{"id":90076,"date":"2023-02-14T16:10:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T22:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90076"},"modified":"2023-02-14T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T22:10:22","slug":"90076","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90076","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why all of a sudden this comes out now? The demoncrap PTB are stabbing SloJoe in the back to so he can be forced to not run for re-election. so Goobernor Newsome can.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11731831\/Jim-Biden-negotiated-deal-Saudis-relationship-Joe.html\">Jim Biden admitted he was hired to negotiate with Saudis over a secret $140 million deal \u2018because of his position and relationship\u2019 to his VP brother Joe \u2014 who would be \u2018instrumental to the deal,\u2019 bombshell affidavit claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pf-candidate\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">President Biden&#8217;s brother was hired to engage in secret negotiations with the Saudi government on behalf of a US construction company because of his relationship with the then vice president, legal documents claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Jim Biden was selected because\u00a0<\/span><a id=\"mol-676bc640-ac9e-11ed-a669-216ab3bd8159\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/saudi_arabia\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-pf_style_display=\"inline\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/a><span class=\"text-node\">\u00a0&#8216;would not dare stiff the brother of the Vice-President who would be instrumental to the deal,&#8217;\u00a0 bombshell affidavits obtained by DailyMail.com allege.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Joe&#8217;s younger brother Jim, 73, was at the center of a $140 million settlement negotiation between Hill International and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">According to the documents, Jim told a former senior US Treasury official working as a private investigator that he was hired to negotiate with the Saudis &#8216;because of his position and relationship&#8217; to VP\u00a0<\/span><a id=\"mol-671541d0-ac9e-11ed-a669-216ab3bd8159\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/joe-biden\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-pf_style_display=\"inline\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Joe Biden<\/span><\/a><span class=\"text-node\">\u00a0\u2013 who led delegations to Saudi Arabia at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"pf-candidate\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">Affidavits claim Joe&#8217; Biden&#8217;s younger brother Jim, 73, was at the center of a $140m settlement between a US construction company and Saudi Arabia in 2012<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f88b892ac56f995a\" class=\"blkBorder img-share pf-large-image flex-width pf-size-full blockImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/21\/67507945-11731831-A_February_2011_contract_obtained_by_DailyMail_com_shows_Hill_In-a-2_1675977422398.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"A February 2011 contract obtained by DailyMail.com shows Hill International hired three law firms, R.L. Walker &amp; Co., Lankford &amp; Reed, and Poblete Tamargo, to help rake back $140m\u00a0 from the Saudis\" width=\"634\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/21\/67507945-11731831-A_February_2011_contract_obtained_by_DailyMail_com_shows_Hill_In-a-2_1675977422398.jpg\" data-pf_style_display=\"inline\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\" data-pf_rect_width=\"784\" data-pf_rect_height=\"36\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<p id=\"\" class=\"added-to-list1\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">A February 2011 contract obtained by DailyMail.com shows Hill International hired three law firms, R.L. Walker &amp; Co., Lankford &amp; Reed, and Poblete Tamargo, to help rake back $140m\u00a0 from the Saudis<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">In an affidavit the former Treasury official, Thomas Sullivan, described his sit-down interview with Jim Biden about being hired to negotiate with the Saudis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Sullivan claimed the President&#8217;s brother told him: &#8216;Of course, the [Biden] name didn&#8217;t hurt&#8217;, and Jim&#8217;s wife Sara, who was present, allegedly said that Joe and his brother &#8216;told each other everything.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">&#8216;[Biden] stated that he was often sent to meetings to represent Hill because &#8216;of course, the name didn&#8217;t hurt,&#8217; and he was the former Vice-President&#8217;s brother, or words to that effect. He repeated this statement at least twice during the interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">&#8216;I asked specifically if he had attended a meeting with the Saudi Ministry of Trade in mid-February 2012 to receive the final payment for the work Hill had performed. He answered that, to the best of his memory, he had been at such a meeting, and that the reason he had attended was &#8220;because of his position and relationship&#8221; with his brother.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group floatRHS\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">Jim Biden&#8217;s role in the Saudi negotiation emerged after a spat between the US construction firm Hill and their erstwhile lawyers over a payout from the Saudis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">The Saudi government owed Hill $140million for their work building desalination plants in the Middle Eastern kingdom dating back to the 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">A February 2011 contract obtained by DailyMail.com shows Hill hired three law firms, R.L. Walker &amp; Co., Lankford &amp; Reed, and Poblete Tamargo, to help rake back the money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">For years their negotiations were part of the &#8216;Special Claims Process&#8217;, a US government program to settle the kingdom&#8217;s unpaid debts to American firms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">But Lankford &amp; Reed claims Hill also hired Jim around 2011 to fix a back-door settlement for $100million, and failed to pay the lawyers their 40% cut after years of working on the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">In a May 2022 affidavit, Lankford &amp; Reed partner V. Thomas Lankford described the alleged double-cross.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">&#8216;After many delays, a meeting was finally scheduled for mid-February, 2012, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,&#8217; he wrote. &#8216;The Professional Firms were excluded from this meeting. Hill, acting through [its CEO, Irvin] Richter, sent Jim Biden \u2013 the then sitting Vice President&#8217;s brother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">&#8216;Richter confided that he selected Biden because KSA [the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia] would not dare stiff the brother of the Vice-President who would be instrumental to the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group mol-hidden-caption\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-7572eac974db4eab\" class=\"blkBorder img-share pf-large-image flex-width pf-size-full blockImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/17\/67507951-11731831-image-a-9_1675965182373.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/17\/67507951-11731831-image-a-9_1675965182373.jpg\" data-pf_style_display=\"inline\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\" data-pf_rect_width=\"634\" data-pf_rect_height=\"820\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<p id=\"\" class=\"added-to-list1\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group mol-hidden-caption\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f5d020bf5f3e319a\" class=\"blkBorder img-share pf-large-image flex-width pf-size-full blockImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/21\/67507959-11731831-image-a-3_1675977422399.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/21\/67507959-11731831-image-a-3_1675977422399.jpg\" data-pf_style_display=\"inline\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\" data-pf_rect_width=\"634\" data-pf_rect_height=\"823\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<p id=\"\" class=\"added-to-list1\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group mol-hidden-caption\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-99d025bf0309f135\" class=\"blkBorder img-share pf-large-image flex-width pf-size-full blockImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/21\/67507955-11731831-image-a-4_1675977422400.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/21\/67507955-11731831-image-a-4_1675977422400.jpg\" data-pf_style_display=\"inline\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\" data-pf_rect_width=\"634\" data-pf_rect_height=\"822\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<p id=\"\" class=\"added-to-list1\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group mol-hidden-caption\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-1dfef7e1456f5c55\" class=\"blkBorder img-share pf-large-image flex-width pf-size-full blockImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/17\/67507961-11731831-image-a-4_1675964560302.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/17\/67507961-11731831-image-a-4_1675964560302.jpg\" data-pf_style_display=\"inline\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\" data-pf_rect_width=\"634\" data-pf_rect_height=\"820\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<p id=\"\" class=\"added-to-list1\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-701dfd2cc8c65d93\" class=\"blkBorder img-share pf-large-image flex-width pf-size-full blockImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/13\/15\/67507947-11731831-Thomas_Sullivan_a_former_director_in_the_enforcement_division_at-a-1_1676302081496.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"Thomas Sullivan, a former director in the enforcement division at the Treasury Department, interviewed Jim at his home in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, on July 16 2017, according to Sullivan's affidavit\" width=\"634\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/13\/15\/67507947-11731831-Thomas_Sullivan_a_former_director_in_the_enforcement_division_at-a-1_1676302081496.jpg\" data-pf_style_display=\"inline\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\" data-pf_rect_width=\"784\" data-pf_rect_height=\"36\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<p id=\"\" class=\"added-to-list1\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Thomas Sullivan, a former director in the enforcement division at the Treasury Department, interviewed Jim at his home in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, on July 16 2017, according to Sullivan&#8217;s affidavit<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group artSplitter\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">Sullivan added that he had a brief exchange with Jim&#8217;s attorney wife Sara, who told him &#8216;he doesn&#8217;t like us talking to people&#8217;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">The Republican-led congress has promised an exhaustive investigation into influence peddling by members of Biden&#8217;s family, including son Hunter<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">The lawyer claimed that Jim later &#8216;admitted that KSA and Hill had secretly agreed to settle the claim through the award of future contracts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">&#8216;Mr. Biden further confirmed that Richter used Biden as a settlement intermediary in order to capitalize on the influence and orchestration of the settlement by the then Vice-President,&#8217; Lankford wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">The lawyers hired an investigator to question Jim and his wife about the alleged back-door deal, and they allegedly obtained some shocking admissions from the President&#8217;s brother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Sullivan interviewed Jim at his home in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, on July 16, 2017, according to Sullivan&#8217;s affidavit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">&#8216;I asked Mr. Biden to describe his position with Hill International,&#8217; the former Treasury official wrote. &#8216;He said that he had been hired to do &#8220;business development&#8221; work for them and that Saudi Arabia was a country that Hill had him assigned to assist with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">&#8216;James stated that he was told that the final payment would be made in both cash and &#8220;a very large amount&#8221; of new future contract work.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">The affidavit does not specify who &#8216;he&#8217; refers to, but a source briefed on the case told DailyMail.com that it was Joe Biden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">&#8216;I didn&#8217;t ask for a further explanation since I was looking at two large men in dark suits, in a big black sedan parked on a side street looking directly into their house down the walkway I had just exited,&#8217; Sullivan wrote. &#8216;I thought they were some type of security, probably Secret Service.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Joe Biden&#8217;s family were not entitled to Secret Service protection at the time, as he had ended his term as Vice President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">&#8216;Sara and I walked to my car. She told me that her husband and his brother were very close, and that they told each other everything. I reached inside to give her a card, and just as I did, a blue sedan, with a single male driving, pulled quickly into their driveway. She said &#8216;See what I mean?&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Sullivan told DailyMail.com that he was not authorized to comment further.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">&#8216;He stated that he was often sent to meetings to represent Hill because &#8216;of course, the name didn&#8217;t hurt,&#8217; and he was the former Vice-President&#8217;s brother, or words to that effect<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group mol-hidden-caption\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-a007f9e12b9f1327\" class=\"blkBorder img-share pf-large-image flex-width pf-size-full blockImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/14\/15\/67507953-11731831-image-a-58_1676387707311.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/14\/15\/67507953-11731831-image-a-58_1676387707311.jpg\" data-pf_style_display=\"inline\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\" data-pf_rect_width=\"634\" data-pf_rect_height=\"828\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<p id=\"\" class=\"added-to-list1\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group mol-hidden-caption\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-96d3ea08cf1809c8\" class=\"blkBorder img-share pf-large-image flex-width pf-size-full blockImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/14\/19\/67507957-11731831-image-a-5_1676402023879.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/14\/19\/67507957-11731831-image-a-5_1676402023879.jpg\" data-pf_style_display=\"inline\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\" data-pf_rect_width=\"634\" data-pf_rect_height=\"828\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<p id=\"\" class=\"added-to-list1\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-6b2223dd139e289d\" class=\"blkBorder img-share pf-large-image flex-width pf-size-full blockImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/17\/67507949-11731831-image-a-14_1675965352771.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"Lankford described the alleged double-cross in the May 2022 affidavit\" width=\"634\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/17\/67507949-11731831-image-a-14_1675965352771.jpg\" data-pf_style_display=\"inline\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\" data-pf_rect_width=\"467.5625\" data-pf_rect_height=\"18\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<p id=\"\" class=\"added-to-list1\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Lankford described the alleged double-cross in the May 2022 affidavit<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Lankford and the other attorneys involved did not respond to requests for comment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Jim Biden and his wife were also intimately involved in\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11361141\/Hunter-Biden-uncle-pocketed-huge-sums-11M-venture-Chinese-oil-giant-docs-show.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-pf_style_display=\"inline\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Hunter Biden&#8217;s multi-million-dollar deal with Chinese government-linked oil giant CEFC<\/span><\/a><span class=\"text-node\">\u00a0\u2013 a deal which is currently under investigation by federal prosecutors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Joe Biden has denied knowledge of his family&#8217;s foreign business dealings, but the revealing comments by Jim and his wife in the 2021 affidavit could cast doubt on those claims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">When reached, Sara Biden declined to comment and Jim Biden did not respond to comment requests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">A source close to the case told DailyMail.com that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has a copy of the affidavits and other case files, and is investigating them as part of his committee\u2019s probe into the Biden family\u2019s business dealings.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group floatRHS\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">Hill&#8217;s CEO Irvin Richter &#8216;confided that he selected Biden because KSA [the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia] would not dare stiff the brother of the Vice-President who would be instrumental to the deal&#8217;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">The Republican-led congress has promised an exhaustive investigation into influence-peddling by members of Biden&#8217;s family, including Hunter and Jim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Jim has previously been scrutinized for his links to Hill International.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">The company&#8217;s housing subsidiary, HillStone International, hired Jim as an executive vice president in late 2010, and Jim took a minority ownership stake in the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Six months later it won a $1.5billion deal to build at least 100,000 affordable homes in Iraq, in part thanks to the Obama State Department. Joe Biden was Obama&#8217;s point man on Iraq at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Richter told the New York Post in 2012 that Jim&#8217;s familial connection played no part in landing the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">However, Richter&#8217;s son David Richter, who later became President of Hill International, told a private meeting of investors in 2015 that it helped to have &#8216;the brother of the vice president as a partner&#8217;, according to a Fox News report the following year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1 pf-delete\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">Despite Jim&#8217;s lack of experience in the construction industry, Hill CEO Irv Richter called him a &#8216;good salesman&#8217;, while their website trumpeted his &#8217;40 years of experience dealing with principals in business, political, legal and financial circles across the nation and internationally.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">The deal later fell apart when the Iraqi government failed to provide financing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">In 2020, David denied having any ties to Jim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">&#8216;I have no ties to the Bidens. Jim Biden worked at a Hill subsidiary for a couple of years. That subsidiary did not report to me. I was not in favor of investing in that company,&#8217; he told the New Jersey Globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font added-to-list1\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><span class=\"text-node\">&#8216;After several years of failure, it was shut down at my insistence, and I&#8217;ve never seen or heard from Jim Biden since.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"reader-comments\" class=\"article-reader-comments article-id-11731831\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why all of a sudden this comes out now? The demoncrap PTB are stabbing SloJoe in the back to so he can be forced to not run for re-election. so Goobernor Newsome can. 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