FBI Secretly Recorded Joe Biden’s Brother As Part Of Bribery Probe: REPORT

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) secretly recorded conversations featuring President Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden, as part of a bribery probe into a Mississippi attorney who once paid $100,000 to James Biden’s consulting firm, according to a new report.

The FBI taped James Biden during a bribery investigation of Mississippi trial attorney Richard Scruggs who paid James Biden’s Lion Hall group $100,000 in 1998 to help obtain his brother’s support for tobacco-related legislation under consideration by Congress, the Washington Post first reported Saturday.

“I probably wouldn’t have hired him if he wasn’t the senator’s brother,” Scruggs told the Washington Post. Then-Delaware Democratic Sen. Joe Biden ended up supporting the tobacco legislation that ultimately failed to pass.