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Showing Original Post only (View all)CEOs claim Biden's brother promised them 2020 candidate would help their companies [View all]
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According to sworn declarations contained in a court filing in Tennessee, James Biden told potential partners at two medical services companies that his brother Joe would help their companies land lucrative contracts with the court system.
Executives at Azzam Medical Services and Diverse Medical Management, firms that provide rural healthcare solutions, claim they were told by the younger Biden sibling that his brother would incorporate their healthcare model into his presidential campaign.
The allegations against James Biden are not new, and follow claims that Bidens son Hunter offered access to his father to help Chinese companies establish high-level influence in the US. But the latest accounts go further in establishing that Bidens relatives have sought to profit from his public service.
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In a third declaration, Diverse Medicals former general counsel Mitchell Cohen alleges that James Biden claimed his brothers connections at the Department of Veterans Affairs could help the firm land contracts with the department and, based on his connections with unions, help win contracts with first responders.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/27/joe-biden-brother-business-promises-executives-claim
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CEOs claim Biden's brother promised them 2020 candidate would help their companies [View all]
Uncle Joe
Aug 2019
OP
Spreading RW talking points & lies about the Clinton Foundation? are you seriously going to do this?
emulatorloo
Aug 2019
#41
The court document pdf is on The Guardian's website of the OP, I just re-posted
Uncle Joe
Aug 2019
#36
Possibly nothing, it's an allegation and pending lawsuit, I imagine it depends
Uncle Joe
Aug 2019
#72
It's an allegation about a person other than the candidate. I trust responsible journalists and
lapucelle
Aug 2019
#73
I view the Guardian as a responsible site of record and there are multiple others that have covered
Uncle Joe
Aug 2019
#74
I believe it's as good as the rest and as I stated, they're not the only one that
Uncle Joe
Aug 2019
#77
Well I believe there are worse case scenarios than that but just taking your scenario
Uncle Joe
Aug 2019
#87
A lawsuit doesn't involve a trial. If lawsuits did, we would have known about this one earlier:
ehrnst
Aug 2019
#89
False, a lawsuit can reach a settlement which happens most of the time or go to civil trial. n/t
Uncle Joe
Aug 2019
#94
OK - noted. However, this lawsuit was far, far more directly involved with a POTUS candidate
ehrnst
Aug 2019
#95
We definitely know about the $30,000 harassment settlement against the Sanders campaign.
ehrnst
Aug 2019
#98
We don't know the full circumstances, result nor the end date of the lawsuit against
Uncle Joe
Aug 2019
#102
So you're holding out for a connection to Candidate Biden that is more damning than
ehrnst
Aug 2019
#103
Interesting, though, that every time one of Bernie's campain staff does something stupid,
vsrazdem
Aug 2019
#11
BS hired each of those staffers and is responsible for their actions until he fires them....
George II
Aug 2019
#14
Candidates do not personally hire all of their campaign staff throughout the country.
vsrazdem
Aug 2019
#18
They're responsible when the staff screw up Biden isn't responsible when his brother screws up
uponit7771
Aug 2019
#46
Bidens' brother isn't on his campaign staff. And to dismiss sexual harassment as simply "stupid"
ehrnst
Aug 2019
#90
I do find it so interesting how an OP about Biden somehow becomes about Bernie Sanders.
vsrazdem
Aug 2019
#56
We are skeptical of right wing news outlets/sources. In fact, they're frowned upon.
George II
Aug 2019
#12
What's your point, are you now cataloging and indexing all of my posts here on DU?
George II
Aug 2019
#28
Salon can fuck off...they bashed Hillary non-stop and helped elect Trump who can forget...
Demsrule86
Aug 2019
#42
Americans have always been skeptical of outlets tightly aligned with political parties no? tia
uponit7771
Aug 2019
#47
Actually I find that interesting as well George but perhaps not for the same reason you do.
Uncle Joe
Aug 2019
#16
Nope. Hunter's out, too. That guy's almost as obnoxious as Bernie Sanders.
LincolnRossiter
Aug 2019
#22
Just reading comments on this thread and then your comment..literally, figuratively
asiliveandbreathe
Aug 2019
#79
... that few people care about in the long run. None of this is going to be a show stopper for Biden
uponit7771
Aug 2019
#48
It's interesting how the GOP supports (via attack ads on a rival) or stays quiet about a Democratic
ehrnst
Aug 2019
#99
He certainly doesn't think they're all corrupt enough to refuse their $$, I'll give you that.
ehrnst
Aug 2019
#92
You challenged Sheshe2's claim that Bernie called all Medical corporate CEOs "corrupt."
ehrnst
Aug 2019
#113
I'm going to wait to hear from MSM. I always do that when some info sounds fishy to me.
napi21
Aug 2019
#54
The same MSM that breathlessly announced Biden...demise over what has been proven to be
Demsrule86
Aug 2019
#64
lol LIKELY VOTER Harris X Aug.23-26: Biden 36%, Sanders 14%, Warren 14%, Harris 6%, Buttigieg 5%
stonecutter357
Aug 2019
#58
And those that were hoping the "fbi investigation in to Jane and Bernie Sanders" would materialize
Hassin Bin Sober
Aug 2019
#122