by Frank Holmes, reporter
Although President Joe Biden has run his alleged influence-peddling-and-bribery operation primarily through his son, Hunter, in recent years, critics say the Biden family is involved in so much corruption that the president outsourced much of it to his in-laws.
Meet Sara Catherine Jones Biden. If you don’t know the name yet, congressional Republicans hope that will soon change.
The most important thing to know about her is that she’s the one who actually paid 10% to the Big Guy.
The 64-year-old lawyer married Joe Biden’s younger brother, James Biden, in 1995. They’ve taken extravagant trips all over the world together, at it appears it was paid for by money squeezed out of their famous relative’s name.
But if the GOP has its way, their next trip may be to prison.
As The Horn News has reported, Jim Biden allegedly cashed in on his brother’s status beginning the moment Joe Biden became a senator in the 1970s.
Sara Jones was a lawyer from Owensboro, Kentucky, who met James Biden after she took a committee job with then-Sen. Wendell Ford, D-Ky.
In 1987, Jim Biden decided to cut his new love interest into the deal. That year, the Bidens formed Lion Hall Group together with Joe Biden’s former law partner, David Walsh.
The money flowed in; so far, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee said it has traced millions of dollars… and some of it went to Joe Biden.
These Bidens, it seems, were always on the grift.
In 2000, Jim Biden talked a Philadelphia attorney named Leonard Barrack into hiring Sara Biden at the ritzy law firm of Barrack, Rodos & Bacine — for a cool $300,000 a year.
“Jim Biden assured Barrack that he would be able to generate business for the Barrack Law Firm through his family name and his resemblance to his brother, United States Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware,” said a 2004 lawsuit filed in Philadelphia.
The fact that there’s a lawsuit tells you how that went.
Instead of serving her employer, Sara Biden used the position to field business opportunities for Lion Hall. She also spent $250,000 of the firm’s funds on “lavish” travel. “The Bidens never intended to generate business opportunities for the Barrack Law Firm during their travels, using the trips instead for personal pleasure and to develop opportunities for Lion Hall,” said the lawsuit.
Before he caught on, Barrack gave Sara Biden $300,000 in loans in three years.
At the same time, the Bidens got another boost: In 2000, Northpoint Communications asked Sara and Hunter Biden to join its board. The group hoped to get a contract providing digital services from the federal government… and they wanted the Biden family.
At the time, Hunter Biden had a conflict of interest as a Clinton administration appointee. And for some reason, Sara didn’t list her name as a lobbyist for the company, which went belly-up just one year later.
As the money poured in, it ran out just as fast. The Bidens loved living the high life, with big houses, fancy trips, and the best diamonds and jewelry.
Sara and Jim Biden bought a $2.5 million “Biden Bungalow” in Naples, Florida… but soon, the power couple owed $700,000 in taxes and to vendors.
Then, over several years, they got loans in the amount of almost $1 million ($900,000) from “1018 PL, LLC.”
1018 PL, LLC was controlled by John Hynansky, a millionaire Delaware car dealer and supporter of Joe Biden.
At the same time Hynansky was cutting check to Biden’s sister-in-law, Hynansky won a plumb prize: A government agency, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), gave Hynansky loans to build a Porsche dealership… in Ukraine.
“The story about a Biden donor getting a nice loan to build a Porsche dealership outside of Kyiv (1) while Biden was point person on Ukraine and (2) after he loaned the Bidens $900K is pretty interesting,” said The Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway.
The story about a Biden donor getting a nice loan to build a Porsche dealership outside of Kyiv (1) while Biden was point person on Ukraine and (2) after he loaned the Bidens $900K is pretty interesting. https://t.co/1n2Qpq307A
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 14, 2023
Of course, the big difference is Hynansky loaned the Bidens his own money; Biden loaned Hyansky your money.
Sara Biden’s biggest role came shortly after Biden left office as vice president… and it involved the sweetheart deal Hunter worked out with CEFC China Energy.
“On Aug. 14, 2017, Hunter Biden wired $150,000 to Lion Hall after receiving $400,000 from a joint account he held with CEFC. On Aug. 28, 2017, Sara Biden withdrew $50,000 in cash from Lion Hall’s account.,” explains investigative journalist Paul Sperry at Real Clear Investigations. “Later the same day, she deposited it into her and Jim Biden’s personal checking account, according to bank records subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee.:
Just a few days later, on September 3, Sara Biden “wrote a check to Joe Biden for $40,000 for a ‘loan repayment,’ exactly 10% of the $400,000 – matching a ‘10 (percent) held by H for the big guy.’”
Joe Biden was involved in their efforts throughout his time as Barack Obama’s veep.
As vice president, Biden wrote Lion Hall a total of 3,735 emails, according to a Freedom of Information Act request from America First Legal.
Even foreigners realize something is amiss here. “Read this carefully and tell me there is nothing fishy about the Biden’s, including Joe!” said Martin Suter, a U.S.-based writer for Swiss media outlets.
Read this carefully and tell me there is nothing fishy about the Biden’s, including Joe! Who Is Sara Biden? Joe’s In-Law Emerges as Central Figure in Foreign Cash Deals https://t.co/wlsprlIm9Q
— Martin Suter (@martinnyc) December 18, 2023
Tracing Joe Biden’s decades of crooked deals has helped us get to know Hunter Biden; Hunter’s sister-in-law-turned-lover, Hallie Biden; Joe’s brothers, Jim and Frank Biden.
Congressional investigators want to get to know Sara—by questioning her under oath…and she won’t be able to dodge questions, rely on her team of lawyers, or call in her brother-in-law for political leverage.
The GOP has the leverage, and they may just that lever to force Joe Biden back into the Biden Bungalow… or into the federal pen.
Sara Biden may just be the end of the line for the Biden family enterprise.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”