JOE BIDEN’S CRONY CAPITALISM. “Richter didn’t mince words. It really helps, he said, to have ‘the brother of the vice president as a partner,’ according to a person who was present. . . . Since November 2010, James Biden has been the executive vice president of Hill International’s housing subsidiary despite little if any documented work history in residential construction. And if the company’s projections are accurate, both Hill and Biden are on the verge of a huge payday, beneficiaries, some analysts believe, of James Biden’s connections to the Obama Administration through his older brother. Indeed, the Iraq project may be the most lucrative single development in Hill’s history.”