The budding Biden pardon scandal may extend to the Langstons of Dickie Scruggs fame. The story begins with Keaton Langston's conviction for conspiracy to commit health care fraud earlier this year.
A Justice Department press release stated:
Langston and others owned, operated, had financial interests in, or were affiliated with pharmacies, DME companies, and a laboratory that Langston and others used to defraud health care benefit programs by offering and paying kickbacks and bribes in exchange for doctors’ orders for DME, genetic cancer screening tests, and compounded medications. The pharmacies, DME companies, and laboratory submitted or caused the submission to Medicare of claims for reimbursement without regard to medical necessity, and sent a portion of the proceeds to others as payment for the doctors’ orders generated through the conspiracy. Langston and others concealed the payment of bribes, in part, by entering into sham contracts designed to make it appear that suppliers were engaged in and being paid for legitimate marketing and referral services based on the hours and expenses incurred or on a flat-rate basis.
The pharmacies, DME companies, and laboratory billed Medicare and other health care benefit programs at approximately $51 million for tests and orders that were the product of the illicit scheme. Langston received approximately $10 million from these reimbursements.
Some of the fraud included a hospital where President Biden's brother, Jim, was employed.
Langston's sentencing is set for February 3, 2025. However, help may be on the way for Joey Langston's son. Politico reported:
the Langston family’s relationship with President Joe Biden could be the difference between freedom and incarceration for one of its members....
But Keaton Langston’s case is not over yet, and an audio recording reviewed by POLITICO indicates there is more to the story.
On the recording, Keaton Langston vents about his plea negotiations and the pressures of feeling caught between his father, the Justice Department, and the president’s brother.
He says he “covered” for his father, but only after receiving some sort of assurance from a person he described as “the senator in Alabama.”
He also says he was not truthful with federal investigators about Jim Biden and describes his father’s view of his situation as: “We have a guarantee that Keaton gets a pardon.”...
Though the legal team representing Keaton in his criminal case declined to comment, his father’s lawyer said, “both Keaton and Joey deny having ever been guaranteed a pardon by anyone.”....
And as Keaton Langston awaits his sentencing, it remains to be seen whether the Biden brothers’ long history with a crew of canny Southerners will enable this small-town legal dynasty to clinch the outcome of one last case....
Though the Bidens are Catholic and the Langstons Baptist, three associates of the family said that they have heard Joey Langston, Keaton Langston or both describe the relationship between Keaton Langston and Joe Biden as “godfather” and “godson.”...
The rest of the story is looooooooong but more than well worth the read. Article Fix a drink, get out not one, but two cigars, and start reading.
29 comments:
Forget Keaton Langston's. Biden is going to give Benny Thompson a preemptive pardon after Trump said ole Benny should be in Jail! You can't make this stuff up!
Joey Langston guarantees a pardon hahahahaha
You'd have to really want to believe what he's saying in order to believe anything coming out of his mouth.
The Biden Crime Family members are titular Catholics, but solid pathological liars and crooks.
Why not pardon Joey too?
How ironic that the real abuse of law is now taking place by Biden and his pardons. Most reasonable people know the attacks, indictments, and impeachments on Trump over the past few years were purely politically motivated. That's what the election was all about. What they tried to do was wrong, so Trump should take his victory lap and trash any legacy of those kangaroo courts and clownish committees that tried to take him down.
A Who's Who of Democrats ... and that slimeball Trent Lott. Who's truly surprised?
Pardon all Federal Prisoners except killers and their co-conspirators. This will save the government billions! Then we can start over fresh! If they commit any crime again exile them.
i would like a pardon too. For any and all crimes since 2000.
Excuse me while I clutch my pearls.
A Den of Thieves-
This group gives the Corleone family a good name-
I used to say (to myself), "Surely the president is concerned about his legacy". Boy was I wrong!
Chris Epps is a lifelong democrat who has served 7 years of a 19-year federal sentence. At his sentencing, he claimed he has 'had a lot of time to reflect on the mistakes I've made'.
The president, being a kind, generous, forgiving man of faith, might bless Chris.
The relatives of Presidents always try to cash in. Elliot Roosevelt was probably the worst as he preyed on veterans who, because they were born " on the cusp" ( ie. the age groups drafted for WWII), they got reduced veterans and social security benefits. Elliot got donations from them by claiming he could get the law changed. Too many believed him. President Roosevelt couldn't control his brother, Bush couldn't control his relatives involved in the S&L debacle. Carter couldn't control his relatives making him look like a country bumpkin. Teddy Roosevelt had a helluva time trying to control Alice. And, for a brief ,sane period we all realized we had relatives we couldn't control and so didn't fall for that kind of attempt to blacken someone. We even knew we couldn't control a child who had problems. If y'all don't know an otherwise lovely , successful family with a problem relative, I think you must not have many "real" friends...just acquaintances. FYI There's no such thing as a preemptive pardon. There has to be a core charge and the pardon can be extended to prevent "get arounds". I don't care whether you are GOP or DEM, check out the facts first before buying into either parties " sky is falling" BS. As it turns out , it keeps us from paying attention when the sky is falling.
Bennie’s boy Guest and Wicker should make the pardon list as well. Minnie Pearl needs to get a cowboy hat and see if she can top Espy’s job performance as SOA.
In the article Doug Jones makes to sound like he was just stopping through Booneville.
Who just wanders through Booneville?
Sucks for the relatives not involved.
Thompson is a hunter, and he got to talking with Keaton Langston about guns. Afterwards, the younger Langston had a firearm dropped off at Thompson’s home.
But the gun was registered in Keaton Langston’s name with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, according to two Langston family associates. They said that when the bureau came calling last year to ensure the gun was properly stored, a panicked Keaton Langston scrambled to retrieve it from the congressman.
Keaton Langston’s lawyers did not respond to questions about the episode, and Joey Langston said through his attorney he did not recall encountering Thompson at the Westin in Jackson.
Thompson said that though he has long known Joey Langston — “Daddy was an old friend” — the gun-gifting episode was his only interaction with Keaton Langston. “I gave it back to him,” Thompson said, “and that was it.”
The little nephew is following in the family's footsteps.
The Biden-Langston- Dickie Scruggs- Steve Patterson connection goes back at least to the Tobacco settlement when Joe Biden was a senator & Joe’s brother was the middle man for getting tweaks in the law changed to allow the settlement to take place.
If I remember correctly, both The Fall of the House of Zeus and Kings of Tort authors stated that Trent Lott’s “sudden and very surprising resignation from the Senate” had nothing to do with his brother in law Richard “Dickie” Scruggs indictment. Let that sink in.
https://harpers.org/2007/11/trent-lotts-resignation/
11/27/07 Harper’s Magazine “Trent Lott Resignation” Excerpt:
“But Washingtonians know that whenever a politician leaves to “spend more time with his family,” there are likely to be other reasons. Sources in Mississippi law enforcement inform No Comment that FBI agents are now raiding the law office of Richard “Dickie” Scruggs in Oxford. Scruggs is the brother-in-law of Trent Lott.”
there is soooo much more to this fable. But it would take waterboarding to pry it loose
Trent gotta Lott
I’m a conservative but I’m sick and tired of rich people getting pardons! One system of justice for the rich and a 2nd system for everyone else!
6:26 PM, you’re a conservative but?
It was Democrat Joe Biden that just gave a full and unconditional pardon explicitly granting clemency for the tax and gun offenses from his criminal son’s existing cases, plus any potential federal crimes that Hunter Biden may have committed from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.
Like the mafia, Democrats use crime and chaos as a control tactic. So, Hunter Biden not paying for his crimes (again) sucks, but, the presidential pardon is an important part of our system since it can undo injustices like the government weaponization we’ve witnessed from leftist Democrats since January 20 2017.
The laws of nature will eventually take care of the Biden’s, along with the other Democrats that use crime and chaos to destroy cities like Jackson.
"Uncle Trent, for Christmas I want a pardon."
Corruption almost always wears baby blue…..
stupid Cashe (Keaton) always bragged about his wealth
If you wanna know who’s pulling the strings for Keaton, just look at his attorney.
If libtards were not wholly incapable of any modicum of self awareness, they might see how hypocritical they all really are.
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