Posted on 12/18/2023 5:11:46 AM PST by Red Badger
The House Oversight investigation into President Joe Biden and his family's influence-peddling schemes digs all the way back to ties to the late-’90s big tobacco settlement, including James Biden's deal-working caught on FBI tapes in an unrelated 2008 bribery scheme.
James Biden's deal-making getting picked up on FBI tapes in 2008, as The Washington Post reported Sunday, are resurfacing amid the House Oversight investigation and the official impeachment inquiry.
Mississippi trial attorney Richard Scruggs admitted to paying James and Sara Biden's "consulting firm" $100,000 to help grease the wheels for the Senate to pass a 1997 big tobacco law that would ultimately fail. James Biden was key, because he was the brother of then Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Joe Biden.
Then-Sen. Joe Biden began as one of the bill's most vocal opponents before he flipped to be one of its staunchest defenders, according to the report, although it never did pass.
"I probably wouldn't have hired him if he wasn't the senator's brother," Scruggs told the Post.
"Jim was never untoward about his influence. He didn't brag about it or talk about it. He didn't have to. He was the man's brother."
Scruggs did not need the law to pass to enrich himself. The $248 billion Big Tobacco settlement in 1998 would ultimately net Scruggs and his firm between $300 million and $400 million, according to the Post.
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I have never smoked cigarettes, and don’t like the habit, but we should have all seen what they were doing to tobacco users is exactly the model they want to use for many other activities they disagree with.
Such as the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendment, for starters.
“Then-Sen. Joe Biden began as one of the bill’s most vocal opponents before he flipped to be one of its staunchest defenders, according to the report, although it never did pass”
Well, in all fairness it was a really big check. 😏
The “dirty tricks” have been going on for a long time. When Joe Biden was passed over in 1988 for the Presidential nomination, people only thought they had dodged a bullet. Little did they know that it would ricochet all over the place and return like a guided missile years later.
Who injected the Clintons into that campaign, anyway? They were the ones that introduced the scandal of Joe’s plagiarized speech and general embellishments of his “achievements”.
As Freepers...we’ll all wind up in jail before any Biden does.
At some point the American people would have to wake up and say ENOUGH!.....................
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There’s good info here…h/t to isthisnickcool
They’re quickly on their way to being known as the biggest mob family in history.
Somewhere Al Capone is saying to himself: If only I had gone into politics!...................
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