Tag: Affinity (law)

Now, with his son newly installed as a top aide to the president, Kushner even expressed hope, one close family friend said, that he might receive a pardon. Absolution, however, is not what the White House has conferred on the Kushners. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are studying whether one of Kushner's daughters dangled White House influence before prospective Chinese investors. Most recently, the head of the federal Office of Government Ethics informed a House member in a letter that he had asked the White House counsel to examine meetings in the White House last year between Jared Kushner and officials from two financial companies. That Josh Kushner, 32, has made no secret of the fact that he did not vote for Trump upset his brother, several friends said. "We are actively involved in more than US$3 billion of projects and banks are providing US$1.5 billion of financing in the first six months of this year," he said. Josh Kushner, who runs the investment firm Thrive Capital, which recently raised a US$700 million fund, cleared the meeting with outside counsel beforehand, his spokesman said. Charles Kushner says he is willing to buy out his partner, but some business associates say that would only double an already money-losing real estate bet. She added that her brother had left the firm to work in the Trump administration. "My daughter, our company, did nothing wrong," he said.