[NY Post] A real estate company with ties to first son Hunter Biden received more than $100 million from a Russian billionaire for property investments across the US that date back a decade, sources have told The Post.
The hefty cash injections into Rosemont Realty came from Elena Baturina — one of Russia’s wealthiest women, the widow of the former mayor of Moscow, and a close ally of Moscow tyrant Vladimir Putin, the sources said.
In one portfolio deal, Baturina paid at least $40 million to Rosemont to invest in office buildings across the country, according to a source with knowledge of the transactions.
That money went toward the 2012 purchase of seven office buildings in Texas, Colorado, Alabama, New Mexico and Oklahoma, according to deal-related emails obtained by DailyMail.com.
The investment purportedly came from Inteco Management AG — the Swiss company owned by Baturina.
This isn’t the first time President Biden’s 52-year-old son has been linked to Baturina, whose late husband Yuri Luzhkov was mayor of Russia’s capital for more than 18 years before being dismissed by then-President Dmitry Medvedev in 2010.... [Remember the hullaballoo in Kazakhstan not too long ago?]
....The emails detailing Baturina’s $40 million real estate investments came from a leak obtained by the Kazakhstani Initiative on Asset Recovery, an anti-corruption group focusing on the former Soviet republic.
The messages were exchanged between Archer and Kenes Rakishev — a Kazakhstani businessman who was photographed with Hunter and Joe Biden at the Cafe Milano dinner.
"Inteco, who I know you know, is taking a significant equity piece ... We’d love to have you on board," Archer wrote in an email to Rakishev.
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^ Being as how he spends so much time in Delaware it might be illuminating to set up a camera with a long range lens to see who is coming and going at the Biden home. Dunno if that could be done but it might yield some interesting results.
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Cupcake Price Index for the new waking up people is straight forward and tangible.
[Hot Air] FBI Director Christopher Wray certainly gets around. The guy travels often enough that it’s a wonder he finds any time to get back to the office and dispatch armed squads to roust pastors out of their homes at gunpoint in front of their children. But then again, he’s in charge of the nation’s largest federal law enforcement agency, so I’m sure he’s got a lot on his plate. The question surrounding his activities this week, however, has less to do with how often he travels than it does with how he travels. It seems that Wray has been making very liberal use of the FBI’s private jet when he needs to get away from the Beltway. On at least one occasion he used it to head to his family’s vacation home in the Adirondack Mountains. And another series of trips to the Atlanta area is also under scrutiny. The problem is that Congress never authorized that jet for personal use. It’s only supposed to be used for counterterrorism purposes. (NY Post)
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Somewhere in the subcontracting pipeline a couple Chinese parts gets 'accidentally' substituted could lead to a bad day and the irony would be the name cross checks with that on the Hunter laptop.
[USAToday] Susan Page. Noted Dem lover
Republican J.D. Vance has opened a narrow edge over Democrat Tim Ryan in the U.S. Senate race in Ohio, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, as President Joe Biden’s unpopularity complicates the campaign by the moderate Democratic congressman to flip a GOP-held seat.
Vance leads 47%-45%, a shift from Ryan’s one-point advantage last month, 47%-46%. Both findings are within the survey’s 4.4 percentage-point margin of error.
The Ohio race stands second only to Pennsylvania as a prospect for Democrats to pick up a Senate seat now held by a Republican. That said, national Democratic groups have invested more money and effort in Wisconsin in hopes of ousting GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, who led by 6 points in a Marquette University poll last week.
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Still dozens of Trump signs and flags in the county though
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Saw the same thing in Northern Ga. in the last presidential. The countryside and small hamlets were awash in pro-Trump flags, yard signs, and banners. Strangely, it didn't matter in the end.
[FoxNews] Liberal dark money network houses dozens of liberal nonprofits, including one that works with Biden admin on policy.
A Chuck Schumer-aligned nonprofit has hauled in massive amounts from anonymous donors, tax forms show. The firm overlooking America's largest liberal dark money network is expanding its operations as it experiences skyrocketing cash flows, which include billions of dollars raised and poured into progressive causes and initiatives across the country in recent years.
Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C., consulting firm that manages four nonprofits that host dozens of shadowy left-wing groups, including one that works with the Biden administration on policy, recently acquired New York-based Kiwi Partners, which provides nonprofit accounting and consulting services.
"As we've stated repeatedly, Arabella Advisors is a business dedicated to making philanthropic work more efficient, effective, and equitable," Arabella spokesperson Steve Sampson told Fox News Digital. "Our nonprofit clients hire us to provide HR, legal, payroll and other administrative services—and, like all service providers, we work for our clients, not the other way around. They make their own decisions on strategy, fundraising, and programmatic goals."
"Over the past 24 years, Kiwi Partners has established itself as an industry leader in nonprofit accounting and HR services, and their expertise in these areas complements the services Arabella currently provides our nonprofit clients," he added. "The acquisition deepens Arabella’s capacity to support the nonprofit sector, and we are excited for our partners who will benefit from the combined expertise of our teams."
The expansion comes as the Arabella Advisors-managed nexus positions itself as the pinnacle dark money network. It further shows how Democrats have exploited anonymous donations while publicly railing against their influence in politics.
The network's web of groups sits under four Arabella-managed nonprofits: the New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Windward Fund and Hopewell Fund. Each fund acts as a fiscal sponsor to other liberal nonprofits by providing their tax status to the nonprofits housed beneath them.
This setup allows the fiscally sponsored groups to avoid filing tax forms to the IRS, effectively obscuring their financial information. The four Arabella-managed nonprofits also do not disclose donor information on their tax forms, keeping the public in the dark to the full extent of who is using the network as a conduit to fund left-wing initiatives.
The four funds combined to collect $1.6 billion from secret donors in 2020 - an increase of $885 million over what they had raked in throughout 2019, their tax forms show. They combined to disburse nearly $900 million in 2020.
The network contains dozens of liberal groups ranging from Campaign for Our Shared Future, which formed this year to push back against opponents of Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools, to Governing for Impact, which quietly works behind the scenes with President Biden's administration to shape policy.
Influential Democratic donors use the network to funnel cash to projects, including billionaire George Soros, who provided millions to Governing for Impact and its action fund, Fox News Digital previously reported.
Governing for Impact boasted in internal memos of implementing more than 20 of its regulatory agenda items since Biden took office as it works to reverse Trump-era deregulations by targeting education, environmental, health care, housing and labor issues.
The group also has additional Soros ties beyond his contributions. Tom Perriello, the executive director of Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF), sits on Governing for Impact's four-person board. Mary Beth Maxwell, a special advisor at OSF, appeared in the group's slide deck as part of its "listening tour."
"Open Society is proud to support Governing for Impact's efforts to protect American workers, consumers, patients, students and the environment through policy reform," Perriello previously told Fox News Digital.
"Their work gives voice to people often overlooked in a regulatory environment too often dominated by corporate interests," he continued. "Our support for Governing for Impact's work is publicly available on our website and we are transparent about our enthusiasm for their victories for American workers and families."
Soros' advocacy nonprofit, the Open Society Policy Center, was also an early funder of the judicial advocacy group Demand Justice, which the Sixteen Thirty Fund fiscally sponsored until last year when it branched off and became a standalone organization.
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Yes, but if you call them on it, they call you names ending in "-phobic." And we can't have that.
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I am corruptiphobic. In this case they might as well be raking the dollars into piles and lighting them afire. As a candidate product Fetterman is turd cereal. No advertising campaign will make him taste like Coco Puffs. Nobody is going to cast a vote for Lennie Small from Of Mice and Men with Biden giving us a daily demonstration of the import of mental capacity.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[NY Post] A real estate company with ties to first son Hunter Biden received more than $100 million from a Russian billionaire for property investments across the US that date back a decade, sources have told The Post.
[Hot Air] FBI Director 
