The New Yorker:

On Sunday evening, the Guardian revealed that Sean Hannity, the most famous TV host still employed by Fox News, has a “real estate portfolio of remarkable scale.” Hannity was recently unmasked as the “mystery client” of the Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who is under criminal investigation in the Southern District of New York. Hannity maintains that he only talked to Cohen about real estate. According to public records obtained by the Guardian, some of which I have also reviewed, Hannity is linked—in many cases, if not all, as an owner—to shell companies that spent at least ninety million dollars in the past decade on more than eight hundred and seventy homes in seven states: some of them mansions, others low-income rentals purchased with support from the U.S. Department for Housing and Urban Development. One of those states is Georgia, where Hannity, now fifty-six, established his conservative-media bona fides in radio before jumping to television. Among other holdings there, Hannity owns Hampton Place Apartments, a hundred-and-fifty-two-unit development in Perry, a small town in the middle of the state, which I visited on Monday afternoon.

As I drove south from Atlanta, I called Scott Free, a real-estate broker who has worked the commercial and residential market in the Perry area for three decades. “I thought I knew every owner in Perry and Houston County,” Free told me. “And, at one time, I owned the subdivision that backed up to that very property you’re telling me Hannity owns.” He paused. “Must be a shell entity he’s a part of.” Later, I reviewed the records, which showed that SPMK XVI Hampton L.L.C. bought the nearly seventeen-acre property, in 2014. (SPMK, which is based in Kennesaw, Georgia, combines the initials of Hannity and his children’s first names.) 

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