President, in the late summer of 1973, Agnew was under investigation by the U.S. Attorneys office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery, and conspiracy. In October, he was formally charged with having accepted bribes totaling more than $100,000, while holding office as Baltimore County Executive, governor of Maryland, and Vice President of the United States. On October 10, Agnew was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $29,500 of income received in 1967, with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President.
Agnew is to date the only Vice President in U.S. history to resign because of criminal charges. Ten years after leaving office, in January 1983, Agnew paid the state of Maryland nearly $270,000 as a result of a civil suit that stemmed from the bribery allegations.
Because of him I am sceptical of all politicans who hail from east of the Mississippi River.
Wow — an article about Biden? LOL!
SimmonsCooper law firm is as SLIMY as it gets...and PROBABLY part of the Chicago Political Machine...they’re only about an hour and a half from Springfield, ILL.
Abortion and Euthanasia |
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Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) | Catholic politician who votes for abortion in contradiction to Church teachings. One of American Life League's "Deadly Dozen." |
Preparing the way to toss Biden under the bus and get Hillary on the ticket?
Yes, I'm that old!
SHHHHHHHH !! You wouldn’t want this to take attention away from Sarah Palin smears.
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"Looks like Biden could have benefitted from one of those late term abortions that he and Borat are so fond...
Posted by: colonel mandrake | August 27, 2008 at 07:37 PM"
>>Preparing the way to toss Biden under the bus and get Hillary on the ticket?<<
That’s what I suspect too.
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