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REVEALED: The White House HELPED Hunter Biden reach deal to keep buyers of his paintings listed for up to $500,000 confidential so they could ‘avoid’ ethics issues
By GEOFF EARLE, PUBLISHED: 11:07 EDT, 8 July 2021
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White House helped broker deal to shield the president’s son from information about who is buying his work
White House cited arrangement as part of ‘rigorous process’ on ethics
Former Office of Government Ethics director Walter Shaub called the up-to-$500k prices for his artwork ‘grotesquely inflated’
The exhibition creates a ‘risk of influence-seekers funneling money to the Biden family’, he added
Hunter will be displaying and selling his artwork in New York City this fall
His art dealer Georges Berges has valued the work at between $75K and $500K
All sales will be kept confidential, despite his alleged corruption over prior business deals in Ukraine and China
But there are still questions over how the administration and his lawyers will stop individual buyers from reaching out to Hunter or someone revealing how much one of his paintings has been purchased for.
The idea is avoid a situation where he knew who was buying his work so he might be in the position to do them a favor – although it still provides an opportunity for unidentified individuals to shovel large sums to the president’s son as he battles high living costs and legal fees.
‘The whole thing is a really bad idea,’ ethics expert Richard Painter told the Washington Post, which revealed new details of the arrangement.
‘So instead of disclosing who is paying outrageous sums for Hunter Biden’s artwork so that we could monitor whether the purchasers are gaining access to government, the WH tried to make sure we will never know who they are. That’s very disappointing,’ tweeted ethics expert Walter Shaub.
‘The idea’s that even Hunter won’t know, but the WH has outsourced government ethics to a private art dealer. We’re supposed to trust a merchant in an industry that’s fertile ground for money laundering, as well as unknown buyers who could tell Hunter or WH officials? No thanks,’ the former director of the Office of Government Ethics in the Obama administration added.
The terms have been negotiated with Hunter’s lawyer as art shows in New York and his home of L.A. approach.