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Hunter Biden’s art poses major ethical problem
Press Telegram ^ | 7/30/23 | Editorial Board

Posted on 07/30/2023 5:02:21 PM PDT by Libloather

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Hirsh Naftali has contributed $13,000 to President Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign and this year has given $36,500 to the Democratic National Committee. White House visitor logs show that she has been at the executive mansion 13 times in the past 18 months. A Biden administration official said the art purchase was not the reason for Hirsh Naftali’s appointment, and it’s not clear when she bought the artwork or how much she paid for it. What is clear is that Hunter knew.

Hunter also knew that one of the purchasers was entertainment attorney Kevin Morris, whom he met in December 2019 at a fundraiser for his father. The New York Times reported in May 2022 that Morris loaned more than $2 million to the president’s son to help him pay off back taxes in the midst of an IRS criminal investigation. In a courtroom on Wednesday, a negotiated plea agreement with the Department of Justice collapsed when the judge’s questions prodded prosecutors to admit that Hunter Biden could still face charges in connection with large payments he received from foreign entities, possibly violating foreign-lobbying and money-laundering laws.

Congressional investigators have obtained bank records and IRS whistleblower testimony that point to a pattern of large payments to members of the Biden family for nothing of visible value. The House Oversight Committee has been trying to get records of the Biden art sales from the Georges Bergès Gallery, but Bergès has so far refused to cooperate.

In July 2021, just as the Berges Gallery was preparing to market Hunter Biden’s paintings, the gallery received an unusually large “disaster assistance loan” from the Small Business Administration in the amount of $350,000.

This is the very picture of an ethics problem.

(Excerpt) Read more at presstelegram.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: art; brandon; ethics; hirshnaftali; hunter; moneylaundering
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1 posted on 07/30/2023 5:02:21 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

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The Biden’s so ethical that their party’s mantra is:

No one is above the Law!


2 posted on 07/30/2023 5:07:30 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: Libloather

So does hunter Biden himself


3 posted on 07/30/2023 5:08:03 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Libloather

His art isn’t worth the money his goofball fans are willing to pay for it.


4 posted on 07/30/2023 5:09:41 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("There's no cryin' in baseball and there's no ethics in politics!" )
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Now, we know what a Director position at GM is worth.



5 posted on 07/30/2023 5:09:47 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: AnthonySoprano

Ethics??? Bidens don’t give a rat’s ass about ethics. Their only concern is how far they can go without getting convicted - and we now know they can get away with anything.

The power in the USA would rather have a demented traitor and his pedophile crack head son selling out the USA than a populist who only wants to restore the USA to its citizens.

We don’t have any moral high ground anymore.


6 posted on 07/30/2023 5:11:32 PM PDT by Aria
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To: Libloather

That an unethical and poor excuse for a man, Biden, can be president of the US after being found guilty of plagiarism on multiple occasions (including during the 2020 election cycle), publicly lying about the man who was involved in the accident that killed his wife, lying about the nature of his son’s death - in order to achieve political points, fondling children, and clearly being involve in trading access to power for money, is really an indication of the death of our Republic. We can’t survive letting this kind of hubris and injustice stand.


7 posted on 07/30/2023 5:14:28 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Aria

Truth


8 posted on 07/30/2023 5:14:33 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: AnthonySoprano

Ethical problem?
To a DemocRAT?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaah!


9 posted on 07/30/2023 5:15:06 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It might be worth a couple bucks more than the “advice” he gave the Burma Board of Directors. At lease you get a canvas with some paint on it.


10 posted on 07/30/2023 5:17:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: Libloather

The paintings look something a person on drugs would create. Although some of them are interesting IF he did it himself.


11 posted on 07/30/2023 5:21:37 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Libloather
Last year I purchased a Hunter Biden painting (see below) for $250,000. It’s a beautiful painting, and I’m happy to own it.

Since then, I have received over $5 million in federal contracts. It’s just a coincidence I’m telling you, and nothing more.


12 posted on 07/30/2023 5:24:29 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Libloather

High cost of art masquerading as normal art purchases. This entire Biden scam (elections fraud, health fitness, attacks on Supreme Court, government documents possession, DOJ weaponization, the media cabal, the “Bidenomics” and influence peddling) is a masquerade by the Marxist to take America down into the hands of the oligarchs.


13 posted on 07/30/2023 5:25:35 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Libloather
hunter painting, half million dollars:

Local Maine hero (although he's moved south) Bo Bartlett painting, twenty grand:

I dunno. You be the judge.

14 posted on 07/30/2023 5:25:48 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Libloather
I suspect that Hunter Biden's art could be considered a form of steganography, the practice of concealing information within another message or physical object to avoid detection. In this case, what is being concealed is the paid influence to the Resident of the United States.
15 posted on 07/30/2023 5:28:41 PM PDT by asinclair (What doesn't kill you makes you stronger)
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To: Leaning Right

Congratulations.....your taste in art is impeccable.


16 posted on 07/30/2023 5:33:10 PM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: Libloather

Art has been used for money laundering for a very long time.


17 posted on 07/30/2023 5:36:08 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Leaning Right

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The Truth hurts.

I suspect you were a Govt Contracting Officer is another life.

Excellent!


18 posted on 07/30/2023 5:39:54 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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19 posted on 07/30/2023 5:44:28 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: Libloather

Biden and ethical should never be used together in any written form.


20 posted on 07/30/2023 5:48:39 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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