Kushner makes a statement at the White House, after closed-door testimony on Russia to the Senate Intelligence Committee last July. The family business dealings aren’t the end of Jared’s woes: In special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election, Kushner’s name just keeps coming up.
The Kushners have spent much of the past few years trying to get wealthy foreigners to finance an expensive redevelopment plan for the property — but so far, all those efforts have failed. The 37-year-old presidential son-in-law has not been officially accused of anything.
Questionable investors: One major and, until last year, secret investor in Kushner Companies projects is Raz Steinmetz, the nephew of controversial Israeli diamond mogul Beny Steinmetz, the Times’s Jesse Drucker revealed.
2) Jared oversaw the Trump campaign’s digital operation: Mueller’s team is reportedly looking into whether anyone on Trump’s digital team collaborated with Russian cyber operatives and bots who targeted voters in key areas with propaganda. And it was Kushner who oversaw that digital operation ( picking Brad Parscale to run it).
Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort met with a Russian lawyer shortly after Donald Trump won the Republican nomination, it has emerged, in what appears to be the earliest known private meeting between key aides to the president and a Russian.
Donald Trump Jr, unlike Jared Kushner, does not serve in the administration and is not required to disclose his foreign contacts Photograph: ddp USA/REX/Shutterstock. Donald Trump Jr, unlike Jared Kushner, does not serve in the administration and is not required to disclose his foreign contacts Photograph: ddp USA/REX/Shutterstock.
A New York Times investigative reporter takes you through the twists and turns of uncovering the details of a secretive meeting.
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Kushner confirmed the meeting after The Times approached them with information about it. In a statement, Donald Jr. described the meeting as primarily about an adoption program. The statement did not address whether the presidential campaign was discussed.
In an interview, Mr. Corallo explained that Ms. Veselnitskaya, in her anti-Magnitsky campaign, employs a private investigator whose firm, Fusion GPS , produced an intelligence dossier that contained unproven allegations against the president.
To critics of Mr. Putin, Mr. Magnitsky, in death, became a symbol of corruption and brutality in the Russian state. An infuriated Mr. Putin has called the law an “outrageous act,” and, in addition to banning American adoptions, compiled what became known as an “anti-Magnitsky” blacklist of United States citizens.
In a civil forfeiture case prosecuted by Mr. Bharara’s office, the Justice Department alleged that Prevezon had helped launder money tied to a $230 million corruption scheme exposed by Mr. Magnitsky by parking it in New York real estate and bank accounts. As a result, the government froze $14 million of its assets.
Two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination last year, his eldest son arranged a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan with a Russian lawyer who has connections to the Kremlin, according to confidential government records described to The New York Times. The previously unreported meeting was also attended by Mr.
Robert S. Mueller III, a former F.B.I. director, was then appointed as special counsel. The status of Mr. Mueller’s investigation is not clear, but he has assembled a veteran team of prosecutors and agents to dig into any possible collusion. Advertisement.
Among those blacklisted was Preet Bharara, then the United States attorney in Manhattan, who led high-profile convictions of Russian arms and drug dealers. Mr. Bharara was abruptly fired in March, after previously being asked to stay on by Mr. Trump.
And for now, Jared continues to hold his high-level White House job, in which he is tasked with , among other things , making peace in the Middle East. Still, on the political, legal, and business fronts, Kushner’s future looks cloudier by the day.
He stepped down from his official role at Kushner Companies, but he kept most of his interest in it and his real estate holdings. (He did sell some real estate assets and the Observer, but just to a family trust controlled by his mother.)
Also in December, Kushner, who, like his father-in-law, hails from the real estate world, met with the head of a Russian state-run bank. The explanations given for the meeting by the White House and the Kremlin conflicted, according to t he Post.
Jared Kushner. The latest news came Monday from the president's senior adviser Kushner , who had an 11-page statement prepared before giving testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, The Washington Post reported. In the statement, Kushner defended his meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and three others.
The White House would later say that Flynn and Kislyak had been in contact to set up a call between Trump and Putin, as well as Flynn expressing condolences for the Russians killed in a plane crash in December and a conference in Syria regarding ISIS.
claimed the meeting's topic was adoption policy, but eventually he released an email chain that showed he knew that the purpose of the meeting was to receive information about Clinton from the Russian government. He has since said he thinks he could have handled things differently.
Along with meeting Kislyak with Kushner, Flynn also exchanged calls and text messages with the ambassador in December. The Post first reported that the two had discussed sanctions put in place by former President Barack Obama, though Flynn did not disclose that information to Vice President Mike Pence. Flynn resigned in February.
In early June 2016, the president's eldest child and son set up a meeting with a Russian lawyer and six others, including Kushner and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort, in order to receive possible opposition research incriminating Democrat Hillary Clinton, The New York Times reported in a series of stories.
The embattled Sessions, who has been chastised by Trump for recusing himself from the justice investigation, met with Kislyak twice last year after he had been tapped by Trump as a senior foreign policy adviser. Sessions failed to disclose the meetings during his Senate confirmation hearings , but in testimony last month vehemently denied discussing anything involving the campaign with Kislyak.