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Prosecutors Accuse Jim Biden Associate Of Defrauding Medicare

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Prosecutors said a business associate of President Biden's brother Jim conspired to defraud Medicare alongside an alleged leader of the Colombo crime family. The government’s accusation is likely to intensify scrutiny of the ties between Jim Biden and the associate, Mississippi businessman Keaton Langston, Politico reports. The Justice Department named Langston as a co-conspirator in the ongoing fraud case three weeks after congressional investigators grilled Jim Biden about his relationship with the Mississippi businessman. In the course of a previous prosecution, the Justice Department identified a defendant in the fraud case, Florida businessman Thomas Farese, as a high-ranking member of the Colombo crime family. Jim Biden accompanied Langston, the son of a longtime friend, at a 2017 meeting at which they pitched the services of Langston’s medical lab testing business to a hospital chain.


The hospital chain, Americore, has become a focus of the impeachment inquiry led by House Republicans that is probing potential links between the president and his relatives’ business dealings. Though the government has identified Langston as a co-conspirator, he has not been named as a defendant in the case. A Politico investigation found that Jim Biden leveraged his brother’s name to promote Americore and that his involvement with the hospital chain began with the 2017 meeting, which also included Langston’s father, Joey Langston.

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