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If Vice President Joe Biden was looking to break new ground as the VP, by gosh, he’s done it.
The Delaware News Journal reports that he is the first U.S. Secret Service protectee to receive rental income as a landlord for the agents who protect him.
Biden rents out a cottage at his suburban Wilmington home in Delaware to the Secret Service for $2,200 a month. So far, he’s gotten more than $13,000 and he’s eligible to get a total of $66,000 under a contract that expires in 2013.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told the paper:
“We’ve not rented from protectees before.”
This is a rental property he’s had for years, and the Service rented this at a far lower rate than any other satisfactory building around. If he didn’t rent to the Service, they would have paid far more and then Biden would have had the rent he was always getting before. See what I mean?