The Biden family rap sheet: How Joe's relatives have been busted for drug possession, credit card theft, fights with the NYPD and multiple DUIs - but have never served time
* Caroline Biden, 33, was arrested last August for driving under the influence and driving without a license in
Philadelphia suburb, according to a report
* In 2018, she was sentenced to two years probation by a Manhattan court for using a credit card to buy more than
$100,000 worth of beauty products
* In 2013, Caroline Biden, the daughter of Joe Biden's younger brother, James, was arrested for fighting her roommate
after she was asked to pay rent
* Despite lengthy history of run-ins with the law, no member of the Biden family has served time in prison
* Frank Biden, Joe Biden's youngest brother, has been arrested multiple times for driving under the influence and theft
* Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley Biden, 39, was arrested when she was a freshman in college for possession of marijuana
* Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, 50, was cited for drug possession in 1988. He's also reported to be subject of
investigations into alleged money laundering
Joe Biden’s troubled niece Caroline Biden was arrested last August for driving under the influence and driving without a license in a Philadelphia suburb, it has been revealed.
It's the latest run-in with the law for a member of the extended Biden family - none of whom have served time in prison.
The 33-year-old daughter of the former vice president’s younger brother, James Biden Sr, was taken into custody last year by law enforcement officials in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, according to the New York Post.
The case, which is still active, was never made public.
In 2018, she was sentenced by Manhattan Criminal Court to two years probation after pleading guilty to taking part in a scam in which she borrowed a credit card to buy more than $110,000 worth of beauty products at Bigelow Pharmacy in Greenwich Village.
Prosecutors previously said Caroline Biden asked to borrow a credit card from a victim, who was not identified in court documents, to buy a single item for $672.
But instead Biden opened an account at Bigelow Pharmacy and spent more than $110,000 between April 2015 and June 24, 2016, buying the store's lavish products.
On May 5, 2017, police arrested her and initially charged her with grand and petit larceny.
'I not only acknowledge my conduct and take responsibility but deeply regret the harm caused,' she told the judge during sentencing in July 2018.
'I can assure you that I have made amends, full restitution, completed community service and that nothing like this will ever happen again,' Biden said.
In 2013, Caroline Biden was arrested by the New York Police Department for harassment, resisting arrest and obstruction of justice after she got into a fight with a roommate who demanded that she pay rent for living in their Tribeca apartment.
While she was taken into custody, Caroline Biden allegedly took a swing at a police officer, resulting in the obstruction charge.
During her arrest, Caroline Biden was heard telling police: 'I shouldn't be handcuffed! You don't know who you're doing this to!'
As officers removed her from a precinct after her arrest, she covered herself up in a blanket and had police wheel her out on a gurney.
Caroline Biden, who was reportedly in and out of rehab for anger management and a drug addiction, also managed to escape jail at the time when the court ordered for her charges to be dropped if she behaved for six months.
In 2009, Caroline Biden was briefly detained by Amtrak police because of a 'misunderstanding over a train fare,' an Amtrak spokeswoman told the AP at the time.
The Biden family has had a history of arrests and scandals in recent years.
When asked if Joe Biden used his position of influence to intervene on behalf of relatives who have been arrested, a campaign spokesperson told the Post: ‘No he didn’t, and this entire story is garbage.’
Biden’s daughter, Ashley Biden, 39, was arrested for possession of marijuana when she was a 17-year-old student at Tulane University.
Court records from New Orleans do not list any conviction for Ashley Biden.
The New York Post reported in 2009 that Ashley Biden was known for her hard partying during her college days.
The newspaper reported that it was offered footage shot from a hidden camera which purported to show a woman resembling Ashley Biden snorting cocaine.
In 2002, it was reported that Ashley Biden was arrested for making ‘intimidating statements’ toward a police officer after a brawl at a Chicago bar.
The charges of obstructing a police officer were dropped after she apologized in court.
Ashley Biden is the youngest of three siblings. She is the only one born to the vice president and his second wife, Jill.
Joe Biden’s first wife, Neilia, and their 13-month-old daughter, Naomi, died in a 1972 car crash.
Her two half-brothers are Beau Biden and Hunter Biden, 50.
Beau Biden, a former attorney general of Delaware, died in 2015 from brain cancer. He was 46 years old at the time of his death.
Beau Biden was survived by his wife and two children.
Joe Biden’s youngest brother, 66-year-old Frank Biden, was arrested in August 2003 when police pulled him over after he made a wide left turn in Fort Lauderdale.
According to the Miami New Times, Frank Biden’s eyes were red and his speech was slurred. Officers said he smelled of alcohol.
Police also reportedly noticed an empty bottle of Popov vodka in his car.
When police gave Frank Biden a field sobriety test, he kept losing his balance and was unable to touch his finger to his nose, according to the New Times.
Police then ran a scan of Frank Biden’s license, which revealed that it had been suspended four times up to that point.
Frank Biden was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license. He pleaded no contest, according to the New Times.
A court sentenced Frank Biden to six months of probation and an additional six months of having his license suspended.
Just two months later, before his drunk driving case was taken up in court, Frank Biden was arrested on charge of petty theft for allegedly trying to steal DVDs from Blockbuster Video.
The alleged incident took place at the now-defunct Blockbuster location in Pompano Beach, where employees began arguing with Frank Biden after they observed him stuffing his pants with two DVDs.
Frank Biden was taken into custody by a sheriff’s deputy, but he reportedly failed to show up for a court hearing in the case.
There is no available documentation on the outcome of the case.
In November 2004, Frank Biden was arrested a third time - this time by law enforcement officials in Juno Beach, Florida.
He then pleaded no contest to driving with a suspended license. Instead of the mandatory 30-day jail sentence, Frank Biden was allowed to check into a rehabilitation center in Delray Beach, where he stayed for three months.
In 2011, Frank Biden told the Miami New Times: ‘I was an alcoholic. I'm a sober person. I'm very proud of that fact.’
Before Frank Biden’s criminal troubles, he was also on the wrong end of a costly civil judgment.
In February, DailyMail.com revealed that Frank Biden was found legally responsible for the death of Michael Albano in August 1999.
Albano was killed when he was struck by a Jaguar XK8 convertible that was driven by Jason Turton, who was then 25 years old.
Frank Biden, who was in the passenger seat, shifted the 290hp car into manual and told Turton to ‘punch it.’ The vehicle reached speeds of 80mph even though the legal limit in that section of HIghway 101 in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, was 35mph.
Albano, who was crossing the highway, was struck and killed. Frank Biden is alleged to have told Turton to ‘keep driving’ and flee the scene after the collision.
Another passenger in the car is said to have told police that everyone in the vehicle was drinking.
Frank Biden fled California leaving a trail of unpaid bills and never even turned up in court when Albano's family sued him, according to court documents.
After failing to turn up for a single court hearing in the case, Frank Biden was found to be liable by way of a default judgment. He was ordered to pay the Albano family nearly $1million.
To this day, Frank Biden has not paid the family a cent. When Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware, was tapped to be Barack Obama’s running mate in 2008, the family appealed to the future vice president to get his brother to pay.
But the family was told that Frank Biden was broke.
After Joe Biden became vice president, Frank Biden reportedly earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from a series of positions that appear to trade heavily on his family name.
Frank, 66, describes himself as a senior adviser to his brother's political action committee, and lives in Florida.
Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s 50-year-old son, was arrested in 1988 for drug possession.
‘I was cited for possession of a controlled substance in Stone Harbor, NJ,’ Hunter Biden said in 2006.
‘There was a pre-trial intervention and the record was expunged.’
Last December, it was revealed that Hunter Biden was linked to several criminal investigations involving fraud, money laundering and a counterfeiting scheme.
The allegations were filed by a private-eye firm, D&A Investigations, in relation to Hunter's paternity case involving his baby mama Lunden Roberts.
They seek to lay bare his finances in an attempt to recoup child support.
Among Hunter's assets, as claimed by the documents, is a $2.5million home in the Hollywood Hills.
One of the claims involves Burisma, the Ukrainian oil company that was at the center of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
Trump came under fire for a phone call with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, urging him to investigate Hunter's work with Burisma, while withholding some $400million in military aid.
The new allegations accuse Hunter and business associates of establishing 'bank and financial accounts with Morgan Stanley … for Burisma Holdings Limited … for the money laundering scheme'.
The new allegations accuse Hunter and business associates of establishing 'bank and financial accounts with Morgan Stanley … for Burisma Holdings Limited … for the money laundering scheme'.
D&A claimed that the accounts showed a value of nearly $6.8million between March 2014 and December 2015, according to the Post.
In addition, the documents allege that Hunter and three associates attempted to con Sioux Native Americans out of $60million through the sale of tribal bonds.
It's unclear what agencies are allegedly investigating Hunter. But shortly after the allegations were filed, a judge struck them down because they were filed by an 'intervener,' according to the New York Post.
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