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Blue_Adept

(6,399 posts)
Mon May 29, 2017, 08:40 AM May 2017

Kushners busted on Instagram for giant, undisclosed art collection

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump didn’t declare their multimillion-dollar art collection on government ethics forms. They did, however, declare it on Instagram, where Ivanka makes a habit of photographing herself in front of the art hanging in their Fifth Avenue apartment.

While the Office of Government Ethics requires federal employees disclose pieces of art worth more than $1,000, Kushner left a slew of works by blue-chip and emerging artists worth around half-a-million each off his form, according to ArtNet.

The pieces and artists include:

Alex Israel
Alex Da Corte
David Ostrowski
A Nate Lowman painting similar to one that sold at Sotheby’s for $665,000 in 2013
A Dan Colen mixed-media work similar to one sold by Phillips New York for $578,500 in 2012


https://news.vice.com/story/trump-resumes-twitter-war-on-fake-media

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Kushners busted on Instagram for giant, undisclosed art collection (Original Post) Blue_Adept May 2017 OP
Laws, like taxes are for the little people! Dustlawyer May 2017 #1
Another form of money laundry? C_U_L8R May 2017 #2
Not laundry necessarily Saviolo May 2017 #8
Your link doesn't go to the story...just an FYI SticksnStones May 2017 #3
You have to scroll down a bit BumRushDaShow May 2017 #5
There are no individual links on the page to the pieces Blue_Adept May 2017 #9
Nothing honest about this family madokie May 2017 #4
I expect nothing will be done about this. progressoid May 2017 #6
It wouldn't be so bad, but.... Wounded Bear May 2017 #7
stanky republican ethics, and the tsunami of republican lies Achilleaze May 2017 #10

Saviolo

(3,282 posts)
8. Not laundry necessarily
Mon May 29, 2017, 12:19 PM
May 2017

But wealthy people are encouraged by financial advisers to purchase things like works of art or antiques because they are valuable assets that appreciate and are non-taxable like stock dividends or other investments that result in liquidity.

So, less money laundry and more tax evasion, which is likely why they're required to be declared on a federal form!

Blue_Adept

(6,399 posts)
9. There are no individual links on the page to the pieces
Mon May 29, 2017, 02:38 PM
May 2017

Which sucks, because there's a good deal of stuff in that running piece. CTRL-F with a keyword is what'll help.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
4. Nothing honest about this family
Mon May 29, 2017, 09:01 AM
May 2017

I'm not even sure they weren't shit instead of the normal birthing channel

Mybad for the morning imagine. I apologize but feel it is important that I state my true feelings and beliefs

Peace

progressoid

(49,991 posts)
6. I expect nothing will be done about this.
Mon May 29, 2017, 09:21 AM
May 2017

There is so much corruption in this administration/family that this looks like jaywalking by comparison.

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)
7. It wouldn't be so bad, but....
Mon May 29, 2017, 11:28 AM
May 2017

you have to assume that a complete list of all artworks they own already exist in insurance filings somewhere. All they would have to do is copy and attach the lists from their insurance papers.

To leave this off almost has to be intentional.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
10. stanky republican ethics, and the tsunami of republican lies
Mon May 29, 2017, 02:55 PM
May 2017

are deplorable, and frankly un-American. This is the kind of shit they do in freaking russia.

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