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He built a $24 million mansion along the Potomac. Then he lost it to foreclosure.
MSN Washington Post ^ | June 18, 2016

Posted on 06/19/2016 8:24:08 AM PDT by SMGFan

The enormous mansion in Northern Virginia was built as a monument to Rodney P. Hunt’s success, a trophy estate along the Potomac River to mark his rise from teen lawn mowing hustler to government contracting multimillionaire.

But on Thursday, the home on Chain Bridge Road in McLean — valued at $24.5 million — was auctioned on the steps of the Arlington County courthouse for $7.3 million to an undisclosed buyer in one of the region’s largest foreclosure sales.

Hunt, 55, who had staved off foreclosure for several years amid massive debts, drug charges and bankruptcy proceedings, had finally suffered the ultimate reversal of his fortunes.

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To: pepsionice

I’d wanted to go to Woodstock, but I was only 15 and my parents said no way.

Funny thing is, I remember reading in the newspapers at the time how it was a disaster with all the mud and rain.


21 posted on 06/19/2016 9:14:40 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: SMGFan

With the real estate market being what it is in the DC metro, I’d think he could have sold it but he probably owed more than it would fetch even there.


22 posted on 06/19/2016 9:15:57 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Dilbert San Diego

There was no criminal action, but it would not be hard to prove damages in a civil court. He could demonstrate that her promise to him was the proximate cause of his quitting his job, and that doing so caused him financial loss.


23 posted on 06/19/2016 9:16:22 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Vigilanteman

So what happened? Did you not actually get the offer or did you turn it down?


24 posted on 06/19/2016 9:18:23 AM PDT by Aria (2016: The gravy train v Donald Trump)
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To: Laslo Fripp

“There were less than 9000 people there!”

My brother was one of them.

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25 posted on 06/19/2016 9:19:10 AM PDT by Mears (Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
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To: SMGFan

Many higher end homes in CA are purchased by Muslims and assorted foreigners of every description possible. Most of the American middle class could never afford it.


26 posted on 06/19/2016 9:19:59 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: COBOL2Java
I’d wanted to go to Woodstock, but I was only 15 and my parents said no way.

Funny thing is, I remember reading in the newspapers at the time how it was a disaster with all the mud and rain.

I had a roommate in college that was a child and went with his parents who were grad students at Syracuse.

He was 5 or 6 and a hippie just a few feet away dropped his pants and pooped. He was rather shocked but when you realize there were virtually no toilet facilities, what do you do?

Most of the bands weren't very good either, only the best acts made the movie and most of that is pretty awful.

The movie also doesn't show that the concert smelled like an open sewer.

27 posted on 06/19/2016 9:21:39 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Fraud


28 posted on 06/19/2016 9:31:20 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Fraud, right? She entered a contract with him under false pretenses (she misrepresentated her position as well as her authority to offer him a job) and it cost him money when he quit the job he had.


29 posted on 06/19/2016 9:41:06 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Moonman62

And just like on the television show, Chopped, the blacks are the first ones to go down!


30 posted on 06/19/2016 9:41:11 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: SMGFan

As I thought, he’s a Democrat.

He got a billion dollar contract with the Energy Dept.

And according to a story in 2012 in the WaPo:


In the “Teen Cribs” episode, which aired on MTV in early 2010, Bradley Hunt [his son], now 20, pointed to a dining room chair and said it was the one Barack Obama had used at a fundraiser at the house. In 2008, Hunt donated $4,600 to Obama and $26,200 to the Democratic National Committee.

But a spokeswoman for Obama’s reelection campaign said she couldn’t find any record that Hunt had hosted a fundraiser for him in 2008 or 2009. A spokesman for the DNC did not respond to requests for comment. Bradley Hunt also did not respond to repeated efforts to reach him by e-mail and through Twitter.


31 posted on 06/19/2016 9:51:04 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: pepsionice

Aaacckk! I know her!


32 posted on 06/19/2016 9:52:08 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: tenthirteen

Hubby is a Vietnam vet. Never, ever talks about it. Never has. Most people don’t even know he was a Green Beret (before they became Special Forces).


33 posted on 06/19/2016 9:59:53 AM PDT by sheana
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To: COBOL2Java

I think 90-percent of those who attended Woodstock don’t remember the wind or rain.

Last weekend in Germany....we had similar deal with a rock fest (3-days)...lightning struck the crowd....71 people injured. This was on day one, with more rain and lightning predicted for rest of weekend. So you’d expect the organizers to shut the thing down. But no....they kept the thing going. If you asked folks about the 71 people struck....they don’t remember much of anything....too drunk or doped-up.


34 posted on 06/19/2016 10:06:51 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

Washington DC is loaded with liars. Its just that kind of town.


35 posted on 06/19/2016 10:28:26 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: pepsionice

Back in my drinking days, I met a number of guys on bar stools who claimed to be ex-SEALS. None of them was Jesse Ventura.


36 posted on 06/19/2016 10:36:11 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Vigilanteman

Actually it depends on the job you are interviewing for.

And plenty that have signed the confidentiality agreements, upon the ending of their job, are then allowed to use on their resumes and tell faily they worked there. Not specifics, but acknowledgement and vague general terms.

It just depends what you did.


37 posted on 06/19/2016 10:41:56 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: wrench
I have little doubt if he got the job or not.

Huh?

38 posted on 06/19/2016 11:05:00 AM PDT by 386wt (Let's ban the word "meme" for a while.)
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To: Vigilanteman

“One states that you will never reveal your employment with the agency even to family.”

You must have been going after a special position.


39 posted on 06/19/2016 11:05:13 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I just realized I was born exactly 9 months after Woodstock...hmmm.


40 posted on 06/19/2016 11:22:40 AM PDT by lacrew
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