New reports reveal that James Biden, Joe Biden’s younger brother, was tape-recorded by the FBI during an investigation more than 30 years ago, giving more fodder to critics who claim there’s a Biden crime family.
That long-ago case left neither James, 74, or Joe Biden, 81, implicated in “any major criminal wrongdoing,” according to a report from the the New York Post.
But PJMedia explained what it looks like, “Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden, was caught on tape in the 1990s taking a bribe, and the FBI has video evidence of it. According to a report from the Washington Post, a corrupt trial attorney went to James Biden to get what he wanted… solely because he is Joe Biden’s brother.”
The case involved Richard Scruggs, a Mississippi trial attorney, who was on the edge of a resolution that would force tobacco companies to pay billions of dollars. But to get past the last hurdle, a signoff from a divided Congress, he reached out to Jim Biden, whose brother was “one of the mot skeptical senators.”
At the time Jim Biden was running a consulting firm and it was paid $100,000 for “advice on passing the bill.”
“I probably wouldn’t have hired him if he wasn’t the senator’s brother,” Scruggs said, according to the report. Joe Biden eventually backed the plan, but it failed in Congress anyway.
“Joe Biden was reportedly reluctant to support the legislation, but curiously, after his brother took the $100,000, he had an epiphany and supported the legislation,” the report explained.
You just gotta love those epiphanie$.
The Biden one$.