Exclusive—Alex Marlow’s ‘Breaking Biden’: Joe Biden Covered for Brother Frank After He Was Involved in Fatal Hit-and-Run Car Crash
Frank Biden - Joe's brother
In July of 1999, Frank Biden let a young friend named Jason Turton drive his Jaguar to a concert at a tavern in Cardiff, California. Frank’s Florida driving license had been suspended, so he rode shotgun during the trip, controlling the stick shift himself while giving Turton instructions.
At one point, they had the Jaguar humming along at over 70 mph in a 35-mph zone when they slammed into a pedestrian crossing the street. They drove off, leaving the victim to die at the scene. Two witnesses who were in the back seat during the crash claim that Frank Biden told Turton to “keep driving” after the fatal collision. The victim, Michael Albano, was a single father whose death left behind two young daughters.
Turton eventually pleaded guilty to “felony hit and run” charges, while Frank was hit with a wrongful-death lawsuit in August 2000 by the guardians of the Albano daughters. Frank never showed up to the court-house for any hearings, and he refused to reply to “any legal correspondence from the court, including a court final judgment in September 2002 that Frank owed each of the girls $275,000 for his role in the tragedy,” Peter Schweizer reported in his book Profiles in Corruption.
The Albano girls eventually hired a private investigator to track down where Frank was hiding so he could accept service of documents. Investigators said they had received information that Frank occasionally lived at his brother Joe’s house in Delaware, but they were unable to locate a bank account for Frank, who had become evasive.
Eight years later, in 2008, attorneys for the Albano sisters reached out to the soon-to-be vice president, Joe Biden, in the hopes that he could help them collect the money Frank owed them. Even though Joe Biden’s own wife and daughter were killed in an automobile accident, he seemed to show no sympathy for the Albanos and did not respond to them. Biden’s chief of staff replied callously: “Senator Biden has received your letter of September 16 regarding a judgment by your clients against his brother Frank. The Senator wishes to express his deep sympathy with the Albano daughters over their loss. . . . Frank has no assets with which to satisfy the judgment. The Senator regrets that this is where matters stand and that he cannot be more helpful.”
Joe’s team covered for Frank, even when it meant denying orphaned girls what was rightfully theirs.
Schweizer believes that Joe was being dishonest about Frank’s ability to compensate the victims. “Frank Biden was earning money,” he reported. “Indeed, seven days before Joe Biden’s office sent that letter, his brother was slapped with a tax lien from the IRS for $23,638.59 in unpaid taxes. In total, he owed more than $32,000 at the time, a clear indication that Frank had income. In 2013, he paid off the tax lien in full.”
With interest, Frank owed them a debt of $900,000 in 2019. Less than a year after Schweizer published the aforementioned letter, the Daily Mail reported that after two decades, Frank Biden had finally agreed to pay the Albano family some of the money.
Meanwhile, as he avoided this particular financial obligation, Frank was out hustling using the family name. Throughout Joe’s vice presidency (2009–2017), for example, Frank was a dealmaker in several complex international real estate development schemes in Costa Rica and Jamaica, putting himself in a position to get access to substantial U.S. government funding dedicated to those countries.
I also document in the book a charter school company that Frank oversaw that bagged federal grants. It failed students, but Frank has enough in his coffers to fly around in private jets, ostensibly on the job of promoting the schools.
October 06, 2023, 04:10 PM
Pipe Smoker
^^^^^ Joe, Hunter, and Frank. A family of vipers. Well protected vipers.
Don’t argue with fools.
October 06, 2023, 05:56 PM
Ripley
^^^^
Entitlement runs deep in the Bidens.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
October 09, 2023, 02:48 PM
wcb6092
Biden not seen publicly for TWO days after making speech lasting just THREE MINUTES as nine Americans confirmed dead in Israel
Administration hosted a BBQ with live music for White House staff on Sunday
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October 09, 2023, 03:06 PM
TMats
quote:
Originally posted by wcb6092: Biden not seen publicly for TWO days after making speech lasting just THREE MINUTES as nine Americans confirmed dead in Israel
Administration hosted a BBQ with live music for White House staff on Sunday
And then, vacant look on his face, walks off stage taking no questions after his short statement.
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October 10, 2023, 08:19 AM
PASig
Joe Biden’s foreign policy summed up in one gif:
October 10, 2023, 12:22 PM
erj_pilot
Check the lying sack of fecal matter out. He actually MIGHT be telling the truth on this one, but he found a way to phukk up a wet dream. Of course we all know his handlers are telling him what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. But THIS...from 16 years ago:
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
October 10, 2023, 12:45 PM
Rightwire
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Originally posted by sdy: ]
Why is it, that every time a Democrat does something really stupid or illegal, they are able to wipe it away buy stating it was simple misunderstanding?
Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys
343 - Never Forget
Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat
There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive.
The jackass known as Joe Biden is continually a disappointment and embarrassment to anyone that can think critically and with logic. Hopefully in just over a year from now we'll be able to unshackle ourselves from this dolt!
___________________________ No thanks, I've already got a penguin.
October 13, 2023, 03:00 PM
stoic-one
God help us, sooner or later that idiot is going to actually hurt himself, and no one will be able to explain it away...
No worries, mates, the VP is standing by, just in case. Kind of.
"Just how bad is it for Harris? This bad: Earlier this year, an NBC News poll found that 49% of voters have an unfavorable opinion of Harris, which is the lowest such rating for a vice president since NBC began conducting the poll in 1989.
Think about it: Kamala Harris is looking up at Dan Quayle’s approval numbers.
No wonder Joe Biden’s handlers sent her off on a month-long college tour. Yesterday, instead of being in the situation room with the rest of the president’s cabinet members or sitting down for an interview on the situation in the Gaza Strip, Harris was at the College of Southern Nevada as part of a “Fight for Our Freedoms” College Tour. As the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports, she’ll be “visiting community colleges, historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, apprenticeship programs and state schools, according to the White House.”" ... Back in March 2021, just a few weeks after Joe Biden took office, we wrote that his handlers “are likely to keep him propped up until the task becomes untenable and until they can figure a way out of the mess they’ve created — most likely by compassionately escorting him off the stage in favor of The First African-American-Indian-Jamaican Woman President in History.”
The first part of that assessment has proven spot-on, but the second part hasn’t aged well at all. Kamala Harris isn’t presidential material, and everyone now knows it."
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