Corruption is Everywhere > Especially among Biden Family friends

 

It's just my humble opinion, but I get the impression that the Biden Family is America's number one crime family. I'm sure I'm wrong though. Mind you, it's not unlike Deep State to choose a man, or woman, who has a number of skeletons in their closet. They are easier to control.

James Biden associate Keaton Langston

pleads guilty to $51M Medicare fraud

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Published May 27, 2024, 3:47 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — A former business associate of James Biden has agreed to plead guilty to 

conspiring to defraud Medicare of $51 million through a lab-testing company linked to the first

brother.

Keaton Langston, 39, admitted to using pharmacies, durable medical equipment companies and a laboratory in which he had a financial interest to bill for unnecessary tests and orders, the Justice Department disclosed last week in court filings.

James Biden, 75, has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing and has sought to distance himself from Langston, whose father Joey Langston also was associated with the first brother.

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Keaton Langston, a former business associate of James Biden, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud Medicare of $51 million.

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Keaton Langston founded Fountain Health, a lab company, in May 2017 and offered its services to rural hospital operator Americore Health, which later went bankrupt.

Records show James Biden was involved with Fountain Health in 2017 before connecting with Americore, which provided him in $600,000 in loans in 2018 as he allegedly vowed to use his political connections to secure foreign investors.

James passed $200,000 of the funds to Joe Biden in an alleged loan repayment.

Shortly after the lab firm launched, Joey Langston emailed James Biden and his son Keaton and three others on July 12, 2017, about an upcoming “meeting for Fountain Health partners,” Politico reported in February.

“Jim will report to the group the results of his discussions earlier today with a contact at [Blue Cross Blue Shield],” the elder Langston wrote. “There will also be discussion about how to proceed with the Union contacts that have been made by Jim and Keaton, within the last two weeks.”

Paul Fishman, an attorney for James Biden, did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but previously said his client “conducted himself ethically and honorably in all his business dealings.”

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Keaton’s father Joey Langston was also associated with James Biden.

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Keaton Langston agreed in September to repay Americore $240,000 in a civil settlement. James Biden agreed in 2022 to repay Americore $350,000.

Curious! A man who always conducted himself ethically and honorably would have to repay $350,000.

The Bidens and the Langstons have been linked financially for years.

The elder Langston hosted fundraisers for Joe Biden when he was a senator, ProPublica reported.

Joey Langston also loaned James Biden $800,000, with most of the installments coming toward the end of the Obama-Biden administration in 2016, and ended up only being repaid $400,000 of the amount, he told House impeachment investigators in February.

The wealthy Mississippi lawyer pleaded guilty in 2008 and was sentenced to three years in federal prison for being part of a plot to bribe a judge in an asbestos legal fees dispute.

He was seeking to overturn his conviction when he made loans to the then-vice president’s son.

Joey Langston’s alleged co-conspirator in the bribes case, attorney Dickie Scruggs, was involved in a second prosecution for attempting to bribe a different judge.

James Biden was wiretapped by the FBI in 2007 as part of its investigation of the second bribery case, the Washington Post reported in December.

James was in talks at the time with Scruggs and conspirator Tim Balducci about setting up a law firm that would have employed himself, his nephew Hunter Biden and James’ wife Sara.

Then-Sen. Biden went from an opponent of federal legislation to sanction tobacco companies for lying about the addictiveness of cigarettes to a supporter after Scruggs — who planned a multibillion-dollar lawsuit — paid James Biden’s lobbying firm $100,000 in 1998, the Washington Post reported.

“I probably wouldn’t have hired him if he wasn’t the senator’s brother,” Scruggs told the paper.

Scruggs also flew Joe Biden to a fundraiser on his private plane, the Washington Post reported.

Joe Biden has consistently claimed he “never” discussed business with his son or brother and said in December and again in March that he “did not” interact with their partners, including foreign associates in countries where he held sway as vice president.

Evidence including photos, emails and witness statements indicate that Biden actually interacted with his son and brother’s associates from two Chinese government-linked business ventures and their patrons from Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia and Ukraine.

James Biden was a partner with first son Hunter in many ventures and allegedly wasn’t always coy about the angle he was pushing to investors.

“We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden,” James allegedly said in the early 2000s as he and Hunter were in the process of acquiring investment bank Paradigm, according to a 2021 book by Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger.

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Corruption is Everywhere > Khan's conviction and sentence suspended in Pakistan; 1000+ Emails connect Joe and Hunter's firm when Joe was VP

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If there is a major country that can rival Ukraine for corruption it would be Pakistan.

Pakistani court suspends former PM Khan’s graft conviction and jail sentence

A Pakistani court on Tuesday suspended the corruption conviction and three-year

prison sentence of former prime minister Imran Khan, his lawyer said.

Issued on: 29/08/2023 - 11:00; 1 min

In this photo taken on July 26, 2023, Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan leaves

the Supreme Court in Islamabad. © Aamir Qureshi, AFP

By: FRANCE 24

The Islamabad High Court also granted bail for Khan, but it’s not immediately clear if he will be released since he also faces several other charges. 

Khan's lawyer Shoaib Shaheen said the court issued a brief verbal order and a written ruling will be issued later.

The ruling comes weeks after Khan was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison by another court that found him guilty of concealing assets after selling state gifts he received while in office.

Khan was imprisoned on August 5 after being sentenced to three years in jail for unlawfully selling state gifts during his tenure as prime minister from 2018 to 2022.

As a result of the conviction, Pakistan's Election Commission also barred Khan from contesting elections for five years.

The cricketer-turned-politician was ousted from power through a no-confidence vote in parliament last year.

The ruling came a day after a court in the western province of Balochistan quashed a sedition case against Khan.

The case was registered in the southwestern city of Quetta in March, the capital of the province, based on an allegation that one of Khan's speeches was seditious.

Balochistan High Court said on Monday that prosecutors had failed to obtain the required consent from the federal or provincial government to lodge sedition charges.

The charges are "without lawful authority and are of no legal effect", the court ruled, throwing out the case.

Khan lost power after falling out with Pakistan's influential military, and his attempts to rally popular support have stirred political turmoil in a country already struggling with one of its worst economic crises.

A general election was expected in November, though it is likely to be delayed until at least early next year.

Aside from the graft and sedition cases, Khan is also facing charges ranging from terrorism and encouraging assaults on state institutions – after his supporters attacked military and government installations in May – as well as abetment to murder following the slaying of a Supreme Court lawyer in June.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)

Hunter Biden’s firm, Joe’s VP office exchanged more than 1,000 emails: records

By Victor Nava, NYPost

August 30, 2023 10:47pm  UpdatedB

House Oversight panel demands files on Hunter Biden’s use of Air Force Two: ‘Must be accountability’

Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca Partners investment firm traded more than 1,000 emails with Joe Biden’s office during his time as vice president — and hundreds remain hidden because of executive privilege asserted by the White House, documents released by the National Archives show. 

The 861 emails that reference Rosemont Seneca were sent or received by the Office of the Vice President between January 2011 and December 2013, according to America First Legal, which obtained the messages from the National Archives and Records Administration and released them on Wednesday. 

The White House refused to allow the release of 200 emails referencing Hunter Biden’s firm, citing executive privilege.  

“Release would disclose confidential advice between the President and his advisors, or between such advisors,” NARA informed America First Legal in response to its records request. 

Hunter Biden’s firm sent or received some 1,000 emails from then Vice President Joe Biden’s office. AP

Hunter Biden and his business associates frequently used their direct line of communications with the Office of the Vice President to leverage access to the Obama White House, the trove of emails show. 

White House guest lists, seating assignments, and biographies of guests for various official events, including the 2012 United Kingdom State Dinner, the 2013 Turkey State Luncheon and the 2014 France State Dinner, were shared with Rosemont Seneca employees. 

One email contains an invitation forwarded to the White House for then-Vice President Joe Biden to attend an event at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, and another invites then-second lady Jill Biden to participate in a World Food Program campaign. 

Invitations from the White House for several events that Hunter Biden presumably attended or had requested tickets for guests for are also shown in NARA’s document dump. 

In one frantic December 2013 email, lobbyist Doug Davenport begs Hunter Biden’s former business partner Eric Schwerin for tickets, on short notice, to the White House Christmas tour, indicating that Rosemont Seneca’s level of access to the Executive Mansion was well-known. 

“Hey guys……I am in a bad spot,” Davenport’s email begins. “I have a guy from Apple who is dying to take his 4 colleagues on a REGULAR WH Tour…see the tree, etc…..this Friday.”

“I know it is WAY short notice, but I would owe you my life if you could tell me any way possible to get my hands on some public tour tix for this Friday? Or am I just way out of line???” he adds. 

Schwerin then directs a Rosemont Seneca employee to “check with our friends over there” and informs Davenport that the only way the request would be possible would be to get them to “the front of the line.”

Hunter Biden’s former business partner Eric Schwerin was frequently in contact with the vice president’s office, the emails show. Twitter

Rosemont Seneca then contacts Joe Biden’s office and is able to secure Davenport’s last-minute request as a “Big favor for Hunter,” the email shows. 

“These records provide even more evidence that no daylight existed between Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings and the Office of the Vice President during the Obama Administration,” Gene Hamilton, America First Legal vice president and general counsel, said in a statement. 

“The evidence accumulating against the Biden family’s malfeasance is staggering. We will continue to put the pieces of this puzzle together and expose the truth to the American people,” he added. 

America First Legal, a group founded by Stephen Miller, a former senior adviser to President Donald Trump, received the documents from the National Archives in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for records from Joe Biden’s time as vice president.

Is America's #1 crime family in the White House?

Islam - Current Day - Dubai Princess Hostage; Arab Crime Family Raided in Germany; 42 Students and Staffers Kidnapped from Nigerian School

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Dubai Princess Latifa says she is being held hostage in video recordings

By Daniel Uria

Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, the daughter of Dubai's ruler, said she is being held hostage in a villa converted into a prison following a 2018 escape attempt. Photo courtesy Tiina Jauhiainen/Wikimedia Commons

Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The daughter of Dubai's ruler accused her father of holding her hostage in video messages released on Tuesday.

In the video footage shared with BBC Panorama and supplied to CNN, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum -- daughter of United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum -- said she has been imprisoned after attempting to flee the country.

"I'm a hostage. This villa has been converted into jail. All the windows are barred shut, I can't open any window ... I've been by myself, solitary confinement. No access to medical help, no trial, no charge, nothing," she said.

Latifa's friend, Tiina Jauhiainen, told the BBC that she helped sneak Latifa the phone that the videos were recorded on but the messages have recently stopped and she is deeply concerned for her friend.

"She is so pale, she hasn't seen sunlight for months. She can basically move just from her room to the kitchen and back," she said.

Latifa, 35, traveled to international waters to board a boat owned by French businessman Harve Jaubert in Feb. 2018, before the boat was boarded by commandos off the coast of India and she was returned to Dubai.

The videos were recorded over a series of several months about a year after she was returned to Dubai, the BBC said.

In the videos, Latifa said she fought back against the soldiers who attempted to take her off of the boat and was ultimately tranquilized and placed onto a private jet where she did not awaken until landing in Dubai.

After the 2018 escape attempt, former United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson visited Latifa, saying later that she was "troubled" and "regretted" her attempts to escape.

Robinson told BBC Panorama that she was misled by Princess Haya bint al-Hussein, the sixth wife of the sheikh who is not Latifa's mother, about her condition.

"Haya began to explain that Latifa had quite a serious bipolar problem. And they were saying to me, in a way that was very convincing: 'we don't want Latifa to go through any further trauma' ... I didn't know how to address somebody who was bipolar about their trauma. And I didn't really actually want to talk to her and increase the trauma over a nice lunch," she said.

Haya fled to London with her two children in 2019 and applied for a forced marriage protection order, fearing that they may be kidnapped as well.

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Notorious Arab crime family targeted in early morning raid by 100s of German police in Berlin & Brandenburg

18 Feb, 2021 10:29

(FILE PHOTO) © REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

German police and special forces have raided more than 25 properties in Berlin and Brandenburg in an early morning offensive against the country’s most notorious crime group. Two people were arrested.

Thursday morning’s operation was primarily aimed at members of the large Arab crime family, Remmo, who are being investigated as part of a crackdown on organized crime. 

The Berlin public prosecutor’s office is investigating them for violating laws on the distribution of firearms, large-scale drug trafficking and violent crime. The federal tax authorities are also involved in the investigation concerning allegations of tax fraud against members of the family.  

Police said two men had been arrested during the raids and another suspect escaped. The raid also targeted Chechen clans in the region who were involved in brutal clashes with the Remmo family in November 2020. Authorities feared a gang war could break out after the Chechens attacked members of the Remmo family and they then retaliated. 

The two groups reportedly agreed to a truce after Syrian-Lebanese professional boxer Manuel Charr mediated negotiations between them.  

According to Der Spiegel, German authorities had been analyzing data from EncroChat for nearly a year, a discontinued app dubbed "WhatsApp for gangsters," by criminologists. 

French security authorities managed to infiltrate an EncroChat server in spring 2020 and secretly read the chat traffic of tens of thousands of participants for months.

Armed gunmen abduct dozens of students, teachers from Nigeria school

By Sommer Brokaw

A sign for the Government Science College is pictured Thursday in Kagara, Niger State, Nigeria, one day after a group of gunmen abducted students and teachers from the boarding school. At least one student was killed. Photo by EPA-EFE

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- An assault on a boarding school in Nigeria that killed one person and led to more than 40 kidnappings has again raised suspicions about Boko Haram and drawn a strong rebuke from United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

The attack occurred on Wednesday at the school in Kagara in north-central Nigeria, officials said.

Authorities said one student was killed and a total of 42 staffers and students were kidnapped.

The state governor said more than 600 students were enrolled at the school.

No group has yet claimed responsibility, but the attack is similar to others in the past carried out by the Boko Haram terror group.

The group abducted almost 300 schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014, many of whom are still missing. Parents of some of those missing girls said last month that they had escaped from the group.

More than 300 schoolboys were abducted in Kanakar in December and later rescued. That abduction was blamed on local bandits.

The Kagara kidnappers demanded a ransom, which the government has refused to pay, saying the attackers would only use the money to buy more weapons and cause more harm.

Thursday, Guterres' office called the attacks on schools in Nigeria "abhorrent and unacceptable."

"The secretary-general urges the Nigerian authorities to spare no efforts in rescuing those abducted and holding to account those responsible for this act," a spokesperson said.

Yeah, right! 7 years and there has been very little effort by the government to rescue the girls. They rescued the 300 boys, but very few girls.