How Frank Biden leveraged his famous name for business gain
"They brought him in for his name," one critic said of Frank Biden.
By
Lucien Bruggeman
January 17, 2020, 4:08 AM
In 2009, the year Joe Biden took office as vice president, a local business executive met the politician’s younger brother, Frank, at a Starbucks in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and later asked him to become the president and front man for a fledgling charter school venture.
Frank Biden, a longtime real estate developer in the state, accepted the offer, and over the years, he touted his famous last name and prominent connections in Washington to help land the company a series of charter contracts from local officials in Florida to open charter schools, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars over a five-year period from the company in the process.
In media interviews at the time, Frank Biden was unabashed – calling his last name “a tremendous asset†because of the family’s record of “taking care of people who need help,†and telling people it brought him “automatic acceptance†as he sought government approvals for the for-profit Mavericks in Education.
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