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Rogue Financier Stanford Linked to Fund Run by Bidens
Foxnews.com ^ | February 23, 2009 | The Wall Street Journal

Posted on 02/24/2009 4:23:43 AM PST by Scanian

A fund of hedge funds run by two members of Vice President Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by companies controlled by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who is facing Securities and Exchange Commission accusations of engaging in an $8 billion fraud.

The $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and a Stanford Financial Group entity and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund. Stanford-related companies marketed the fund to investors and also invested about $2.7 million of their own money in the fund, according to a lawyer for Paradigm. Paradigm Global Advisors is owned through a holding company by the vice president's son, Hunter, and Joe Biden's brother, James.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: biden; bidens; bidenscandal; corruption; cultureofcorruption; democratcorruption; obamascandal; stanford
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1 posted on 02/24/2009 4:23:43 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Oh, holy smokes... this administration is in it up to their pencil-thin mustaches!


2 posted on 02/24/2009 4:25:42 AM PST by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Scanian

Veeerrry interesting.


3 posted on 02/24/2009 4:26:54 AM PST by TheWasteLand
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To: Oberon

I am lost here. I mean, this is problem how? (/SARC!)


4 posted on 02/24/2009 4:27:48 AM PST by shoutingandpointing
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To: Scanian

Nothing will come of this.


5 posted on 02/24/2009 4:29:02 AM PST by Steely Tom (RKBA: last line of defense against vote fraud)
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To: Steely Tom
Nothing will come of this.

You are perhaps correct, but it will add to the veneer of sleaze that appears to be enveloping this administration.

6 posted on 02/24/2009 4:32:57 AM PST by mort56
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To: Scanian

OK. It is time, way past time, to start muckraking this whole “new” administration.

From tax cheats to this stuff...

Bail-outs my sorry *ss. These people are just trying to protect their own fortunes at the Peoples expense.

Now follow the rest of the story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,496285,00.html


7 posted on 02/24/2009 4:33:01 AM PST by EBH (The world is a balance between good & evil, your next choice will tip the scale.)
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To: Scanian

I’m shocked..../s

The Biden’s lawyer’s statement was funny, “no contact between...full stop..” and the lawyer would know this how?


8 posted on 02/24/2009 4:37:48 AM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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I thought the Biden’s were just Government servants?


9 posted on 02/24/2009 4:45:23 AM PST by scooby321
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To: Oberon
This Stanford guy will have to be swept under the carpet before Obama’s bus runs him over... “There nothing to see here, move along”
10 posted on 02/24/2009 5:02:38 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Scanian

I finally understand why Obama picked Biden—and it isn’t because Biden’s son is the prosecutor who has Larry Sinclair in jail, is it?


11 posted on 02/24/2009 5:07:27 AM PST by browniexyz
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To: Scanian

Alway, always, always follow the money........


12 posted on 02/24/2009 5:20:08 AM PST by bestintxas (It's great in Texas)
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To: Scanian

Haliburton...


13 posted on 02/24/2009 5:25:59 AM PST by tiredoflaundry (Sometimes, I guess there's just not enough bags of popcorn.)
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To: EBH

whoa !


14 posted on 02/24/2009 5:28:04 AM PST by tiredoflaundry (Sometimes, I guess there's just not enough bags of popcorn.)
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To: Scanian

A fund of hedge funds run by two members of Vice President Joe Biden’s family was marketed exclusively by companies controlled by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford


That’s a pretty stong link isn’t it?


15 posted on 02/24/2009 5:55:21 AM PST by Rippin
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To: Scanian
And the "press" flat-out refused to to explore the Biden family's intense lobbying interests despite Obama's frequent anti-lobbyist rhetoric.

What cheap whores.

16 posted on 02/24/2009 6:21:56 AM PST by cookcounty (Impeach President dOOm!)
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Maybe Joe Biden didn’t want to contribute more than $370 a year to charity because he felt guilty about contributing dirty money?


17 posted on 02/24/2009 6:23:53 AM PST by cookcounty (Impeach President dOOm!)
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To: Scanian

Say it ain’t so, Joe! LMAO!


18 posted on 02/24/2009 6:37:21 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
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To: Scanian

BTTT Big time.


19 posted on 02/24/2009 6:37:45 AM PST by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: shoutingandpointing

It’s only a problem if they’re related to a GOP politician.


20 posted on 02/24/2009 6:43:51 AM PST by Boiling Pots (The Gov't trying to fix the economy is like the Three Stooges trying to fix your plumbing)
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