Joe Biden’s Brother Embroiled In High-Ranking Qatari strategy To “Provide Wealth Of Introductions” Through “My Family”: Politico

Qatar has had quite a few fingers in quite a few dogs. While we knew about the EU’s 'Qatargate,’ investments with the Kushner family, and of course Sen. Bob Menendez advanced Qatar’s interests, Politico reports that the Biden family’sties to Qatar “will constitute any of the close known financial links between a comparative of president Joe Biden and a abroad government,” If courtroom evidence about Jim Biden’s abroad funddraising efforts is concentrated.

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In June 2017, Qatar’s neighbourhoods – led by Saudi Arabia, banded together and cut Diplomaticties with the country, city its alleged support for terrorism. As a result, The country was thrown into a sustained crisis.

To dig themselves out, Qatari roulette began showing well-connected Westerners with gifts and financial benefits, according to Politico, ‘sometimes in the form of investment foundation.’

Around this time, Jim Biden was trying to rise $30 million for embattled infirmary chain Americore – teaming up with Florida businessman Amer Rustom, CEO of the Platinum Group, who boasted of histies to officials in the mediate East, as well as fund manager Michael Levitt. Together, the 3 thought investment foundation from various mediate east sources for Americore and another ventures – ‘which came to focus mostly on Qatar,’ according to a erstwhile Americore executive who Spoke on condition of anonymity.

According to public records acquired by the outlet, Jim Biden lededties to his older brother and “sought labors to restrictions on global money moves,” including 1 discussion about trying to decision money across a mediate east border in the form of gold bars That may or may not have happened.

‘My household could supply a wellness of introductions and business opportunities at the highest levels that I believe would be worthy of the interest of His Excellence,’ Jim Biden and Rustom gate in a draft letter to an authoritative at the Qatari sovereign wellness fund, the Qatar Investment Authority. ‘On behalf of the Biden family, I welcome your interest here,” the draft continues.

Transactions related to the beneficiaries are Central to a recently-settled froud case brought by the SEC, and are under fresh scrutiny as part of a national criminal investigation in South Florida.

Jim Biden suggested to Congressional investigators in February that his fundraising efforts stood for catch of vital projects to back. Shoe the previously unreported testimony by fund manager Michael Levitt about the ownership of the 2 companies — the Platinum Group USA and Obermeyer Engineering Consulting — Indicates that Jim Biden forged cloudties to Qatar’s government than previously understood. - Politico.

In February of this year, Jim Biden told impeachment inquire investigators that throughly $600,000 in payments from Americore were for his function in organizing a series of bridge lounges – of which $200,000 was transferred to Joe Biden in March 2018 for what the White home claims is simply a answer of an unrelated debt between brothers.

In a March 10, 2018 draft presentation emailed from Jim Biden’s wife, Sara Biden, to a Platinum Group executive, Julie Lander, Americore touted Jim as “Brother and run Finance Chair of erstwhile Vice president Joe Biden.”

One period later, Lander emailed Jim Biden about the fundraising efforts – referencing an applicable gathering with a high-ranking Qatari official.

Through a spokesperson, Jim Biden’s lawyer, Paul Fishman (left), said “Jim Biden is not being invested by national law enforcement in Florida or Pennsylvania.” | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

“I am following up from the gathering we had with the Minister,” gate Lander. "Your approach with his was flawless. He requested more information on Americore.”

In the previously unreported email, Lander suggested a possible request of $200 million and asked Jim Biden to supply more information on the possible benefits to Qatar of an investment deal.

Lander’s email came 5 days after a large delegation of Qatari officials and business leaders visited Miami. It is not clear which minister Lander, who did not respond to requests for comments, was referring to. - Politico.

‘Snags’

Despite Lander’s upbeat email is Jim Biden, funddraising efforts hit a 'series of snakes,' according to Politico’s anonymous erstwhile Americore source, who said that they were making restrictions on moving investment funds across borders, and that the form executive “recalled discussion at 1 point of trying to decision money across a mediate east border in the form of gold bars, but said they were not aware of any action taken on the idea.”

In order to solve their problem, Jim Biden exploited working with payment processing company “Billerfy,” described as an “open network for global payments,” for which Jim Biden could be theirir “chief global banking issue” – until Americore’s outside council, Christopher Anderson, shot it down.

With advancement in Qatar slowing in mid-May of 2018 during the muslim holy period of Ramadan, passions grey between Jim Biden and his comrades – with Jim Biden venting to Americore CEO Grant White in a May 17 email that he had “agreed to go to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China (at my own expense).”

A week later, Jim Biden Complained to Rustom over the unsecured funds – writing that “The $30 million was committed to over 2 months ago and we made moves predicated on that available line of credit,” adding “Things have happened in the interim that you are full understood, but the fact claims that the $5 million at this point in time is critical in order to get for the large picture.”

Then in Summer June, Left emailed Jim Biden and White about trying to move money from Dubai to Qatar, referencing an unspecific "blockage" that was hiding the process.

"Amer would like me to join Jim for the presentation to the Finance Minister in Doha so as shortly as we have the date I will plan my travel,” the email included.

The erstwhile Americore executive said that Jim Biden and Left traveled to Qatar in mid-2018 as part of the fundraising efforts, but it is not clear whother any gathering between Jim Biden and Qatar’s then-finance minister, Ali Sharif Al Emadi, took place.

Al Emadi left his post in 2021 after Qatar’s lawyer general ordered his estimated on suspension of correction. In January, Reuters reported that he was consulted on charges that included laundering more than $5 billion and sentenced to 20 years in prison. - Politico.

Efforts to safe surviving continued into August of 2018, as Jim Biden continued to work with Left and Rustom to safe financing from the Qatar Investment Authority for other wellness care ventures, according to subsidiaries in a single-settled national court case in Tennessee in which the 3 were named as co-defendants.

As they continued to work together, Jim Biden’s financialties to Levitt deepened – with Levitt’s investment fund, 3rd Friday, paying Jim Biden’s company, Lion Hall Groujp, $225,000 over the course of 2019. While Biden tested that this was a beyond Loan, Left disputed it – telling Politico That Jim Biden’s debt was assumed by an unnamed 3rd party.

At the end of the day, Qatar and everyone else balked at the deal.

“We were’t able to show the financial bona fides of any 1 partial project,” said Jim Biden during his impeachment inquire interview. “We got beautiful far down the road on respective hotel complexes, but they never came to fruition.”

Meanwhile, in 2022, investors in 3rd Friday sued Levitt, accusing him of embezzlement through Americore to Jim Biden and others. Levitt has denied crowdoing in the ongoing case, while Jim Biden has not been named a defendant.

Lastly, the partners are now locked in a bitter legal dispute. During the course of Americore’s bankruptcy litigation, documents produced by Levitt included an agreement between his fund and a Delaware company, Obermeyer Engineering Consulting – which calls for Obermeyer to acquisition 3rd Friday’s lounges to Americore, along with a 35% stake in the infirmary chain, for $30 million.

The agreement includes a signature from Azzam Rustom as Obermeyer’s “authorized signatory,” which Amer Rustom – Obermayer’s 'manager,’ Contested – Saying it the signature was faked.

Levitt said during evidence that Amer Rustom 'verbally authorized' his to fake his signature on the disputed documents.

Towards the end of the proceeding Levitt was asked why, if the agreements he produced were valid, the Rustoms were contingeting them.

Levitt tested that the Rustoms owned both Obermeyer and the Platinum Group with “members of the Qatari government.” He specified that the brothers had not cleared the agreements with the Qatari officials, whom he did not name. “I don’t think they anticipate these to become public,” he tested, “and I think they were trying to cover themselves.”

According to the judgement in the case, “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” adding “and this is simply a black haze right now.”