U.S. Taxpayers Forced to Pay Bills on Seized Russian Yachts

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, U.S. taxpayers are paying an estimated $28,000 a week to keep mold out a yacht seized from a sanctioned Russian billionaire—and an additional $2,000 a day in fuel to run the air-conditioning! You can read the full report here: https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/taxpayers-stuck-paying-the-bills-for-oligarchs-seized-yachts-and-mansions-afd442e4
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0:00.0	W-P-H-D-W-H-D-W-O-G-L-H-D-D-3, Philadelphia, from the Cheerio Volos studios, where relationships matter.
0:09.6	Always live, on the free Odyssey app, the Revolution, will be brought to destruction.
0:17.0	This dish is the next generation of talk.
0:20.5	Now, on Talk Radio 1210 W-P-H-D, Rich Zioly.
0:26.5	All those seized Russian yachts and mansions.
0:30.0	Guess who's paying for them kids? You are. We are. I am. We are.
0:35.5	Welcome back to the show. Glad you're here today.
0:37.5	855-839-1210 on Twitter at Rich Zioly.
0:41.5	I know you're getting ready for the Eagles game tonight.
0:43.5	Monday night football, fire it up.
0:45.5	715 kickoff. We'll have you out of here in time. Don't you worry about it.
0:50.5	We will not be going late tonight.
0:51.5	I promise you the great one, Mark, will then, of course, coming on at 7 o'clock tonight.
0:55.5	Before I get into some of the news of the day today, I just, I had to share this from you.
1:00.0	I saw this story in the Wall Street Journal today, and it just blew my mind.
1:03.5	Taxpayers are stuck paying the bills for the oligarch seized yachts and mansions.
1:08.5	As it's taken from sanctioned Russian billionaires are costly to maintain
1:12.5	as legal hurdles hold up sales.
1:15.5	For example, $28,000 a week to keep mold out of the Alpha Nero, which is one of the big yachts.
1:24.5	So they talk about the Alpha Nero.
1:27.5	It's a 270-foot mega yacht.
1:30.5	Just a little bit bigger than Bob's yacht at the Grand Hotel of Cape May.
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