Biden's daughter caught in cocaine scandal

The daughter of US Vice President Joe Biden who has been caught up in a cocaine scandal was allegedly set up by a friend for profit.

A video reportedly showing Ashley Biden, 27, snorting cocaine (which is ILLEGAL !!! ) was offered to several US media outlets by a legal firm acting on behalf of the owner of the footage.

It has since emerged that the video was filmed on a hidden camera by the man who brought the drugs to the party, RadarOnline reports.

Tom Dunlap, the lawyer representing the owner of the footage, has now dropped his client — and RadarOnline claims the unnamed man could face jail time if he is charged with entrapment.

News of the tape came to light several days ago when it was offered to the several media outlets including the New York Post, the National Enquirier and several British tabloids.

The New York Post was shown 90 seconds of the 43 minute video, which purports to show Biden snorting the drug through a red straw in front of people and shouting "shut the f*** up!".

The Post says Dunlap claimed the video — which was taken at a party in Delaware, Washington — was obtained legally and that Biden was aware she was being filmed.

The video's original price tag was A$2.8 million before being scaled back to $579,000, but the Post declined to buy the tape.

Ashley Biden is a social worker for a child-welfare agency and has been in trouble with the law before.

In 2002 she was arrested for shouting at a Chicago policeman outside a nightclub, and in 1999 she was arrested for possession of marijuana while studying at a New Orleans university.

Charges were dropped in both cases.

Joe Biden, who was elected as Vice President to Barack Obama late last year, is a vocal anti-drugs campaigner and supporter of the US's "war on drugs".

There has been no comment from the White House regarding the video.

ninemsn 1 Apr 2009

A CLASSIC example of : It's NOT what you know it's WHO you know...

A different Law for US and a different one for THEM .

Just another party whore who got caught on tape.

COCAINE IS ILLEGAL !!! and there will be NO CONSEQUENCES against her, BUT he WILL be jailed for entrapment.

She is part of the arena of the UNTOUCHABLES