Langston and his co-conspirators orchestrated a scheme to defraud Medicare by billing for medical equipment and services that were never delivered. This fraudulent activity spanned several years and involved multiple shell companies to launder the illicit proceeds.
The case has drawn significant attention due to Langston’s connections to James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden. Critics argue that this incident raises questions about the Biden family’s business ethics.
Langston faces substantial penalties, including prison time and hefty fines. His guilty plea may also lead to further investigations into the network of associates involved in the scheme.
This high-profile case highlights the ongoing issues of fraud within the Medicare system and the importance of stringent oversight. As the investigation continues, it remains to be seen what additional revelations may emerge regarding the Biden family’s business connections.
Editor’s Commentary: As expected, this story is getting minimal play in corporate media. It’s barely being mentioned and when it is, they’re playing it off as a nothingburger.
This is NOT a nothingburger. It’s a huge story that centers around the Biden Crime Family itself. To pretend that Langston was acting alone and neither James nor Joe Biden were involved is ludicrous. The family has demonstrated over the decades that they are neck-deep in every illicit business dealing but have established levels of separation to allow for plausible deniability. The Clinton and Bush families need to be held accountable for their actions, but the Biden family is by far the worst of the clan.
Witnesses will be trotted out before the House Oversight Committee. These witnesses will support the contention by House Republicans that the Biden Crime Family got paid for doing nothing other than dishing out political favors from then-VP Joe Biden. It will be crystal clear to anyone who’s paying attention that Joe was the product the family was selling. Hunter, James, and their cohorts offered nothing else of value in exchange for a whole lot of money from the highest bidders.
Unfortunately, this will likely bear no real fruit other than score some political points in an election year. That’s it. Neither Hunter nor James are going to jail. The man in the Oval Office will not be removed until either voters take him out in November or Barack Obama replaces him with another puppet before the election.
Conservative media will be aflutter. Corporate media will be bouncing back and forth between debunking and ignoring claims by witnesses and Committee members. Social media will trade clips of “bombshells.” But at the end of the day, nothing of substance will happen.
Such is the way in Washington DC. Depending on who’s in power at the time, Democrats will either act to destroy the nation or Republicans will talk about taking action after the upcoming election. They always delay until the next election. That’s the UniParty Swamp.
Here’s the writeup of Wednesday’s happenings generated from corporate media reports….
In a “groundbreaking” development, former business associates of Hunter Biden are set to testify publicly on Capitol Hill this Wednesday. This marks the beginning of the next phase in the impeachment inquiry against President Biden, as congressional Republicans take the lead.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is expected to open the hearing by shedding light on a year-long investigation that has unearthed no credible evidence of the Bidens providing any work product. Furthermore, investigators have not identified any legitimate value or documents to support the Bidens’ business partnerships.
Comer will emphasize that the Bidens’ work methodology deviates from traditional norms. They do not function as consultants, lawyers, or advisors; nor do they sell products, services, or skill sets. Instead, the Bidens’ primary asset is Joe Biden himself.
Comer will assert that Joe Biden has consistently taken actions to further his family’s wealth accumulation. He will describe the alleged scam as a simple one: the Bidens promise to resolve foreign partners’ issues by leveraging the U.S. government. This process has been repeated multiple times, with Joe Biden’s power being invoked, subsequently resulting in millions of dollars flowing into the Bidens’ pockets.
Tony Bobulinski, a U.S. Navy veteran, will testify publicly during a joint hearing of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees on Wednesday morning. Jason Galanis, serving a 14-year prison sentence for securities fraud, will also provide testimony, albeit virtually from a minimum-security prison in Alabama.
Democrats have invited Lev Parnas, a former associate of former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, to testify publicly as well.
Comer, in announcing the hearing earlier this month, extended an invitation to Hunter Biden to testify publicly, fulfilling the first son’s repeated requests. However, through his attorney, Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden rejected the invitation, dismissing the hearing as a “carnival side show.”
Comer also invited Hunter Biden’s former associate, Devon Archer, who is not expected to attend. Comer claims to have “called Hunter Biden’s bluff” by offering a public hearing after the committee had deposed him, as per standard procedure for all witnesses.
During Hunter Biden’s deposition last month, he maintained that his father was never involved in or benefited from his business dealings. The committee also heard testimony from James Biden, the president’s younger brother, who shared the same sentiment.
Hunter Biden did admit to putting his father on speakerphone with business associates and inviting him to business lunches. Archer had previously testified that Hunter Biden put his father on speakerphone at least 20 times with business associates.
Without Hunter and Archer, the hearing will feature Bobulinski, who worked with Hunter Biden to create SinoHawk Holdings, a joint venture with Chinese energy company CEFC. Bobulinski testified behind closed doors that he personally met with Joe Biden for more than 45 minutes in 2017.
Bobulinski also testified that Joe Biden “enabled” his son Hunter to sell access to the U.S.’s “most dangerous adversaries,” including the Chinese Communist Party, Russia, and others.
Galanis’ testimony will also focus on whether Joe Biden was involved in the businesses he worked on with Hunter Biden. Galanis, who was interviewed by congressional investigators last month, testified that Joe Biden was considering joining the board of a joint venture created by Hunter Biden and his business associates with ties to the Chinese Communist Party after he left the vice presidency.
Galanis also mentioned that the phrase “lean in” was used by Devon and Hunter Biden to signify access to Vice President Biden’s political influence.
Democrats have criticized the impeachment investigation as “hopeless,” with Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, stating that it originated from lies told by an indicted liar in close proximity to Russian agents.
It’s always the Russians.
]]>“There weren’t any,” the president’s younger brother testified, according to a just-released transcript of his Feb. 21 deposition.
Jim Biden said he needed the money for “outstanding bills that I had.”
When asked whether Joe Biden was present for meetings with Tony Bobulinski, then a business associate of his son Hunter Biden, the president’s brother answered: “That I know did not happen.”
Jim Biden also testified that the contents of reported emails didn’t change his testimony or memory about his work with a collapsed rural hospital company, Americore Holdings.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Friday released the 244-page transcript of the closed-door deposition, which is part of the impeachment inquiry into potential influence peddling by the president and his family.
The president’s brother became a key witness in the House probe after he and his wife Sara wrote a $200,000 check to Joe Biden on March 1, 2018, noting that the purpose was a “loan repayment.”
That $200,000 check was cut the same day that James Biden got a $200,000 payment from Americore Holdings.
Separately, the House committee released a copy of a $40,000 check written Sept. 3, 2017, from Jim and Sara Biden to Joe Biden that evidence shows may have been laundered through a Chinese energy company, CEFC China Energy, that Hunter Biden was involved in.
Several House members sat in on Jim Biden’s deposition, and several questioned him directly. At one point, Biden’s lawyer Paul Fishman said, “Calm down,” according to the transcript.
It isn’t clear whether the remark was directed at Fishman’s client or someone else.
“Have you ever made direct payments to your brother, Joe Biden?” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., asked the president’s brother.
“I repaid two loans that I secured from my brother,” Jim Biden replied.
Gaetz followed up by asking: “And were any documents memorialized in terms of those loans?”
Biden, 75, seemed to stumble for words in answering the question.
“Through—through,” Biden said, according to the transcript. “Actual, no, no.”
Biden testified that the two checks—although made out to Joe Biden—actually went to lawyer Mel Monzack, who oversees the president’s business income such as book royalties.
“What was the full sum of those loans?” Gaetz asked.
“One was for $200,000 and one was for $40,000,” Biden answered.
Gaetz asked: “And what was the interest rate on those loans?”
Biden responded: “There weren’t any. … Yeah. Family. Uh-huh.”
Gaetz asked why he needed the $240,000 to begin with.
“Outstanding bills that I had,” Biden answered.
A House staff investigator asked the president’s brother about a recent Politico story about Americore Holdings. The investigator read from the article during the questions.
“Did you ever speak with anybody at Americore about Joe Biden getting equity in the company?” the investigator asked.
“That is ridiculous on its face. No,” Biden answered.
The Daily Signal first reported that Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is investigating Americore Holdings, which operated in Kentucky.
The staff investigator continued, reading several references to the emails in Politico’s reporting.
The investigator began to ask: “This appears to be an email. Do you recall referencing—”
Jim Biden cut him off, saying, “No.”
“Joe Biden?”
“No.”
The investigator asked: “Does this—quoting an email—does this change any of your other answers about never involving—?”
Again cutting him off, Biden said: “No.”
He later denied that Joe Biden ever met with Bobulinski, his son’s business partner at the time. Bobulinski already had told the House committee that he met with Joe, Hunter, and Jim Biden in California.
]]>“Was Mr. Bobulinski what you would consider a business associate of you and Hunter Biden?” a House investigator asked.
“He wasn’t of mine,” Biden answered. “I had discussions with him, but there was never anything that was memorialized in terms of his involvement.”
The investigator asked: “Do you recall whether you were at the bar with Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski, and Joe Biden?”
Biden replied: “That I know did not happen. … I could have been there just with Tony Bobulinski. I could have been there with Hunter as well. But my brother was never there.”
“The question is whether Joe Biden knew about the influence peddling of his brothers and his son. If so, he actively assisted his family in acquiring millions to influence him on public policy or legislation. His family was effectively marketing time shares in a senator, a vice president and now a president,” he wrote.
“Whether or not Biden delivered, the family business corrupted the functions of government by converting offices into types of commodities. That is the case regardless of whether or not they delivered. It is akin to an extortionist taking money without any intent to follow through on threats of disclosure or use of damaging material. Even in today’s willfully blind politics, every voter should be able to agree on two simple facts.
“First, influence peddling is corruption long opposed by the government and denounced by both parties.
“Second, if the president knew that his son and uncles were using him for influence peddling, Joe Biden is also corrupt.”
Turley, the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School, noted the “Biden family legal problems continue to mount.”
He cited reports Joe Biden’s brother James was caught on an FBI audiotape in a corruption investigation, while Ashley Biden, the president’s daughter, is now also facing demands for unpaid taxes.
He noted James Biden is expected soon to testify before the House investigators looking into Biden family corruption, and that occasion may “solidify a new line of defense for the Bidens: that they are harmless grifters.”
“After years of denying influence peddling with the help of an obligating media, even some Democrats are now admitting that Hunter and his uncles have been selling influence. Biden associates confirmed that Joe Biden was the brand that they were peddling to foreign clients, who paid millions to the family,” he explained.
The James Biden affair illustrates the operations, he explained.
It happened during an investigation into lawyer Richard Scruggs, who later went to prison.
“Scruggs forked over $100,000 to James Biden when he was seeking to reinforce support for the massive tobacco legislation and Joe Biden was viewed as skeptical on what some viewed as a windfall for trial lawyers,” Turley explained.
In fact, Scruggs admitted James Biden was “hired” because he was Joe Biden’s brother.
When the tape was revealed, the Bidens immediately produced a “new defense. James Biden took the money but allegedly did nothing to land his brother.”
In fact, Biden defenders now say the Bidens took money, but their help was “illusory.”
“In other words, these corrupt figures wanted to buy influence and access, but they were just chumps fleeced by the Bidens,” he wrote. “It is a curious defense that we are not corrupt because we just ripped off dupes who were corrupt people.”
He said, however, the bottom line is that “influence peddling is a form of corruption.”
He said the case will come down to “what the president knew about his family’s influence peddling and when he knew it.”
“It is highly implausible that the president did not know about the influence peddling,” he explained.
And he pointed out Joe Biden likely already likely has lost the fight, as “roughly 70 percent of voters (including 40 percent of Democrats) believes that President Biden acted illegally or unethically, or both.”
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]]>Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) issued the bank records, consisting of more than 200 pages, on Oct. 25. The records were sent to a Delaware prosecutor investigating Hunter’s likely criminal business dealings with foreign countries. The Republican lawmakers had been investigating Hunter for almost four years now.
Grassley and Johnson also attached a letter berating U.S. Attorney David Weiss for his failure to respond to their congressional oversight requests. The lawmakers expressed concerns that maybe the federal prosecutor is holding up and not doing a complete investigation of the president’s son or the Department of Justice is hampering the inquiry.
They added that the evidence amounts to possible criminal financial activity with respect to Hunter and James, who went by the name of “Jim” when he participated in the Chinese joint venture.
An examination of the bank statements by the Daily Mail showed Hunter’s Chinese business partners transferred an amount of $10,736,413.50 to a Cathay Bank account for Hudson West III LLC, a corporation co-owned by Hunter’s company Owasco PC and a CEFC subsidiary, between September 2017 and November 2018.
As CEFC showered millions into the joint venture, Hunter and Jim withdrew the cash and paid themselves $100,000 and $65,000 monthly salaries, respectively.
The operating agreement for the Delaware-incorporated company issued by the senators stated Hunter would also get a $500,000 one-time retainer fee.
Hunter, James and the latter’s wife Sara had access to credit cards financed by CEFC to the amount of $101,098.61, which they used for big spending on Apple products, hotels and restaurants.
CEFC executive Patrick Ho paid Hunter $1 million from the company’s capital as a retainer after he hired the president’s son as his lawyer following his arrest in November 2017 on bribery and money laundering charges.
The report by the senators cited that Hunter and Jim’s companies acquired $4,968,220.01 from Hudson West.
The millions of dollars were apparently for the Bidens’ job of helping to land energy deals for CEFC worldwide, which Hunter and his family stashed away in only a year’s time. (Related: Emails indicate Joe Biden was “assisting and benefiting” from son Hunter Biden’s global business ventures.)
According to Grassley and Johnson, the documents disclosed “the Biden family’s connections to the Chinese regime and persons connected to its military and intelligence elements.”
They pointed out that CEFC was not an ordinary private corporation since it had numerous close connections to the CCP. Company chairman Ye Jianming had links to the CCP and the People’s Liberation Army. Aside from this, CEFC’s subsidiaries were full of party committees.
Ye, also the founder of CEFC, has appeared as a regular figure in the Biden family’s financial dealings with China.
Meanwhile, Gongwn Dong – another business partner of Hunter – served as a former CFO of Radiance Property Holdings, a company that has “deep connections to united front groups linked to Chinese intelligence.”
“Gongwen served as a manager/officer of Hudson West III, Hudson West IV, and Hudson West V. These are business entities associated with Hunter Biden, which shows the close business and financial relationship between the two of them,” said the two GOP senators.
Hunter had made several joint ventures with CEFC through his Hudson West businesses. These ventures, as stated by Senate investigators, served as channels of funding that were intended as ways to “move money.”
The president’s son also had a joint venture with CEFC known as Sinohawk Holdings, which involved his former business partner Tony Bobulinski.
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