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Art gallery repping Hunter Biden received $500K federal COVID loan, records show
nypost.com ^ | 10 /9/21 | Isabel Vincent w/ Jon Levine

Posted on 10/09/2021 12:58:38 PM PDT by Liz

A federal COVID loan to the art gallery repping Hunter Biden more than doubled after his father took office, records show.

The Georges Berges Gallery initially received a $150,000 COVID “disaster assistance loan” from the SBA last year.

But the loan was recently “revised,” with the SBA approving a further $350,000 to the gallery this summer.

The approval came on July 26, in the lead-up to Berges’ exclusive marketing of 15 paintings by the president’s scandal-scarred son.

In addition to the COVID loans, the SoHo gallery received nearly $80,000 in two payments in April 2020 and February 2021 under the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program, funds meant to help businesses keep up with paychecks to employees during the pandemic.

All tolled, $580,000 in taxpayer-funded COVID relief aid was doled out to a gallery with only two employees, according to SBA records.

Asked in repeated messages if the Bidens interceded in his loans; if any of the government cash went directly to Hunter Biden as a salary or stipend; or if any of it was used to market his artwork, Berges refused to answer.

Besides being the President's son, Hunter Biden also creates art. Besides being the President’s son, Hunter Biden also creates art. TheImageDirect.com “I received my PPP loan in April of 2020 when Donald Trump was president, along with countless other galleries which, considering a global pandemic was happening, we had every right to. … Most galleries received this loan,” Berges said. “We were not unique.”

While there is no evidence President Biden helped secure the fatter disaster relief loan for the gallery, a watchdog group found that of the more than 100 galleries in New York City’s 10th congressional district, which includes SoHo, TriBeCa and Chelsea, the Georges Berges Gallery received “by far” the largest SBA disaster loan windfall.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: artgallery; covidloan; hunterbiden; hunterbidenartscam
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1 posted on 10/09/2021 12:58:38 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Impeach the Bass Turd!


2 posted on 10/09/2021 1:05:29 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Liz

Sounds like a good gig.

besides this is probably normal, I am sure any of us could have done the same thing.


3 posted on 10/09/2021 1:12:46 PM PDT by algore ( )
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To: Liz

How in the sam hell is this guy still walking around freely?

I know he’s the president’s son, but the man has been selling
his access for a long long time, and his father has been
taking part of the cash.

This is such clear corruption, there’s no denying it.

The people who ignore it, are the ones who have tried to
make a case against Trump for the last six years, for
doing perfectly legal things.

Hunter and Joseph Stolen WERE NOT DOING LEGAL THINGS.
> IMO


4 posted on 10/09/2021 1:14:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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To: Liz
"Biden just bragged about helping a friend jump to the head of the line in an emergency room COVID relief line.

All it takes is a phone call, man!

5 posted on 10/09/2021 1:15:30 PM PDT by moovova (Honest, I'm dismayed that most of the world hates me for being non-vaxxed. No, really.)
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To: Liz

In fairness, ya gotta remember that’s gross. You have to subtract the 10 percent for the big guy.


6 posted on 10/09/2021 1:16:23 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Liz

Yeah. Art galleries...not suffering small businesses, need hundreds of thousands of dollars.

D.C. is a cesspool.


7 posted on 10/09/2021 1:28:06 PM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; Courage is a decision." Winston Churchill)
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To: Liz

Art galleries are where yuppies go to do coke.


8 posted on 10/09/2021 1:52:05 PM PDT by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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To: moovova

H/T satirist John Semmens.......at a speech in Illinois, Biden bragged about “using my personal magnetism to help a good friend of mine cut in line ahead of others at a Pennsylvania hospital emergency room. I just called and said this is Joe Biden. You know, I grew up in Pennsylvania. I’d like you to do me a favor…I didn’t even have to mention I am the President of the United States. This is just one more example of how I’ve been getting things done for the American people since I’ve been President.”


9 posted on 10/09/2021 1:54:34 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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THIS JUST IN: Hunter Biden’s Second Art Show in NYC Delayed Until Spring

I hear Hunter’s going back into therapy.......seems he can’t get it on unless there’s a laptop in the room.

They’re gonna try to wean him off laptops into smart phone cameras..........thus the delay.

Hunters sex life is more important than his art.


10 posted on 10/09/2021 1:57:29 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz
All tolled, $580,000 in taxpayer-funded COVID relief aid was doled out to a gallery with only two employees, according to SBA records.

Damn, ten grand short of $300K a year. Who said those Art History degrees were worthless? Even when you factor in ten percent for the Big Guy that's pretty good coin.

11 posted on 10/09/2021 2:03:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Liz

The art world don’t think too highly of Hunter’s “art”!

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hunter-biden-is-a-burgeoning-artist-1789893

No surprise!!!!

The “art” sales are just a cover for bribery!! PHOOEY!!!!


12 posted on 10/09/2021 2:06:46 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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MEET THE BIDEN BOYS SNIFF & SNORT - )
13 posted on 10/09/2021 2:09:56 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

$580,000 in taxpayer-funded COVID relief aid was doled out to a gallery with only two employees, according to SBA records
and those trying to stay above water are being raked over the coals for 10 or 20 grand legit.


14 posted on 10/09/2021 2:12:22 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Always look behind the curtain)
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To: ronnie raygun

Nice research, rr.....

$580,000 in federal taxpayer-funded COVID relief aid was doled out to this gallery

The gallery has only two employees.......according to SBA records.

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Makes me wonder if apps were falsified.


15 posted on 10/09/2021 2:23:00 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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In addition to the COVID loans, the gallery received nearly $80,000 in two payments in April 2020 and February 2021 under the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program, funds meant to help businesses keep up with paychecks to employees during the pandemic.

All tolled, $580,000 in taxpayer-funded COVID relief aid was doled out to a gallery with only two employees, according to SBA records.


16 posted on 10/09/2021 2:25:31 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

Oooops. Thats a boo boo.


17 posted on 10/09/2021 2:25:39 PM PDT by wardamneagle (c)
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Don’t forget: 10% for The Big Guy.


18 posted on 10/09/2021 2:27:38 PM PDT by Rio
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To: Liz

Well….it just fell out the sky folks….imagine that !


19 posted on 10/09/2021 2:30:27 PM PDT by wardamneagle (c)
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To: Liz

Shell company.


20 posted on 10/09/2021 2:39:53 PM PDT by Revel
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