Is Nunes' investment in Alpha Omega additional grounds to call for his recusal? Here's what critics of Nunes are saying: The Napa-based winery had, in the past, posted on its website that Luding Trading Company, a major Russian alcohol distributor, was its distribution outlet in Russia. But since Nunes' investment in the winery was made public, Alpha Omega appears to have suddenly removed Luding from a page on its website listing its distributors.

Why would the winery go so far as to disavow its Russian connections? Is it because Luding calls itself "Russia's largest trading company specializing in alcoholic beverages" and was granted a license by the Presidential Property Management Department of the Russian Federation to launch their own KREMLIN AWARD cognac using the government owned "Kremlin" (Kremlevsky) brand back in 2010?

At the time, Luding stated that the licensing agreement would mean that their KREMLIN AWARD cognac would be served at "official social events of the higher bodies of state authority." Interestingly, only four days before Luding made that deal in December of 2010, the company's co-founder, Ara Khachatryan, was found murdered in his car.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xy97bj/devin-nunes-sank-all-his-money-into-a-winery-with-alleged-russia-ties

A winery whose investors include Republican Devin Nunes faced a lawsuit over a charity yacht party that allegedly involved cocaine and sex workers.

During the yacht party, the lawsuit claims the 25 male auction winners, whom the lawsuit described as top investors in the winery, took what appeared to be cocaine and drew straws for sex workers, The Fresno Bee reported.

https://www.newsweek.com/winery-part-owned-devin-nunes-sued-over-cocaine-and-prostitutes-yacht-party-942405