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2021-07-09 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Mark Steyn: $500K can get you a Renoir, Picasso, or a Hunter Biden; 'a better racket than the Clinton Foundation'

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-09 00:03|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 ...Clearly, I'm in the wrong business.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-07-09 09:19|| 2021-07-09 09:19|| Front Page Top

#2 There was a report last year about the market for art being a way to launder money.
You're seeing that in action.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-07-09 10:24|| 2021-07-09 10:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Blowing the cover off that launder scheme is why he is catching shit.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-09 15:52|| 2021-07-09 15:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Could there be a common theme:

Jeffrey Epstein’s Art World Connections: A Guide

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-09 16:04|| 2021-07-09 16:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Its the only way that 'Grass Stains with Urine, Mulch Paper' get into big galleries for six figures makes sense. Or those absolutely horrible statues and civic art projects.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-09 16:33|| 2021-07-09 16:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Of course, getting unemployable relatives cush jobs is not a new thing. Anyone catch Chelsea Clinton hosting The Nutcracker on PBS?

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Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-09 17:50|| 2021-07-09 17:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Re #1: Mike, I know what you mean. My wife is an artist - talented, but her paintings sell for about 100-250, rather than 50K.
I'm willing to bet that she is much more talented than Hunter.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-07-09 18:23|| 2021-07-09 18:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Where does she post her art?

Posted by Creasing de Medici7816 2021-07-09 18:30|| 2021-07-09 18:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Apparently NOT in the White House?

Posted by Frank G 2021-07-09 21:09|| 2021-07-09 21:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Money laundering
Influence peddling
Wide open. Not even trying to hide it.

G-d I hate these characters

Posted by Squinty Lumplump3222 2021-07-09 22:19|| 2021-07-09 22:19|| Front Page Top

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