James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden, is two degrees separated from two mobsters accused of Medicare fraud.
Biden associate Keaton Langston is an unindicted co-conspirator, the Department of Justice has alleged, in the case against former Colombo Family consigliere Thomas Farese and real estate developer Dominick Gatto. The two mobsters are charged in connection with a major conspiracy to defraud Medicare.
The revelation is yet another blow to the Biden Crime Family, which Godfather Joe says is as pure as Caesar’s wife despite the shady activities of son Hunter and brother Jim.
Langston and the Mob
A 33-page court filing reported in Politico explains the charges against Farese and Gatto, and revealed that Langston is “Co-Conspirator 1” in the Medicare fraud indictment from 2021:
The Indictment alleges that Farese and Gatto were in a conspiracy to defraud health care benefit programs by causing false claims to be submitted for orthotic braces, such as back, elbow, and knee braces, that were (i) not medically necessary, (ii) obtained through the payment of kickbacks and bribes making them not eligible for federal reimbursements, and (iii) not provided as represented, all with the goal of unlawfully enriching themselves and their coconspirators.
The two mobsters were principals in phony brace companies that were defrauding the government, the indictment alleges. Gatto owned two such companies, Ace and Lifelong.
“Between May 2018 and April 2019, Ace and Lifelong funneled approximately $864,432 in profits to entities controlled by Gatto and his business partners and co-conspirators, Brian Herbstman and Keaton Langston,” the filing says.
The indictment also says Langston took kickbacks from a medical equipment company owned by Farese.
DOJ called the scheme a “$65 Million nationwide conspiracy.”
In 2012, a federal sentencing memorandum fingered Farese, 79, as a Colombo Family star, who rose from soldier to capo regime to consigliere, a top advisor to the family chieftain.
Langston and Biden
Langston’s link to Biden raises the obvious question of what Biden knew about Langston’s link to the mob and whether he, Biden, was involved in similar activities in his role as a consultant to the failed Americore, a hospital chain that went bankrupt after Biden became involved in it.
Last month, Politico reported that Jim Biden used his brother’s name to promote the chain and even envisioned giving Joe an equity stake in the company.
As well, the website reported, “Jim Biden had accompanied Langston, the son of a longtime friend, at a May 2017 meeting at which they pitched the services of Langston’s medical lab testing business to a hospital chain.”
House Republicans are probing the Americore scandal as part of their impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, Politico noted.
“POLITICO also obtained emails from [Keaton’s father] Joey Langston to Jim Biden, Keaton Langston and others related to the planning of partners’ meetings of the lab services business, Fountain Health,” the website reported:
But in his interview with the congressional investigators, Jim Biden distanced himself from Keaton Langston. He said he had no role in Fountain Health and was not involved in any companies with Keaton Langston, according to a publicly released transcript.
In the interview, Jim Biden also testified about his relationship with Joey Langston. He described the elder Langston — a disbarred trial lawyer who pleaded guilty in 2008 to conspiring to bribe a judge — as a close friend and fielded questions about their financial ties.…
Following their initial contacts with Americore, both Keaton Langston — who is listed as the sole member of a Fountain Health, LLC in Mississippi’s corporate registry — and Jim Biden went on to work with the company, which at its height operated a handful of hospitals across the eastern half of the United States.
But the most notable fact in the Politico account is that the FBI raided an Americore hospital in Pennsylvania to probe Medicare fraud involving Keaton’s business partner. Though Keaton Langston was not a defendant in that case, a civil suit accused him of Medicare fraud involving the hospital. Langston denied the charge and settled the case.
Unsurprisingly, James had zero experience in the hospital business when he became a consultant for Americore, Politico reported. That fact sounds surprisingly similar to nephew Hunter’s lack of experience in the energy business when he became involved with Burisma Holdings, the energy company at the center of the Biden-Burisma influence-peddling scheme.
What Did James Biden Know?
DOJ has not accused James Biden of Medicare fraud. But the obvious question is whether he knew about Langston’s mob connection, and if he did, why he went into business with him.
Then again, given the Biden Crime Family’s global operation, which includes business with Chinese Reds, it likely wouldn’t have bothered him. And he might have viewed the Langston-Mafia link as a means to line his pockets with mob money.
