{"id":1830474,"date":"2023-01-31T13:34:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830474"},"modified":"2023-01-31T13:39:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:39:23","slug":"hunter-biden-paintings-worth-less-than-his-mounting-legal-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-paintings-worth-less-than-his-mounting-legal-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden Paintings Worth Less Than His Mounting Legal Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhunter-biden-paintings-worth-less-than-his-mounting-legal-bills%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830474&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<\/p>\n<p>After underwhelming sales of paintings Hunter Biden \/ Getty Images, Biden may launch a legal defence fund    <\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden is now in financial trouble after his paintings were sold for less that the six-figure price tag his gallerist estimated. He was previously in prison for making terrorist threats.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is considering launching a legal fund to pay his mounting attorney costs. This will be in response to a federal tax investigation and congressional inquiries into Biden&#8217;s foreign business dealings. <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/01\/31\/hunter-biden-legal-defense-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has sold approximately a dozen paintings &#8220;for a fraction of the $500,000 price tag once estimated&#8221; Georges Berges was his Manhattan gallerist, according to <em>Post<\/em>. According to a source, some potential buyers have been scared off by the congressional investigations into Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Berges, who was approved by the White House to vet Biden\u2019s art sales for ethical conflicts, was <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/hunter-biden-art-dealer-served-jail-time-and-allegedly-defrauded-investor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sentenced<\/a> In 1998, I was sentenced to three months imprisonment for threatening to kill a man. I was also accused of defrauding a shareholder in a lawsuit that was settled in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s paintings failed to impress the art world. Tabish Khan, a London-based art critic, was among those who rejected Biden&#8217;s paintings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook\/2021\/07\/27\/we-asked-art-critics-about-hunters-paintings-493751\">Telled<\/a> <em>Politico<\/em> That &#8220;an initial online glance suggests there\u2019s nothing new or challenging about his work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden, a former lobbyist who raked in millions through questionable domestic and foreign business dealings as his father\u2019s political career flourished, has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/for-biden-family-a-history-of-tax-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial problems claimed<\/a> For many years.<\/p>\n<p>Biden claimed to a court he was unemployed and broke in 2019, while fighting against a child paternity case brought against him from an exotic dancer he had conceived. Kathleen Buhle, his ex-wife, stated in 2017 divorce filings, that Biden had spent a lot of money and was in deep debt. &#8220;drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs, and gifts for women with whom he had sexual relations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite his financial troubles, Biden was still able to pay off the $450,000 tax lien in six days in 2020 and rent a $12,000-per month home in Hollywood Hills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Biden is in financial turmoil after his paintings sold for less than the six-figure price tags estimated by his gallerist, who previously spent time in jail for making terrorist threats.<br \/>\nThe post Hunter Biden Paintings Worth Less Than His Mounting Legal Bills appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":557732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[3620,3905,3822,4431,4147,7330,5502],"class_list":["post-1830474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-biden","tag-bills","tag-hunter","tag-legal","tag-mounting","tag-paintings","tag-worth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}