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Garion_55

(1,915 posts)
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 11:54 AM Feb 2019

I am getting more and more convinced that Hannity is under investigation

Yesterday I commented on how Cohen let it slip that one of his clients other than Trump is under investigation right now.

Cohen only had three clients. That makes it a 50-50 chance that that person is Hannity.

The reason I believe that Hannity is that client is because Cohen talked about how originally he was mainly a real estate lawyer. And he talked about how easy it was to set up a shell company.

Then I remembered Hannity saying this.

"Michael knows real estate."


And thousands of pages of public records show that Hannity has a massive portfolio — over the past decade, more than 20 shell companies linked to Hannity bought at least 877 properties for just under $89 million, The Guardian said Sunday.

The residential properties — in Florida, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, Vermont, and New York — include multimillion-dollar mansions used by Hannity, single-family units in modest suburbs, and apartments in low-income areas,





Hannity claims that Cohen only ever gave him advice and never represented him. Think about where Cohen was at that point in his life and what he was engaged in.

What ethical legal aboveboard advice could Cohen have even possibly given Hannity I can't think of any.


The type of advice Cohen was giving out at that time was how to over and under inflate the value of your properties and how to easily set up shell companies.


If Hannity took any of that advice and followed through on it, he could be in for a shitstorm full of trouble. My guess is the southern district is currently looking into all of those purchases and looking into Hannity's Financial records to see if he also over and under inflated the value of his properties like Trump did.

I hope to God that's what happened and that Hannity will be spending some time behind bars with his fellow Republicans.

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I am getting more and more convinced that Hannity is under investigation (Original Post) Garion_55 Feb 2019 OP
You may be very right ScratchCat Feb 2019 #1
Exactly! Duppers Feb 2019 #11
If this is true, I have only one regret DFW Feb 2019 #2
Oh no, not like Gobbels. MicaelS Feb 2019 #6
Only if it's life with no chance of parole or pardon DFW Feb 2019 #8
Beginning to look like high end real estate is one of those industries... Wounded Bear Feb 2019 #3
This will be easy to uncover ScratchCat Feb 2019 #5
Is it being investigated by New York's SD? Wednesdays Feb 2019 #9
I have little doubt about that. GoCubsGo Feb 2019 #4
That would be soooo fitting. Sherman A1 Feb 2019 #7
You're probably right!! Duppers Feb 2019 #10
I have been saying this since the news broke last year. Initech Feb 2019 #12
It would make sense as to why Garion_55 Feb 2019 #13
Isn't that disgusting Elliiot Briody whatever his other client though? I'm sure he is under UniteFightBack Feb 2019 #14
It's going to be one or the other. Garion_55 Feb 2019 #16
Well we already know Broidy is under investigation. UniteFightBack Feb 2019 #18
I hope it's coastal shoreline in all the states that have shores. mahina Feb 2019 #15
Cohen didn't let anything "slip" but he was very careful to answer questions put to him... Hekate Feb 2019 #17

ScratchCat

(1,990 posts)
1. You may be very right
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 12:00 PM
Feb 2019

It would make sense. Any person with a brain can understand that there would be limited reasons for anyone to use the services of Michael Cohen, and this would be one of the limited reasons. Trump probably even turned Hannity on to him since he would otherwise have no connection.

DFW

(54,387 posts)
2. If this is true, I have only one regret
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 12:00 PM
Feb 2019

Since Hannity has been basically running a propaganda ministry for the extremist right for something like two decades, I regret that he will not end up like his role model, Josef Göbbels.

DFW

(54,387 posts)
8. Only if it's life with no chance of parole or pardon
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 12:50 PM
Feb 2019

Otherwise he emerges as a right-wing martyr, and that's worse than Gobbels' fate.

One obvious variation--Hannity does NOT get to shoot his wife or poison his children first.

Wounded Bear

(58,660 posts)
3. Beginning to look like high end real estate is one of those industries...
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 12:04 PM
Feb 2019

that needs some serious looking into. All the money laundering, shell corporations, and shady dealings indicate that the whole industry might be dirty. Or at least a huge part of it.

ScratchCat

(1,990 posts)
5. This will be easy to uncover
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 12:19 PM
Feb 2019

for several reasons. One being this: To challenge a property assessment, you have to get an appraisal to present to the adjustment board. That means there are appraisers out there who would have prepared appraisals for these hearings. Trust me, no appraiser is going to prison for Sean Hannity. If they were instructed to construct a phony appraisal based upon inflated expenses(typical trick for income properties), then the person preparing the appraisal knows what they did.

And again - this is a STATE CRIME!! No pardon for Mr. Hannity.

Wednesdays

(17,379 posts)
9. Is it being investigated by New York's SD?
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 01:48 PM
Feb 2019

If so, that's still federal. What you're looking for is the Attorney General of the State of New York.

GoCubsGo

(32,084 posts)
4. I have little doubt about that.
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 12:06 PM
Feb 2019

Once it became known he was one of Michael Cohen's clients, I assumed he was also swept up in the whole thing.

Duppers

(28,120 posts)
10. You're probably right!!
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 02:36 PM
Feb 2019

His conviction would be the sweetest - next to tRump's, of course!! I'd party for days!

Thanks for pulling the logical pieces together.

Initech

(100,076 posts)
12. I have been saying this since the news broke last year.
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 05:07 PM
Feb 2019

Hannity's definitely in on it since his head is so far up Trump's ass. The question is to what degree?

Garion_55

(1,915 posts)
13. It would make sense as to why
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 07:36 PM
Feb 2019

Hannity is the biggest anti Muller anti investigation pundit out there. Because he personally could get caught up in the bullshit. He's protecting his own ass.

 

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)
14. Isn't that disgusting Elliiot Briody whatever his other client though? I'm sure he is under
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 07:38 PM
Feb 2019

investigation.

Hekate

(90,694 posts)
17. Cohen didn't let anything "slip" but he was very careful to answer questions put to him...
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 08:01 PM
Feb 2019

...and it was very enlightening for people like you who have been keeping tabs. As I believe he intended it to be. It's like he wrote on the blackboard 2 + 2 = ? and anyone keeping track knows the answer is 4.

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