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I am not seeing any evidence

artappraiser — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:12:45 +0000

In reply to Michael Cohen case shines light on Sean Hannity's property empire

I am not seeing any evidence to prove the insinuation that Hannity's involvement had anything to do with the Brock criminal conspiracy and bid rigging, that seems to have no legs.

Instead, the controversy developing is in the hypocrisy of him taking advantage of the HUD mortgage insurance to profit on these properties, basically using a ton of Federal government subsidy. For example, Paul Begala's hit piece on this for CNN yesterday: Sean Hannity is a 'welfare queen'

At the New Yorker News Desk, there was this yesterday, which I found interesting on many fronts:

Sean Who? An Afternoon in Hannityville

By Charles Bethea April 24, 2018

After reviewing lots of the documents, and explaining the whole HUD subsidy thing, Bethea reports how he visited one of the developments in Perry, Georgia, and interviewed a number of tenants, both African American and white, some self-described Dems, one old white guy who says he listens to mostly talk radio, heard the Hannity name but doesn't watch, the rest never heard of him, etc. Seeming to be people who we here on Dag might label "low info" because they mostly never heard of Hannity, don't seem to care that much who he is. And they all seem to be reasonably happy with the landlord's services, whoever he/she may be. Whoever he pays to manage, they are doing a good job.

Also if these tenants don't deserve to be called "low info" because they don't recognize Hannity as famous much less as connected to the president, they do still very much seem to qualify as the "everyday people" of the 2016 election.

For me, article is real wakeup call on how important we think these things are and how important those "everyday" people might think them. That which we think have the potential of huge scandal once the public knows about it might very well go over like a lead balloon.

Edit to add: Bethea notes Hannity got his start in GA, so he should have better name recognition there than elsewhere.

I don't know much about

Peter — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 03:42:43 +0000

In reply to I don’t know that Hannity was

I don't know much about Hannity but he seems to have made his fortune being a successful talk show host. Anyone who has this quantity of wealth must invest it to stay ahead of inflation and generate profits while the principal remains whole. Buying foreclosed and often run down houses is not a get rich scheme but a fairly safe investment with good yearly returns if the houses are bought cheaply enough, see the prices he paid. Either his ompany or some other property management company handles all the business involved in being the landlord and he collects a percentage at the end of the year. I doubt that HUD has been hyjacked by moderate sized investors like Hannity because selling large numbers of foreclosed properties is a big part of their responsibility usually dealing with much larger investors such as the Harvard foundation. The enticements they do offer now were designed to attract investors like Hannity and help clear up some of the backlog of unsold foreclosed homes so the markets could recover.

I don’t know that Hannity was

NCD — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 02:33:15 +0000

In reply to Hannity bought these houses

I don’t know that Hannity was a witting participant is this fraud. It’s possible he may even have been victimized by this Jeff Brock character. What I do know is that the crowd he travels in is always looking for a loophole and a get-rich-quick scam or some kind of tax avoidance scheme or a government program they can hijack. So, a guy like Hannity who has more money than he could ever spend and basically no education to speak of is a natural mark for countless scoundrels. Convince him to let you handle or invest his money, and you’re on the gravy train.

Hannity bought these houses

Peter — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:32:45 +0000

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Hannity bought these houses from Brock's company because they had the homes to sell and there is no claim of a connection, in the story, between Hannity and Brock's earlier crime of fixing auctions, none. It is surprising that Georgia allowed Brock to return to the housing business after his incarceration which Hannity knew nothing about.

Sean Hannity’s “come-downance

CVille Dem — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:05:15 +0000

In reply to Appearances are he had a

Sean Hannity’s “come-downance” is way over due. Everything that trump touches either gets dirty, or was dirty to start with. From what I am reading, the level of filth that Mueller has already uncovered is profound. I sure hope so.

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Appearances are he had a

artappraiser — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:21:33 +0000

In reply to Michael Cohen case shines light on Sean Hannity's property empire

Appearances are he had a shell company for bid rigging pay offs:

Sean Hannity's real estate venture linked to fraudulent property dealer

Shell company tied to the Fox News host bought homes through Jeff Brock, who was charged in 2016 with fraud and conspiracy for his role in a scheme to rig auctions on foreclosed properties

@TheGuardian.com, April 24

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artappraiser — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:27:11 +0000

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Except she doesn't seem to be

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:56:41 +0000

In reply to on motivations: well, there's

Except she doesn't seem to be doing "fake it til you make it" while he's always "fake it whether you make it or not".

on motivations: well, there's

artappraiser — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:17:25 +0000

In reply to beat me to it. Avenatti is

on motivations: well, there's that name recognition is valuable in itself. I was struck by the first iteration of Stormy's story going public with how she described her meeting with Trump as transactional, how she thought just like Trump PR-wise,and they were simpatico on that front and that he could do something for her. And that there didn't seem to be that much anger, not that much of a "woman scorned" thing. More like she just wanted to expose him as what he was. I sense this thing about Avenatti and Stormy both realizing that they could be better at the Trump PR thing than he can, that he's not that good at it, get in on bringing him down and come out smelling like roses with good name recognition to sell?Just intuition,nothing solid, mind you. They both strike me as having a lot in common with him, that's for sure. They're like the Trump in the Fortune 500 tapes.?

beat me to it. Avenatti is

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 06:11:00 +0000

In reply to Stormy Daniels lawyer claims

beat me to it. Avenatti is turning golden, though I still don't under stand his and Stormy's motivations - is it really just to reveal the truth (with some kind of tabloid profit)?

was also thinking that Trump has always been very selective about which poles he believes.