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Hunter Biden's firm took $40M payment from Russian oligarch "to enter the American market"
Hot Air ^ | October 18, 2022 | Ed Morrisey

Posted on 10/18/2022 5:43:45 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

Did they hold back ten percent for the Big Guy?

I’m so old that I remember when the American media felt concerned about business connections between political families and Russian oligarchs. In this case, it falls to the British newspaper Daily Mail to report that the same widow of the mayor of Moscow that paid Hunter Biden a $3.5 million “consulting fee” also dropped $40 million into the coffers of Biden’s real estate company:

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Yelena Baturina wanted to “enter the American market,” her brother explained to the DM. Yelena herself was not available for comment, and neither was Hunter. This took place a couple of years before Baturina paid Hunter the $3.5 million “consulting fee” that Treasury officials flagged at the time as “suspicious.” Until yesterday, that was the only known connection between the Russian ruling elite and Hunter.

Where did the money go? Hunter’s company plowed it into office-space investment properties in Texas, Colorado, Alabama, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. The prospectus provided by the Daily Mail put the purchase price at a total of $212 million, $160 million of which came from mortgages on the properties. Hunter’s firm Rosemont came up with $15 million, far below Baturina’s ante, while still holding the general partnership of the investment group. That may not seem terribly risky in 2012 — office space was still a good investment and the pandemic was still eight years away — but it does look like an odd arrangement for an investor coming up with over 60% of the case for the venture.

The investment may well have been more aimed at Biden Inc rather than some office space, in other words.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: biden; corruption; oligarch; russia
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To: buwaya

Nice, good for you. I hope you enjoy retirement.

I’ve heard Portugal is nice and that the dollar goes a long way there.
Any input on that?


21 posted on 10/18/2022 7:04:35 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Ally

Joe Biden’s Special Assistant Sending Hunter Biden Daily Intel Briefs also means Bidens entire tax paid staff using tax paid office equipment, phones, copiers, computers.......were at Hunters disposal.

We need to see every voucher Biden submitted for reimbursement.

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Why Did Joe Biden’s Special Assistant Send Hunter Biden Daily Intel Briefs?
AND Magazine ^ | 26 Mar, 2022 | Sam Faddis
Posted on 3/29/2022, 8:15:36 AM by MtnClimber

If you have been following the saga of Hunter’s Laptop from Hell, you will know that we are now in Ph7r Joe left the White House. They were sent by a woman named Kathy Chung.

(Excerpt) Read more at andmagazine.substack.com ...

Dirty money, dirty politics, and Hunter Biden, Liz wrote:
REQUEST ALL OF BIDENS MEMOS, NOTES, SNAIL MAIL, EMAIL, CALENDAR NOTES, OFFICIAL ORDERS WRT HUNTER’S ACTIVITIES, ETC.

REQUEST communications records between BIDENS office and RELEVANT PERSONS SUCH AS OBAMA, THE CLINTONS, PELOSI, in connection with HUNTERS ACTIVITIES.

The request should seek
all calendar entries,
phone messages,
text messages,
emails,
encrypted app chats,
letter correspondence
long-distance toll records
made from relevant dates.

Office of Information Policy (OIP)
U.S. Department of Justice
441 G St, NW, 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20530
E-mail: National.FOIAPortal@usdoj.gov


22 posted on 10/18/2022 7:06:36 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES.......... GOD DISPOSES )
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

Boom. Millionaire.

No that was the goal in the 1990s, today it is billionaire.


23 posted on 10/18/2022 7:08:13 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: Timber Rattler

Biden was always on the take


24 posted on 10/18/2022 7:09:25 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Liz

Biden’s earned $15.6 million … from speaking fees.

The Clintons wink with a grin if the democrats didn’t have a nose ring in the MSM none of this would be happening sucking up when you get to go to the parties and rub a few elbows.


25 posted on 10/18/2022 7:13:03 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

Biden’s earned $15.6 million … from speaking fees......rotflmco.


26 posted on 10/18/2022 7:17:07 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES.......... GOD DISPOSES )
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To: Liz

The FBI ‘leadership’ must be really stupid... same with the 50 ‘intelligence’ thugs who signed a published letter saying Hunter’s laptop was Russian Disinformation.

Or maybe they’re all a bunch of creepy commie liars selling our their country for ______ sex.


27 posted on 10/18/2022 7:19:07 AM PDT by GOPJ (Trump EARNED his money. Democrats steal theirs from taxpayers. It's why they hate Trump.)
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To: EEGator

Yes and yes, but YMMV. We have just been a few days in Portugal over the years, so I cant go into specifics. A friend of ours just bought a flat in Lisbon. We are supposed to spend a month there, maybe next year.

Prices seem comparable to Spain, on the whole, as long as we arent talking about Madrid or Barcelona. Try Bilbao or Sevilla (lovely) or any provincial city really. There is almost no serious crime anywhere in Spain or Portugal.

Spain and Portugal are very cheap, in US terms, for a comparable high quality of life. Oddly enough, so is France, as long as you stay away from Paris. Another friend has a house in Biarritz.

Anyway, go to Portugal and see for yourself. You can generally check rentals and prices online. In Spain Idealista.com is the main listing site and it covers Portugal. What works best in Portugal I dont know.

https://www.idealista.pt/en/


28 posted on 10/18/2022 7:20:58 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Timber Rattler

If Yelena Baturina really paid Hunter Biden $40 million (!) she certainly didnt get much value from her investment. Under Joe Biden, all things Russian are bad, bad, bad!


29 posted on 10/18/2022 7:22:19 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: GOPJ

Stupid.......


30 posted on 10/18/2022 7:23:20 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES.......... GOD DISPOSES )
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To: buwaya

Thank you.


31 posted on 10/18/2022 7:23:48 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Timber Rattler

bttt


32 posted on 10/18/2022 7:25:52 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in new Socialist America.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Follow the money.
I’m sure the FBI will get right on this...


33 posted on 10/18/2022 7:26:39 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Timber Rattler

bttt


34 posted on 10/18/2022 7:28:02 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in new Socialist America.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas
Can anyone else here remember when “Billy Beer” was the most outlandish scandal that a relative could inflict upon the Office of the President?

Billy Carter was a registered agent for Libya.

35 posted on 10/18/2022 7:32:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Liz

check


36 posted on 10/18/2022 7:39:34 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

37 posted on 10/18/2022 11:03:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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