Here's how Joe Biden, his younger brother Frank, a lobbyist and an oil heiress got Congress to ban the slaughter of horses for meat
At the time, according to public disclosures, Frank Biden was also a lobbyist,in Florida to lobby the state legislature on behalf of Mavericks in Education, a chain of for-profit charter schools of which he was president.
Abruzzo said he generally did not take take pro-charter school stances in the legislature and that he did not recall the April 9 meeting taking place. Frank Biden also said he did not recall the April 9 meeting ever taking place. “But,” he added. “I’ve been in Joey's office a hundred times. He's like family."
The summit included a lengthy talk by McCullough describing the legislative process. "We inserted this into the Omnibus privately, secretly, basically, under the radar so opposition wasn't there,” McCullough explained in her, but said that even after getting the measure through committee, it still faced hurdles in the Senate.
Just before the meeting, she said, Biden told her, “This going to take just a few minutes. This is a very good man. We've differed our whole careers, but we have a friendship and a respect for each other, and we've had 27 years in the Senate together.” “In the Senate committee, that was a little bit trickier, and Victoria met personally one-on-one with Debbie Wasserman Schultz late at night the evening before the vote came up, and she sat down with with our chair and worked out a strategy of contacting members,” he said. “I turned also to Frank and said, ‘We may need a little help from the vice president and the administration talking to some senators.
But now, Abruzzo and Frank Biden are contradicting their videotaped remarks. Abruzzo now says he never asked Frank Biden for help enlisting the vice president’s support, and that he merely sought Frank Biden’s advice on how best to promote the measure. But in a follow-up phone call later the same day, Frank Biden revised his account, saying he did advise Abruzzo on the measure before it passed Congress. At first, he said he did not know how the measure became law. "I don’t even know whether it was through Congress or not through Congress,” he said of the measure. He added, “You’re not going to catch me on a date and a time.”
Initially, McCullough said that after the measure passed, she hired Frank Biden to work for Chesapeake Petroleum from 2015 to 2017 for help navigating the federal bureaucracy. At the time, she was exploring the possibility of becoming a government contractor. "The Bidens were very important and very helpful, and I needed someone that knew the agencies as well as he did,” she said, citing Frank Biden’s legislative affairs work during the Clinton administration. "He was very trusted.
"I never worked for Victoria, period, end of story," Frank Biden said, indicating that he would have his bankers at Wells Fargo send over financial statements to corroborate his version of events. As of press time, no statements had arrived.Over the past decade, Frank Biden has devoted his time to politically tinged business ventures.
Debra Robinson, the lone school board member to vote against reversing the denial, attributed the board’s decision to Frank Biden’s influence. "Because people have big dogs that lobby for 'em, we are able to see better?" she told the Miami New Times. "No. I see it as an exception to the rules."
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