Biden's Brother Caught in FBI Bribery Probe Over $100K in Payments From Trial Attorney Seeking Political Favors
• President Biden's brother James was secretly recorded by the FBI during a bribery probe into a trial attorney who paid James' consulting firm $100,000.
• The attorney, Richard Scruggs, said he likely wouldn't have hired James if he wasn't the senator's brother, hoping he could influence Joe Biden.
• Scruggs paid James' firm multiple $10,000 payments while seeking Biden's support for tobacco legislation, which Biden ultimately backed.
• The FBI recordings captured James discussing plans to create a new firm with Scruggs' partners, though that never materialized.
• Scruggs met James due to an aide's ties to Sen. John Stennis, who connected Patterson to Joe and James Biden.