BREAKING: Sean Hannity owns 870 houses, many bought with taxpayer money

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"Dozens of the properties were bought at a discount in 2013, after banks foreclosed on their previous owners for defaulting on mortgages. Before and after then, Hannity sharply criticised Barack Obama for the US foreclosure rate. In January 2016, Hannity said there were 'millions more Americans suffering under this president' partly because of foreclosures."

Correction: He makes $36 million a year between Fox and his radio show.

Time for a pig roast - and Hannity is THE prize HOG. I have despised this putrid, obese, hypocritical, evil man for a decade plus; it is so nice to hear that karma has finally paid him a visit.

Such greed. Fuck him.

"He got them with help from the National Housing Act loan program"

I believe charity begins at home; all 870 of them.

Cohen helping him with real estate indeed.

Sneaky snake 🐍

They are all monsters

Trump did the same thing.Kick em out raise the rent sue em.

Didn't Hannity and his entourage supposedly live a five-star lifestyle for months, paid for by the proceeds of a touring concert for the alleged benefit of wounded veterans?

And yet, nothing will happen to him.

SHOCKER

Yes Hannity and his good friend Oliver North had a very good time supporting the troops.

And the deploracunts will do nothing but cheer him on!

How many would love if Hannity went to prison?

This needs to be all over Social media.

Each house probably has Nielsen rating devices hooked up, to give his show TV fake boosts.

Guillotine

[quote]Each house probably has Nielsen rating devices hooked up, to give his show TV fake boosts.

GURL. And wait until it's revealed that Steven "Foreclosure King" Mnuchin is the mastermind to this plot

It's all so perfect. Greedy bastards feeding on other people's misery. The definition of a Republican.

All of these corrupt assholes are going to bust Hell wide open.

There is no justice in this world.

Total crook, taking advantage of poor people and government subsidies designed to help poor people. I hope Hannity, Trump and Kellyanne rot in Hell

For now I'm just appreciating the POS is worried. Let him have a massive but not fatal stroke.

Piece of shit.

OMG Avenatti was right! lol

Both Stormy and Michael Avenatti are going to make millions (as they should) from their story rights after this whole thing goes down. *Legends*

Is this being covered at all today?

bump

This will be so much fun once Michael Cohen flips. I hope he takes all the republican bigots and criminals with him.

Within that circle of hell, there is a very odd paradox.

On the one hand, those people hate the rich because they envy and feel that they were somehow cheated.

On the other hand, there is a certain category of those rich that they give a pass because they're seen as having made it on their own and represent their ideal and idealized America where anyone can get rich. They are the people to whom they aspire to be.

That's why there is a huge portion of these people who also oppose things like the inheritance tax and other randian libtard stupid. They don't want to be hoisted by their own petard on the off chance they become rich themselves.

Seems like there should be a law against buying so many HUD houses when you are already rich

Benghazi

Greedy grifting cunt.

He is lowlife scum, was he going to sell those places to Russians who needed to launder money? I think yes.

He should get a 15 year sentence at least.

ditto: Greedy Monster. But this is what America has become. Money and power trumps all.

Sean is furious!

"It is ironic that I am being attacked for investing my personal money in communities that badly need such investment and in which, I am sure, those attacking me have not invested their money," Hannity said in a statement. "The fact is, there are investments that I do not individually select, control or know the details about; except that obviously I believe in putting my money to work in communities that otherwise struggle to receive such support."

R36...Sorry about this...but...

Welfare fraud. He should be drug tested. Then lock him up!

R36, now he's a philanthropist? How many of those houses did he sell at cut rate to poor folks? He is such a pig. I've been saying that REIFs are evil since they came to pass. They are, he is, and HUD needs a damned audit.

I still can't look at his face and not see a huge thumb.

Gee ....sounds like Sean Hannity is one of the ELITES. What's more, he's an ELITE member of THE MEDIA!

Media elite!

Another horrible conservative hypocrite...how surprising.

Investing in depressed neighborhoods? I will eat my hat if that clown ever stepped foot in those places. How about bailing out the people who were foreclosed on or contributing some of those buildings to Habitat for Humanity? I am SICK to death of these people couching their malignant greed as philanthropy. No, you are not creating jobs with your money laundering, import visas for models?massage therapists at Mar a Lardass or maids to clean up the mess of families thrown out by the local constable. Is it a requirement to give up your heart when you become a card carrying rethuglican?

One thing to call out: this puts the lie to Hannity's claims about his conversation with Cohen. The extent of these holdings, the number of years he's been doing this, the companies he has set up, etc., means that he's getting very professional advice and that he knows what he's doing.

Cohen has no expertise in this area. So why on earth would Hannity consult with him?

Cohen can set up the LLCs like he did for Baby fingers

He also knows the type of people to throw out foreclosed families, R45. Nice family man, that Cohen.

In 2008, I was interested in buying a house that was about to go into but not yet in foreclosure. The house was in a solid middle class neighborhood with stable property values but was bought as an investment by someone who wanted to flip it, the recession hit and the owner was stuck with more debt than he could handle. Common enough scenario. But when I asked my realtor to make a counter offer, he said he couldn't and explained that there were groups of investors buying up all of these homes as part of a portfolio and it was impossible to get any information about them. The public record after the house sold was to some LLC which had absolutely no internet presence. I wonder if Hannity (or his ilk) was involved with this particular property. I am going to see if I can find the address in my files and do more research on it.

Homes and Health Care became investments instead of what they are: necessities. Now we have shits like Hannity pulling moves like this by abusing programs that were supposed to help people get into homes.

Ditto r47 I had cash in hand and could never get a call back.

Blame it on REIFs, R47 and R49. I've had the same experience. There's also a trend to buy houses for Air bnb investments.

I remember one house in particular , mid century modern gem. Had a 8 foot wide hole in the kitchen ceiling. All the wood cabinets are rotten and water logged from said hole. The swimming pool was floating 4 feet out of the ground. The bank could accept no less than 219k when comp houses in the same street were 100k tops. Turn out during the boom someone had paid 475 for this house and lived in it free for years until they were evicted.

Hannity being known as a slumlord is an upgrade.

R51, I saw a great old farmhouse just two weeks ago, totally trashed by the owners who lived there, rent free, in the old family home. Same thing with the over-inflated price. They couldn't even be bothered to clean it up and weren't taking bids for anything under list.

So the house bubble was burst deliberately so guys like Hannity (aka friends and lackey's of the GOP) could get the properties on the cheap?

Go through Sean Hannity's background with a fine tooth comb. If he is associated with Cohen he has got to be slimy and corrupt.

It sure seems like it, R54. I'm amazed at the trash they want to sell for the prices they want. And this is rural Vermont!

I have to give the Brits credit: The Guardian has really been putting out some great investigative pieces lately.

Speculation on Twitter is that Russian money laundering is involved.

A boy can dream...

CNN (Erin Burnett) is finally reporting on this

They just said his real estate attorney is married to a CNN executive.

^^ clarification please!!

His (Hannity??)

Real Estate attorney (Cohen??)

Not that he wasn't already a joke as a journalist, but he is now totally compromised as well. Any reputable news outlet would have fired him for not disclosing the HUD dealings with ol' Smokey or his relationship, even ten dollars worth, with Cohen the Creeper.

lordy! If we have money laundering then we get also tax evasion!

I live in the hamptons and all the newcMegaMansions are owned by LLCs. Groups of investors hire builders then sell or rent out the houses. A neighbor of mine does estate maintenance - hires landscapers, housekeepers, chefs, looks into any contracting that needs to be done to fix anything. Almost no new houses are owned by single buyers or by a family.

[quote]Any reputable news outlet

Yeah, there's the rub

Ethical standards are for the "legacy media," not mavericks like Sean

Who is this mug calling elite?

So can someone please finish this PIG off already? I will say my prayers and write Hannity's public demise down as #1 on my Santa list. LOL. Seriously - it often seems that these hypocritical, conservative, asshole pigs just get away with mass murder and no one ever holds them accountable. Hillary! Benghazi! Emails! Lock her up! They shout that shit after being caught red-handed and the ignorant, moronic, evangelical masses just ignore and then continue to drink the Kool-aid. It is painful to observe.

WTF? Is everything legal? why hide ? makes me hate him even more!

wait. but 870 houses are worth what? are they shit holes or multi million homes?

r70 Hannity is a slumlord, just like Trump and Kushner.

Is this the legal advice that he allegedly paid Michael Cohen ten dollars for? Setting up shell companies for $90 million in investments via HUD loans? Crooks! It is unfortunate that Cohen and Hannity will be pardoned by Trump because they all helped each other make shitty business deals that worked the system and took advantage of poor people’s misery. I assume Michael Cohen was on retainer from Trump or Russians. It’s all so vulgar and corrupt

he probably convinced trump to sell him a room or two of the white house at a big discount

How shocking that yet another conservative white asshole who screams about welfare is a recipient! Truly shocking!

Once again I smell Deutsche Bank lurking in a dark corner. Hannity might own 870 houses, and he might have $90 million invested, but it's not his money--it's mostly borrowed. Find out who loaned him the money and I guarantee you'll find either Russians or Deutsche Bank or some combination of both. That's what will bring him down.

Brilliant, R75. That fat pig is so deep in shit that his hair (wig) reeks.

what is the point of owning 870 houses if they are of little or no value?

r77 Cheap apartment buildings and houses in low income areas are goldmines. Just ask slumlords like Trump and Kushner.

The fucker took advantage of a program meant for low income people. Disgusting beyond belief and conservatives who defend this LI trash should drop dead.

SEAN HANNITY IS A WELFARE QUEEN!

God, that face was just made to be repeatedly punched.

Don’t expect fox to do anything about it...this is grounds for promotion.

FOX viewers -particular the poor, white trash- are just fucking idiots. So embarrassingly inferior in intellect.

particularly*

Somehow this thread from Sunday has only 82 replies. Yet the Joy Reid thread from today has 213 replies, including references to Farrakhan, Al Sharpton and George Soros. Now I wonder why that is.

We both know why. R85. It's the same reason that a brown guy jaywalking on an entirely different continent will get a couple hundred replies while a white guy killing several people 5 mins from the average (white) DLer's house will get very few replies. Recall that thread about some vehicle in Germany plowing into people? It got to about 30 until everyone found it was a white Nazi guy and the thread died. These idiots have their agenda.

but those low income housing is usually poorly built and tenants don't take care of the apts. What;s the point of owning these houses if you got to constantly make repairs etc? doesn't seem worth it to me. sorry i must be really stupid.

From all the reports I've read, what Hannity did was unethical, immoral, and grossly hypocritical. Unfortunately, (for those of us who despise him), none of it is illegal. It's just yet another case of a sniveling, smug Far Right Scumbag getting away with more shit.

r87 Poor tenants have nowhere else to live. Slumlords get rich by not making repairs until they absolutely have to.

and his taxes are all filed correctly? you know he probably tries to scam the IRS. audit him!

R90 - of course he did -scam all day long, but will anyone audit him? Crooked POS and scum all the way around. I just want to shove his fat, smug face in his own vat of shit. Sadly, if the feds do not get anything good on him - Fox will of course promote him. Crooks, tramps and thieves - this entire bunch. Hannity enrages me to such a degree that I start to think of justifiable homicide. Whatever, I will cool off. I just cant't stand this hypocritical fat pig. And I am always perplexed by the Pat Robertson's who will praise him for his "macho", "locker-room" behavior and proclaim him the next coming of Christ. I am waiting for God to finally get fed up and just off these greedy, hypocritical, evil fucks.

Any Fox viewer should be pointed and laughed at for being village idiots. It's time to shame them for listening to that conservative bullshit that makes guys like Sean Hannity rich on his own audience's back without them realizing.

I bet this cunt has off shore accounts not disclosed to the IRS. I hope they get him and jail him!

There were times when I didn't even have a tent over my head.

Not sure of his situation but owning shit hole apartments can generate huge returns from section 8 vouchers. I collect full rent, portion guaranteed by the City and small amount from tenant (30% of income).

Government portion is never late and the tenant pays his on time because an eviction is cause for losing your S8 voucher. And no poor person wants that.

Also minimal maintenance or unit updating. Some tenants have lived in units for decades. He has a sweet deal if I read this right. Huge cash flow.

Does he wear a toupee? That hair looks like fake-o.

Scum like Hannity and Trump are the reason a family of four live in $1500 room.And working class folk live in shelters or their cars. He's also the first one to tell you to get a third job and stop cryin bout the rent going up snowflakes.

Does Hannity reveal he and Cohen and Trump use hookers but tell the world they are great family men? Liars and crooks

"Sean Hannity: 400% rise in eviction orders since host bought Georgia apartment complex

County court records say that judgments approving the removal of 61 different residents of the Hampton Place apartments in Perry have been issued during the three years and 10 months since Hannity took over.

The previous owner of the 152-unit apartment complex obtained similar orders against 12 different tenants during the preceding three years and 10 months, according to the records, before selling it to Hannity for almost $8m.

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The Guardian first reported on Sunday that Hannity was the secret owner connected to a group of 20 shell companies that have spent $90m on more than 870 homes across seven states over the past decade.

Hampton Place is one of two apartment complexes in Georgia that Hannity bought in 2014 for $22.7m. The purchases were partly funded with $17.9m in mortgages guaranteed by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Apartments at the site are currently advertised for rent from $860 a month.

The court records suggest the rate of eviction orders at Hampton Place has increased by more than 400% under Hannity’s ownership. Landlords can obtain the orders from a magistrate judge when a tenant taken to court for unpaid rent fails to respond or pay within seven days. The orders empower local sheriff’s deputies to forcibly remove tenants and their property."

[quote]Does Hannity reveal he and Cohen and Trump use hookers but tell the world they are great family men? Liars and crooks

Good thing Bill Clinton never strayed in his marriage.

Lock him up!

[quote]Good thing Bill Clinton never strayed in his marriage.

Whatabutism will not help you in 2018 or 2020.

I hope the other news organizations report on this corruption.

[quote]Does Hannity reveal he and Cohen and Trump use hookers but tell the world they are great family men? Liars and crooks

[quote]Good thing Bill Clinton never strayed in his marriage.

Ah so Bill Clinton is also a rightwinger who pretends to defend “Christian morality” from moral relativism?

Who knew?

R98, I hear ya, but also have to say there are much much bigger scum than these two, to blame for housing costs.

MUCH BIGGER