From the way I understand it art and art forgery is an easy and old money laundering operation and scam. Paintings are cheap to make, maybe $500 or less, so the art is made cheap and quick and is bought cheaply by an "investor" from the artist, then a "critic" talks up the artist (both are usually a member of the communist party) and his work so the art is deemed "important" as "socially conscience" even if it's crap, and then it is sold at a high price to a foreign buyer also of the communist party or just some dupe, the money is kicked back to the artist through group "endowments" (often government endowments or endowments established by communist party leaders a hundred years ago) and through individual "patrons" that support the artist. Because an actual item was purchased large amounts of money can be shifted from one person or country to another and the money is "clean." And so politicians and crime lords can use the art community as a way to move large sums of money around. Real art has value but it isn't worth millions of dollars. It just isn't. Especially not modern art and that's what is usually being sold for lots of money. And from my research it seems that forgeries can be more profitable than modern art. A decent artist makes a copy of an old piece or something like one he's seen so it that would qualify as a newly discovered work by an old artist, and art "experts" are called in to verify it, those experts are paid off to verify the work, and "official" art catalogues of old artists are forged and inserted into old libraries so the books look like contain a record or photo of the work as having existed, and those books and experts are used to grant legitimacy to the piece, the stamps and stickers from auction houses can be forged or somebody there can be bribed to stamp the piece so that it looks like it's passed through legitimate sale through auction houses a long time ago, and somebody is sold a fake piece, or maybe even with their knowledge just so the piece held onto for a while and then sold for big profit to a dupe. Youtube has documentaries about John Myatt case and Eric Hebborn and "hot art" that explains how it's done. Word has it Myatt's partner was using their scam to raise money for OPs, but that was never confirmed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/business/imf-trial-christine-lagarde-france-verdict.html

IMF head Christine LaGarde was just convicted on corruption charges a few weeks ago...

There is a big invoice in Wikileaks for Podesta to pay for art.

I just realized that your article doesn't highlight that this illegal poker empire s run out of The Trump Tower.

Tony and John talk about the process of art donation. Tony forwarded an interesting article to John. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/14271 What You Need to Know Before Donating Art

Just wanna say that the DSK scandal about prostitutes is probably real but that maid thing was a hack job to ruin DSK. I was following the subject very closely back then.

That "maid" lied in front of jury, changed her story many times, her fiance was in prison, she got shady deposits in her bank account never explained, her past in guinea was lied about, etc. It was a job to remove DSK from power because they had no control on him and it worked. It forced him to resign even if it wasn't true and now the IMF has their puppet in place.

here's what I mean:

One issue was her constantly changing story about what she did immediately after the alleged attack, ranging from hiding fearfully in a corridor to returning to the room to clean after Strauss-Kahn left.

Most seriously, Diallo admitted that she had entirely made up a story during her asylum application to the United States about being gang-raped in Guinea.

During one session with prosecutors, she repeated the story with so much emotion that "she cried, spoke hesitatingly, and... even laid her head face down on a table in front of her."

Later, she said "she had entirely fabricated the attack".

Anyway, paying prostitutes for sex, i don't see that as a big problem if both parties are doing it willingly.

For the rest. Yeah, paintings have been used to launder money for a long time. Same with small luxury products like diamonds, watches, etc.

Yet another instance of a valuless commodity being used to aid power. Art has subjective value, but you get a few well connected fashionistas behind it and its a money launderer's wet dream. The power they have is there because we recognize it as such. The fiat/plastic in your wallet is another great example.

This is AMAZING! Just got back from the cabin and I am going to make art to talk about Pizzagate. I am not an artist but since the people involved in pizzagate make such bad art, I feel empowered. The art part fascinates me (because the morbid side of pizzagate is traumatizing me).

As a side note, I just got RSS notification of this blog: https://advertorialmag.wordpress.com/

What is odd is that the modern art video included was posted today. So I am not sure if this person knows the people involved (she seems to run in the same circles) or is trolling. She seems to be a 'failed artist' or someone who wants to make fun of the Washington scene. But she points at art and interesting things within the world. She hasn't answered my message sent last month.

ETA: I made a deviant art http://kansasjake.deviantart.com/ and I submitted it to ADVERTORIALmag as well. Hopefully people share it on social media.

there absolutely appears to be a link between the art/auction/museum/real-estate pieces of the alefantis/brock/sotheby's/podesta puzzle, but your post doesn't come close to linking anything new, and none of your links are archived.

If you're serious about this investigation - dig up leads specific to the identified players, and post archival links instead of direct links.

if you're not, posts like this devalue the work already done.

Excellent Post !! I believe James Alefantis is the salesman and Comet is(was) the showroom for the product ( children ). Patrons browse the inventory, select their merchandise, and then head over to J'amie l'enfants gallery to buy some pile of shit painting at highly inflated prices ( the price of the child, which is actually PRICELESS ). Surf through evil Jimmy Comet's IG page, click on the people who follow and like his posts and you will find quite a network of horribly ill talented hacks and their crappy, crayon like 'art' with a predominate Satanist themes. Most of these people are Satanists, for sure ( the 666 tattoos are a tip off ). This is the steady supply that hangs in his gallery of horrors where the money laundering occurs.

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