EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's brother wriggles out of $1M he owes to car crash victim's family by having just $29 in his bank account - despite life of luxury as a law firm's frontman

Joe Biden's brother wriggled out of paying some of the $1 million in compensation he owes the family of a young father killed in a horrific car crash more than 20 years ago - after creditors found just $29.16 in his bank account, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Frank Biden has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from a series of executive positions he's held at firms that appear to trade heavily on his family name - and is currently the pitchman for a large Florida law firm.

He also lives with partner Mindy in a smart $600,000 four-bed, four bath house in a gated community overlooking a golf course in upmarket Atlantis, Florida and the couple drive contrasting $40,000 black and white Range Rovers.

But when attorney John F. Hayter, representing the family of single dad Michael Albano who died tragically in 1999 leaving two orphaned daughters behind, garnished Biden's Wells Fargo bank account in February, he found it almost empty.

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Joe Biden's brother Frank owes the family of Michael Albano $1 million, stemming from a car crash in 1999 where the single father died. The 66-year-old hasn't paid the family a cent, despite earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from a series of executive positions he's held at firms that appear to trade heavily on his family name. Pictured: Frank with his older brother Joe Biden and his partner Mindy Ward in 2017

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Biden, then 43, was riding shotgun when he shifted the 290hp car into manual and told the driver to 'punch it,' just before hitting Albano. Biden was allegedly heard saying 'keep driving' and Turton fled the scene, telling police someone advised him to, while another passenger in the car said 'everyone was drinking'. 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. The orphaned daughters of Albano, Lorraina and Nicole, pleaded more than a decade ago with Joe Biden – then a senator - for help recovering the money from his brother to no avail

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When an attorney for the Albano family garnished Biden's Wells Fargo bank account in February, he found it just had $29.16 (pictured)

In February Hayter also placed a lien on Biden's white 2014 Supercharged Range Rover.

Biden, 66, hasn't paid a cent of the cash he owes the Albano family despite him having defaulted on a lawsuit filed against him for the death.

However, there's light at the end of the tunnel for the Albanos as DailyMail.com can reveal that the businessman has finally made contact with the family's lawyer.

It's the first time scofflaw Biden has made any contact with the Albanos - albeit through an attorney - having actively ignored repeated court orders and written requests to pay up over the past 20 years.

A detailed DailyMail.com exposé on February 6 revealing the full details of Biden's shocking secret did nothing to stir him.

And lawyers for the Albano family served legal papers to 16 business associates of Biden at various companies he's linked to after registering the California case in Florida on November 19, last year.

But not a single associate of his responded to the court's order – not even the Berman Law Group, which continues to feature Biden as a Senior Advisor to the firm on its website.

Sources close to the case, however, say an attorney for Biden has finally reached out on his behalf after the businessman was served with First Interrogatories in Aid of Execution documents on April 15.

Frontman: Frank Biden features on ads for the Berman Law Group - but had only $29 in his account when lawyers tried to garnish his wages

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Biden, 66, hasn't paid a cent of the cash he owes the Albano family despite him having defaulted on a lawsuit filed against him for the death. He drives a $40,000 black Range Rover (pictured in January)

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He also lives with partner Mindy in a smart $600,000 four-bed, four bath house in a gated community overlooking a golf course in upmarket Atlantis, Florida (pictured) 

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In February Hayter also placed a lien on Biden's white 2014 Supercharged Range Rover (pictured)

The court docs were the first step in compelling Biden to subject to a debtor's examination, which would drag him before the court to testify as to his full income and assets.

Instead it's understood Biden - who has seemingly been backed into a corner - now appears willing to discuss the repayment of the $1 million he owes.

When DailyMail.com approached Frank about the case, he would only say: 'We're heading towards settlement, it's that simple.'

He refused to comment any further directing any inquiries to brother Joe Biden's campaign.

Albano died when he was crossing the road on Highway 101 in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, beside Encinitas, California, when a high-powered Jaguar XK8 convertible (pictured) rented by Biden hit him at as much as 80mph. The speed limit was 35mph

Biden, the younger brother of presidential hopeful Joe, was found partially legally responsible for the death of Michael Albano in August 1999 but has never acknowledged his liability or paid any compensation - not even turning up for a single court hearing, meaning the case was a default judgment.

Albano died when he was crossing the road on Highway 101 in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, beside Encinitas, California, when a high-powered Jaguar XK8 convertible rented by Biden hit him at as much as 80mph. The speed limit was 35mph.

Biden, then 43, was riding shotgun when he shifted the 290hp car into manual and told the driver, Jason Turton, 25, to 'punch it,' just before hitting Albano.

Biden was allegedly heard saying 'keep driving' and Turton fled the scene, telling police someone advised him to, while another passenger in the car said 'everyone was drinking'.

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.

The orphaned daughters of Albano, Lorraina and Nicole, pleaded more than a decade ago with Democratic presidential front runner Joe Biden – then a senator - for help recovering the money from his brother to no avail.

He told them he had 'deep sympathy' but his brother was penniless. 

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These days Frank describes himself as a senior adviser to his brother's political action committee and the businessman appears to have a finger in lots of different pies

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The orphaned daughters of Albano, Lorraina (left) and Nicole, (right)  pleaded more than a decade ago with Democratic presidential front runner Joe Biden – then a senator - for help recovering the money from his brother to no avail

These days Frank describes himself as a senior adviser to his brother's political action committee and the businessman appears to have a finger in lots of different pies.

Biden lives with partner Mindy Ward, 47, a former Hooters waitress who works at CHG Healthcare in Boca Raton.

Ward was seen in January driving Biden's white Range Rover which displayed a 'BIDEN PRESIDENT 2020' sticker on the rear window before being later removed.

At the time Biden was seen driving a black $40,000 2.0 liter Range Rover Evoque which is registered in Ward's name.

According to court papers, in February The Florida Department of Motor Vehicles was directed by the court to issue a new title for the high end white Range Rover showing a lien, which means the vehicle can't be sold.

For our story in February, Albano's family told DailyMail.com that Biden must face justice after never offering so much as an apology during the last 20 years.

'Frank needs to pay for what he's done,' the dead man's daughter Lorraina told DailyMail.com. She was 17 when she lost her father, while her sister Nicole was 16. 'It's been 20 years, but we aren't holding our breath.

'It's been draining, emotionally and physically, we've never received a dime from Frank, let alone an apology.

'There isn't a day that goes by that I don't miss my father and think of what could have been.'