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Biden brother's law firm touts his connection to the president, creating an early headache for administration
The Washington Post via SF Gate ^ | January 30, 2021 | by Annie Linskey and Alice Crites

Posted on 01/31/2021 4:00:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON - The Florida law firm that employs President Joe Biden's brother Frank ran a newspaper ad on Inauguration Day touting the brothers' relationship and shared values, a move that is causing an ethics headache for the administration less than two weeks after Biden took office.

Biden has promised to lead a highly ethical administration, which he has pitched as a contrast to his predecessor, and has adopted unusually strict rules for those serving in his administration, although they do not necessarily apply to family members.

The two-page "advertorial" ran on Jan. 20 in the South Florida-based Daily Business Review to promote the work of the Berman Law Group, which employs Frank Biden as a "non-attorney senior adviser."

The ad features a smiling photo of Frank Biden and highlights his relationship with the president, stressing their shared values. It focuses on the Berman Law Group's role in a class-action case against sugar cane growers and Frank Biden's part in that litigation.

The ad is fashioned to resemble a news story about the firm's involvement in the sugar cane case, though it is clearly labeled "Advertorial Section." It cites Frank Biden's connection with the president multiple times, linking the law firm's work with the values laid out in President Biden's agenda.

In the second paragraph of a roughly 1,000-word advertisement, for example, the text says the Berman Law Group sued sugar cane growers "against the backdrop of incoming President Joseph Biden Jr.'s commitment to environmental and social justice, a value shared by his brother and Berman Law Group senior adviser, Frank Biden."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: berman; bermanlawgroup; biden; bidenfamily; bigsugar; classactiinlawsuits; corruption; cuba; election2020; frankbiden; journalism; lawyers; sugar; sugarcane

1 posted on 01/31/2021 4:00:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ah, typical... the reason the Dems go after US sugar cane growers is because US sugar competes with Cuba sugar globally.


2 posted on 01/31/2021 4:05:34 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s not a headache, they’ll just ignore it.


3 posted on 01/31/2021 4:07:10 AM PST by Renkluaf
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Biden has promised to [....]”

Stopped reading right there. Buyden was (s)elected with full knowledge of anyone who knows anything about him that he is a proven, unreformed prevaricator to his “promises”. The sentence should have been written something like this:

“Joe Buyden, with his lifetime of plagarism, fibs, stories, lies and making “promises” he never kept, “promised” again to the gullible, the ignorant, Trump haters, and party extremists that incredibly he would lead a highly ethical administration....”


4 posted on 01/31/2021 4:12:07 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Emolulents OMG OMG OMG


5 posted on 01/31/2021 4:12:41 AM PST by pas
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The Florida law firm that employs President Joe Biden’s brother Frank”

If you weren’t aware please make surexyoi understand bro frank IS NOT a licensed attorney.

That makes his association with a law firm even more dubious IMO.

Also, I Take it as a personal insult that he is in my home state. Hopefully he is on Gov. Desantis and our AGs radar.


6 posted on 01/31/2021 4:21:09 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is it the kind of headache that 10% for the Big Guy can cure?


7 posted on 01/31/2021 4:36:02 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So it’s a headache for the administration now, but wasn’t a headache for Obama’s administration when SlowJoe was VP and his family was raking in billions using his position as a tool? Things change quickly.


8 posted on 01/31/2021 4:42:59 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (They HAD to kill somebody for their plan to work. RIP Ashli.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Joe’s brother has been living off his connection to Joe his entire adult life


9 posted on 01/31/2021 5:12:45 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: All
This is s-o-o-o-o dam bogus.......all of it is a diversion.
The Biden Crime Family now has free and easy access to the trillion dollar US Treasury, chock full of our tax dollars........

China (and Hunter) are in the wings to assist the salivating Bidens to slobber at the public trough.
In fact, Joe Biden has already begun the laundering of our tax dollars.The Alleged President has no shame whatsoever .....
says wearing masks is....wait for it...."a good way to start pulling the country together.” (cue hysterical laugh machine here)

===============REALITY CHECK=======================

In July of this year, Natural News reported how California Gov. Gavin Newsom was caught wiring half a billion dollars to communist China as part of a “massive face mask money laundering scheme. Back in April, even the mainstream media was questioning what Newsom was up to when it was revealed that he had wired half a billion dollars to an electric car company in China to supposedly purchase “N-95 masks” for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19).

FYI---The opportunistic Biden dove headfirst into the "mask" money launder.
How many billions of our tax dollars will Biden send CCP for this shady deal?

CNBC.COM..Wed, Nov 11 2020, By Cory Stieg

MSM CAPTION Joe Biden holds a protective mask as he speaks to the media after receiving
a briefing from his transition COVID-19 advisory board Nov 09, 2020.(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Lookout taxpayers.....when Biden wears that worn out "trust me face" with appropriate frown, he's up to no dam good.

More mask mandates says Biden---- While there has been no national mandate, Biden plans to “implement mask mandates nationwide by working with governors and mayors (who are already in on the mask laundering scam),” according to the Biden-Harris transition website. Biden plans to personally call governors and mayors of major cities to encourage mask mandates, NBC News reported Sunday. --snip--- On the campaign trail, Biden said he supported national mask mandates in all federal buildings and all interstate transportation (which doesn’t currently exist), something that could be achieved through an executive order. --snip--

“Please, I implore you, wear a mask,” Biden said in a press conference Monday after meeting with his (cough) coronavirus advisory board.
“Do it for yourself. Do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement, but it is a good way to start pulling the country together.”

SOURCE https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/11/president-elect-joe-bidens-plan-to-combat-covid-19-benefits-explained.html

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(HAT TIP THINDEN: this Covid deal resembles the shady Obama/Biden-era Madison Guarantee/Savings Loan crisis on steroids, as follows:
<><> loans, handouts, govt purchases, and grants go to hand-picked entities and/or corporations...
<><> loans, handouts, govt purchases, and grants go to hand-picked entities and/or corporations...
<><> for public consumption, “straw man” entities go belly up & default....
<><> but the real money is moving through several stops on the way to Cyprus, off-shore banks, etc, for laundering...
<><> the laundered funds are then split;
<><> the usual cast of greedsters in line to cash in: pols of all stripes, Soros, The Clinton Foundation, Obama, Hunter Biden and the Biden Crime Family, etc.....
<><> Another version has bigtime US govt handouts, grants, foreign aid, (and IMF loans like the $5 bill to Ukraine).

10 posted on 01/31/2021 5:16:07 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Headache? No one will actually call out the Biden crime family for it.


11 posted on 01/31/2021 5:21:07 AM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Headache my ass. The EVIL DEMOCRATS LOVE THIS! It’s a poke in our eyes and they LOVE it!


12 posted on 01/31/2021 5:24:50 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Consistency is all over this. (sarcasm) The Compost went out of it’s way to ignore the Biden Crime Family so Biden would win. It makes you wonder why Jeff Bezos cares about this now. I suggest following the money and asking the question what did the Bidens do that upset Bezos. Someone is not getting what they paid for.


13 posted on 01/31/2021 5:44:45 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: piasa

I dunno so much? I think I find the Biden Cartel appointing the wife of Peter Strozk to head up the enforcement division of the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission, to be a tad more problematic?


14 posted on 01/31/2021 5:50:54 AM PST by blackdog (It's a good day to go Ceaucescu. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These Biden people, their greed knows no bounds. President Joe’s family will provide everything necessary to get him out of the way of America’s First Woman President. I think the desire in the media for a narrative is way more powerful than any love they have for Joe Biden. He will be a poster opposite of child for Senile Dementia. The Joseph R Biden Alzheimers Foundation will be an excellent vehicle for enriching the former First Family as President Harris and Vice President Clinton lead our country to the fullest expression of its potential.


15 posted on 01/31/2021 6:25:15 AM PST by webheart (COVID was not worth the economic misery that it took to keep me from getting it for 7 months..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What did people expect? They are Bidens.


16 posted on 01/31/2021 7:01:04 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Biden’s brother Frank about to release new product Frankie Beer?.


17 posted on 01/31/2021 8:39:35 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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