Democrats ramp up investigation of Kushner family business dealings
Source: WaPo
Democrats on a pair of congressional committees have launched an aggressive new effort to obtain information about whether Jared Kushners actions on U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf region as a senior White House adviser were influenced by the bailout of a property owned by his family business.
Citing previously undisclosed emails and other documents related to former president Donald Trumps son-in-law, the committees on Monday night sent letters to the State and Defense departments requesting material that they say could shed new light on whether Kushners financial conflict of interest may have led him to improperly influence U.S. tax, trade and national security policies for his own financial gain.
The letters, obtained by The Washington Post, focus on efforts by Kushner and his father, Charles Kushner, to bail out a troubled 41-story Fifth Avenue office building in New York City. The Kushner company in 2018 made a deal with a Canadian company, Brookfield Asset Management, which invested $1.2 billion for a 99-year lease. As a result, the Kushner family company avoided defaulting on a loan that was due the following year.
Democrats have long raised questions about the deal because the Qatar Investment Authority, a sovereign wealth fund, had a stake in one of Brookfields investment arms.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/07/kushner-democrats-congressional-probe-bailout/
Walleye
(31,264 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,294 posts)Everything Kushner did was to benefit himself or his family business. A few media outlets reported that whenever Kushner was in the Middle East, his brother just happened to often be there as well. And didnt he try to profit from diverting Covid equipment or tests? I just remember a lot of speculation because under his direction the government was seizing shipments of supplies and then no one ever knew what happened to them. Governor Hogan of Maryland used his Korean wife to negotiate with South Korea for a secret shipment of supplies delivered in an unmarked plane to prevent government seizure.
AZ8theist
(5,574 posts)Kushner SOLD HIM SOMETHING.
I recall a lot of executions in Saudi Arabia right after a Kushner visit. Remember Kushner's security clearance was DENIED at first. Then the treasonous pig granted him a clearance. While Kushner is a scumbag, at least he seemed better able to read the PDB than Doturd, who wasn't interested in anything that didn't mention his name.
I have NO DOUBT Kushner committed treason against this country by selling secrets to the Saudis in exchange for the 2 billion. NO DOUBT.
Hieronymus Phact
(372 posts)Seems like a good price for some nuclear secrets of "a middle eastern country".
AZ8theist
(5,574 posts)He could have got a lot more.....
TeamProg
(6,459 posts)his relatives almost immediately.
Worth 2 billion? Maybe, or maybe it was a simple bonus prize to go along with other secret info in exchange for the 2 billion.
nycbos
(6,046 posts)They mistakenly assumed people would see through the Benghazi hearings farce.
Tetrachloride
(7,963 posts)against them.
Historic NY
(37,472 posts)2naSalit
(87,209 posts)If it stays in the House.
msfiddlestix
(7,292 posts)Gonna run the table on the bogus Hunter "investigation"... very glad to hear it.
Not just for that reason but because this was always in our faces an obvious conflict of huge significance to our country.
fucking lame ass rethugs running their methed up clown shit shows.
Marthe48
(17,223 posts)such as the guilty verdict against trumpco. The corporation is guilty? The building is troubled? I read that some convervative clerk on the s.c. wrote in a case that corporations had personhood. The trump corporation is not getting hauled off to jail. People are. The building isn't troubled, the kushner management of the building is troubled.Let's use direct objects when we're talking about people suspected, accused or convicted of committing crimes.
I hope the Congressional committees act soon, because when the r's take charge, they will disappear as much of the investations against theire traitor leader as they can. I hope they either pass their information and investigation onto the Senate. Or directly to Jack Smith.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,485 posts)By the time the relevant agencies are done dragging their feet and cough up the docs, the GOP will be in charge and they will just burn the files.
childfreebychoice
(476 posts)Farther
(150 posts)one of the committees is the senate finance committee with Sen Wyden in charge. It will continue.
LetMyPeopleVote
(146,402 posts)flying_wahini
(6,776 posts)State Dept.? Couldnt he be sympathetic to TFG and overlook or bury something?
How hard would it be to actually hide incriminating material?
lefthandedskyhook
(967 posts)It deserves a very long sentence
HardPort
(1,474 posts)If you made this shit up no one would believe you.
llashram
(6,265 posts)all of them
Joinfortmill
(14,609 posts)Traildogbob
(8,958 posts)Some answering to do as well. There could be some nauseating pix of him and his Ho on a laptop as well. 🤮🤮🤮🤮😵?💫😵?💫😵?💫😵?💫. Have no desire to see, but the Mooks on Stephanie Miller today said Hunters pox show he is blessed. Maybe Jr and his inherited mushroom cap are in a jealous rage.
Kush and Princess were IN the Whitehouse profiting off of it. This needs to be front and center. Hunter stole nothing from me and my taxes. The Kush family and trump spawn did. Period.
KPN
(15,697 posts)23 months. But its great to see our leaders playing hardball better than the Rs these days and once again by taking this step. Hunters laptop is imaginary and meaningless in comparison to Kushners $2.1 billion.