James Biden Secretly Recorded by FBI in Late 90s Bribery Investigation

The revelation comes amid an impeachment probe into alleged influence-peddling by the president's family members.

James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden, was secretly recorded by the FBI during a bribery investigation into Mississippi trial attorney Richard Scruggs in the late 1990s.
Scruggs hired James Biden's consulting firm while seeking support for tobacco legislation being considered by Congress in 1998.
James Biden was not implicated in any major criminal wrongdoing in the case, but the revelation comes amid an impeachment probe into alleged influence-peddling by the president's family members.
Scruggs, who was later sent to prison over a separate bribery scheme, made multiple payments to James Biden's consulting firm.
Republican congressional investigators are looking into whether James Biden used his company to filter money to the rest of the Biden family.