Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner questioned over $1.15bn mortgage

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One of the most respected and qualified White House advisors doubling as mideast peace maker, Jared Kushner, is now being criticized in parts of media. Until now he seemed to have been treated with kids gloves mostly.


Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner questioned over $1.15bn mortgage

Democrats are expressing concern that Mr Trump's son-in-law is leveraging his "White House position to seek financial assistance".

Thursday 07 December 2017

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By Bethan Staton, News Reporter

Democrats have quizzed Jared Kushner over a $1.15bn (£860m) mortgage on a loss-making Manhattan property - suggesting it could pose a conflict of interest for the President's son-in-law.
A group of 13 lawmakers tabled a letter asking if financing for the property had been mentioned in talks between Mr Kushner and foreign delegates.
Kushner Companies owns at least half of 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, which in the decade since its purchase has proved a significant financial drain.
The underoccupied tower will bring expected $24m (£18m) this year, and the debt on the property is due in two years.
Mr Kushner was head of Kushner Companies until he sold the interest to a family trust earlier this year.
Before he joined the administration, he sought help from foreign investors over the troublesome tower block, meeting with South Korean and Chinese executives to discuss buy-ins.
According to Bloomberg, the company hopes to replace the 1950s office block with luxury flats, a hotel and a large shopping mall - but the grand aspirations have floundered after limited support from its partners.

In the letter to Mr Kushner, lawmakers said they were "concerned" that he may be leveraging his "White House position to seek financial assistance" for the property.
They asked whether he had discussed help for finance, purchase or debt assistance to the building with any foreign nationals or entities since the election of his father-in-law in November 2016.
Saudi Arabia, China, Israel and France were suggested as countries of interest.

This week, US media named Mr Kushner as the White House official (https://news.sky.com/story/trump-aide-michael-flynn-charged-with-lying-to-fbi-over-russia-11151540) who had directed Michael Flynn to reach out to Russia as part of an attempt to delay a UN resolution on Israeli settlements.

https://news.sky.com/story/trumps-son-in-law-jared-kushner-questioned-over-115bn-mortgage-11159915



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Kushner Is Leaving Tillerson in the Dark on Middle East Talks, Sources Say (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-01/kushner-is-said-to-leave-tillerson-in-dark-on-middle-east-talks)


Caution Graphic Language: Bill Maher called Kushner "a ****ing idiot"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahpp27WAT2M
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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGppFdlLaKI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE05NDSmafY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE05NDSmafY

Jared Kushner is wreaking havoc in the Middle East

The entire Middle East, from Palestine to Yemen, appears set to burst into flames after this week. The region was already teetering on the edge, but recent events have only made things worse. And while the mayhem should be apparent to any casual observer, what’s less obvious is Jared Kushner’s role in the chaos. Kushner is, of course, the US president’s senior advisor and son-in-law. The 36-year-old is a Harvard graduate who seems to have a hard time filling in forms correctly (https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/12/politics/jared-kushner-background-check-form/index.html).
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/09/jared-kushner-wreaking-havoc-middle-east



Muhammad bin Kushner, Jared bin Salman, Daffy Duck & Co

The problem with Daffy Duck, if you recall, is how, with his very limited mental means and compromised moral imagination, he is always trying to cover up his natural cowardice with vainglorious misadventures.
Here (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ylm6x) he is posing as a fast-drawing gunslinger pulling his guns to threaten some big men playing poker in a saloon - unaware he has actually pulled down his own pants and exposed his colourful underwear.

The same is with the two rich daddy's boys - Jared Kushner and Mohammed bin Salman - who are now so intertwined we get their names mixed up as they are committing war crimes in Yemen, throwing the Palestinian cause under the bus, reforming Islam Israeli-style, causing mayhem in Lebanon (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/coming-grips-fear-war-lebanon-171118100917115.html), and hope to begin bombing Iran and to invade with the last American soldier their petrodollars and AIPAC lobby can buy.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/muhammad-bin-kushner-jared-bin-salman-daffy-duck-171203092338779.html


“Morning Joe” co-hosts claim that the White House (Kushner) attempted to blackmail the morning show
https://www.thewrap.com/jared-kushner-told-morning-joe-to-apologize-to-trump-report/

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Just the other day I asked for a loan of a mere 10 million Euro... the bank not only refused, but called me insane.


Around the time Trump received the Republican nomination, Kushner’s firm began negotiating with the Chinese Anbang Insurance Group, with ties to some of the Communist Party’s leading families about a plan to invest billions of dollars in Kushner’s office tower at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
After Donald Trump became the president elect, Anbang became even more determined to close the deal with Kushner.
They ended the talks when the deal became too controversial after weeks of negative publicity. The building had already been rescued by other prominent companies, including: Carlyle and Zara (of multibillionaire Amancio Ortega): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-business.html?_r=0


Last January, Jared Kushner stepped down from his management positions at Kushner Companies, a family-run real estate investment firm that has taken part in more than $7 billion of acquisitions over the past decade. Jared will remain a beneficiary of the business, through a series of trusts that own the various real estate companies. The worth of this estate and investment business is estimated at $740 million.
Jared Kushner didn’t disclose information on his business partners or lenders to his projects. His real estate firm has borrowed money from amongst others: the Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Natixis bank (France), and Hapoalim (Israel’s largest bank).

The CEO of the private equity giant Blackstone Group (one of the corporations of Baron Jacob Rothschild) Stephen A. Schwarzman, has become an economic adviser to Donald Trump and chairman of the “Strategic and Policy Forum”.
Kushner is also partners in crime with BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. BlackRock was founded in 1988 as part of the Blackstone Group. According to the state media BlackRock is independent from Blackstone since 1995. The founder and CEO of BlackRock is Larry Fink.

Gary D. Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs, now heads the National Economic Council. Cohn’s net worth is valued between $253 million and $611 million, and his income last year was $77 million: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/us/politics/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushner-still-benefiting-from-business-empire-filings-show.html?_r=0


George Soros was involved with Trump in a bankruptcy fraud with the General Motors building in New York.
Soros (together with Goldman Sachs and Peter Thiel) funded the Cadre investment firm of Jared Kushner. The family office of George Soros financed Cadre with $250 million in early 2015. Kushner resigned from Cadre's board, assigned his voting rights and “reduced his ownership”.

Kushner “forgot” to disclose that he is indebted for more than 1 billion dollar from 20 investors, including Blackstone Group, Bank of America, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland.
According to Kushner’s lawyer, Jamie Gorelick, Jared’s actions are “very normal” and Kushner’s stake in Cadre was disclosed, under the umbrella of BFPS Ventures LLC:
https://www.businessinsider.nl/jared-kushner-ties-george-soros-goldman-sachs-peter-thiel-1-billion-loan-2017-5/?international=true&r=US


Special cover-up artist Robert Mueller has been involved in an impressive amount of cover-ups, including the Lockerbie bombing, Franklin credit union, and he was selected by George W. Bush as FBI-director a week before 9/11...

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To be fair, you don't have same kind of political connections though.

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Just the other day I asked for a loan of a mere 10 million Euro... the bank not only refused, but called me insane.


Around the time Trump received the Republican nomination, Kushner’s firm began negotiating with the Chinese Anbang Insurance Group, with ties to some of the Communist Party’s leading families about a plan to invest billions of dollars in Kushner’s office tower at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
After Donald Trump became the president elect, Anbang became even more determined to close the deal with Kushner.
They ended the talks when the deal became too controversial after weeks of negative publicity. The building had already been rescued by other prominent companies, including: Carlyle and Zara (of multibillionaire Amancio Ortega): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-business.html?_r=0


Last January, Jared Kushner stepped down from his management positions at Kushner Companies, a family-run real estate investment firm that has taken part in more than $7 billion of acquisitions over the past decade. Jared will remain a beneficiary of the business, through a series of trusts that own the various real estate companies. The worth of this estate and investment business is estimated at $740 million.
Jared Kushner didn’t disclose information on his business partners or lenders to his projects. His real estate firm has borrowed money from amongst others: the Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Natixis bank (France), and Hapoalim (Israel’s largest bank).

The CEO of the private equity giant Blackstone Group (one of the corporations of Baron Jacob Rothschild) Stephen A. Schwarzman, has become an economic adviser to Donald Trump and chairman of the “Strategic and Policy Forum”.
Kushner is also partners in crime with BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. BlackRock was founded in 1988 as part of the Blackstone Group. According to the state media BlackRock is independent from Blackstone since 1995. The founder and CEO of BlackRock is Larry Fink.

Gary D. Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs, now heads the National Economic Council. Cohn’s net worth is valued between $253 million and $611 million, and his income last year was $77 million: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/us/politics/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushner-still-benefiting-from-business-empire-filings-show.html?_r=0


George Soros was involved with Trump in a bankruptcy fraud with the General Motors building in New York.
Soros (together with Goldman Sachs and Peter Thiel) funded the Cadre investment firm of Jared Kushner. The family office of George Soros financed Cadre with $250 million in early 2015. Kushner resigned from Cadre's board, assigned his voting rights and “reduced his ownership”.

Kushner “forgot” to disclose that he is indebted for more than 1 billion dollar from 20 investors, including Blackstone Group, Bank of America, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland.
According to Kushner’s lawyer, Jamie Gorelick, Jared’s actions are “very normal” and Kushner’s stake in Cadre was disclosed, under the umbrella of BFPS Ventures LLC:
https://www.businessinsider.nl/jared-kushner-ties-george-soros-goldman-sachs-peter-thiel-1-billion-loan-2017-5/?international=true&r=US


Special cover-up artist Robert Mueller has been involved in an impressive amount of cover-ups, including the Lockerbie bombing, Franklin credit union, and he was selected by George W. Bush as FBI-director a week before 9/11...
MAGA Christmas!

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Very unsettling that he wanted 666 so bad he overpaid for it.

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Very unsettling that he wanted 666 so bad he overpaid for it.

Bill Maher analyzed his business deals and made some very disrespectful statements about him.

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To be fair, you don't have same kind of political connections though. Maybe after starting court cases against the Dutch ABN AMRO bank (afiliated with the Dutch Royal family), at the Dutch supreme courts Raad van State and Hoge Raad and the ECHR, some of these pieces of sh*t know my name...

Since 2013, the Blackstone Group has loaned more than $400 million to finance 4 Kushner Cos deals - 2 of which weren’t reported.
1. In June 2013, Kushner and Los Angeles-based CIM Group, bought an office building in Manhattan. They reported a $88 million loan from Deutsche Bank AG, but forgot to mention that Blackstone was also among the project’s lenders. CIM and Kushner repaid the loan in full in March 2016 after the property was sold for roughly $225 million.
2. In October 2013, Kushner Cos purchased 5 Jehovah’s Witnesses buildings aided with a $249 million loan from Natixis Real Estate Capital. Kushner again “forgot “to disclose that Blackstone was amongst the lenders.

That Kushner made a $110 billion deal between Saudi Arabia and Lockheed Martin got some attention from the media.
But I missed the news that Saudi Arabia also made a $20 billion investment in a US infrastructure fund managed by Blackstone…

CEO and co-founder of Blackstone and member of Skull & Bones, Stephen Schwarzman, heads Trump’s business-advisory council and joined Donald and Kushner on their trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi promise to invest in Blackstone’s fund drove the Blackstone’s stock up more than 8%. Thanks to the Saudi boost, Blackstone shares are once again above their IPO price of $31 after slumping two years ago.
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As a result of the rise of his shares, Schwarzman has gained about $500 million net. How’s that for a return in the loans/investment in Kushner Cos...

In 2010, Ivanka Trump invested in a Blackstone fund.
To make it more confusing, for people who don´t believe that Donald Trump effectively belongs to the same party as Clinton, Jon Gray, Blackstone’s global head of real estate, met with Trump when he was talking to candidates for Treasury secretary. Gray publicly supported Hillary Clinton: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-26/the-kushners-the-saudis-and-blackstone-behind-the-recent-deals
(archived here: http://archive.is/1ObCe)

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That is pretty interesting report from Bloomberg.


In related news:



Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner sued over financial disclosures
By JOSH GERSTEIN

12/17/2017



First daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump and her husband and fellow White House adviser Jared Kushner were hit with a lawsuit Sunday alleging illegal omissions on their public financial disclosure forms.

Washington lawyer Jeffrey Lovitky contends that Trump and Kushner failed to identify the assets owned by 30 investment funds the couple had stakes in. The complaint (https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000160-6756-dcd4-a96b-777f3f740001) filed in U.S. District Court in Washington also claims the couple should have declared the value of and income they derived from two investment vehicles, but did not.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/17/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-sued-financial-disclosures-302240

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With 'friends' like these:

Christie Endorses Mueller to Annoy Kushner

By Ben Mathis-Lilley
Dec. 19, 2017, 5:24 PM

Jared Kushner, Chris Christie, and Donald Trump at the White House on March 29.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters


Chris Christie! He was almost Trump’s running mate, almost in charge of the presidential transition, almost not the most unpopular governor in the history of governing … he was almost a lot of things. One thing he didn’t almost do, though, was put Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s father Charles in jail when Christie was a U.S. attorney and Charles hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law for the purposes of blackmail (http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/9874/). Chris Christie definitely did do that, which is likely part of why he never seems to get those choice gigs with the administration that Jared Kushner now works for. And also why he, unlike a lot of other pro-Trump Republicans these days, seems to think Robert Mueller is doing a great job investigating certain high-level administration figures (https://www.google.com/search?q=mueller+investigating+kushner&oq=mueller+investigating+kushner&aqs=chrome..69i57.7704j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8):


Deadline White House‏Verified account @DeadlineWH
"As I've said (Bob Mueller) is an honest guy. I believe he will do an honest, fair investigation" - Chris Christie tells @jheil w/ nicolleDWallace on #DeadlineWH
1:45 PM - 19 Dec 2017


Ken Dilanian ✔ @kendil (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/member.php?u=62130)anianNBC
Christie: Jared Kushner deserves law enforcement scrutiny "because he was involved in meetings that call into question his role."

4:49 PM - Dec 19, 2017
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/12/trump-impeachment-chances-christie-kushner-edition.html

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One thing he didn’t almost do, though, was put Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s father Charles in jail when Christie was a U.S. attorney and Charles hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law for the purposes of blackmail (http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/9874/). Chris Christie definitely did do that, which is likely part of why he never seems to get those choice gigs with the administration that Jared Kushner now works for.

From 1996 to 2004, Jared’s father, Charlie Kushner, gave more than $1.4 million to Democratic politicians.
Charlie paid $125,000 to Bill Clinton for speech at the bank that Kushner Companies owned. After Hillary Clinton won the Senate race in 2000, she visited the Kushners’ house.

A month after James McGreevey was inaugurated as Governor of New Jersey, Charlie Kushner was nominated for chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which would have put him in charge of the billions of dollars for rebuilding the WTC.
Charlie Kushner was in a vicious court case against his brother-in-law, Billy Schulder. He hired a prostitute to seduce Schulder so he could make a video of the sex act. Kushner mailed images from the tape to his sister.
McGreevey was forced to apologise for his nomination of Kushner. Months later, in 2004, he had to resign over a sex scandal of his own.

Then New Jersey US Attorney Chris Christie started an investigation into the Charlie Kushner campaign donations.
Kushner pleaded guilty to 18 counts of tax evasion, witness tampering, and illegal campaign donations. Charlie was sentenced to 2 years in prison, and spent 18 months in a federal penitentiary.

Jared Kushner, owns the New York Observer, which introduced him to Rupert Murdoch.
Kushner has acted as a liaison with dozens of influential figures, including Henry Kissinger, Paul Ryan, and Roger Ailes (founder and former CEO of Fox News): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushners-power-play

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From 1996 to 2004, Jared’s father, Charlie Kushner, gave more than $1.4 million to Democratic politicians.
Charlie paid $125,000 to Bill Clinton for speech at the bank that Kushner Companies owned. After Hillary Clinton won the Senate race in 2000, she visited the Kushners’ house.

A month after James McGreevey was inaugurated as Governor of New Jersey, Charlie Kushner was nominated for chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which would have put him in charge of the billions of dollars for rebuilding the WTC.
Charlie Kushner was in a vicious court case against his brother-in-law, Billy Schulder. He hired a prostitute to seduce Schulder so he could make a video of the sex act. Kushner mailed images from the tape to his sister.
McGreevey was forced to apologise for his nomination of Kushner. Months later, in 2004, he had to resign over a sex scandal of his own.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushners-power-play


One thing he didn’t almost do, though, was put Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s father Charles in jail when Christie was a U.S. attorney and Charles hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law for the purposes of blackmail (http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/9874/).



“Morning Joe” co-hosts claim that Jared Kushner attempted to blackmail them

Jared Kushner Told ‘Morning Joe': Apologize to Trump to Kill National Enquirer Story (Report)
Brian Flood | June 30, 2017
“Kushner told Scarborough that he would need to personally apologize to Trump in exchange for getting Enquirerowner David Pecker to stop the story,” Sherman wrote. “Scarborough says he refused, and the Enquirerpublished the story (http://www.nationalenquirer.com/photos/joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski-affair/)in print on June 5, headlined ‘Morning Joe Sleazy Cheating Scandal!'”
https://www.thewrap.com/jared-kushne...-trump-report/ (https://www.thewrap.com/jared-kushner-told-morning-joe-to-apologize-to-trump-report/)


To be fair, there is no indication that Charles Kushner tried to blackmail then NJ governor for any Israeli settlers/banking interests even if he reportedly introduced the governor to his Israeli 'gay lover' who later threatened the governor with 'sexual harassment' and in the end brought down his governorship.


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Jared Kushner, Shanda

How the scion of one tri-state crime family married into another, in a story equal parts ‘Sopranos’ and ‘Game of Thrones.’

By James Kirchick


Charles Kushner seemed to have an insatiable appetite for money and power and recognized the role politics played at the nexus of both. To maximize his influence, Kushner circumvented federal campaign finance laws by funneling money to candidates and elected officials with donations made in the names of other people and through the more than 100 separate real-estate development partnerships he controlled. In one of this already absurd campaign’s more novelistic ironies, Kushner’s dirty dealings caught the attention of a young, ambitious federal prosecutor named Chris Christie, who opened up an investigation that called Kushner’s sister, Esther, and brother-in-law, Billy, as witnesses. Determined to prevent Billy from testifying, Charles set up a honey trap (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/19/nyregion/major-donor-admits-hiring-prostitute-to-smear-witness.html?_r=0) for his brother-in-law in a motel room—fully equipped with video cameras—and paid a prostitute $10,000. Kushner then sent a tape of the assignation to his sister, who promptly turned her brother’s attempt at blackmail over to the authorities.

Kushner was also implicated in the simultaneous downfall of his political protégé McGreevy, who became infamous for a live televised resignation during which he announced to the world that he was “a gay American.” Thanks to this cynical deflection, most today remember McGreevy as having done nothing worse than commit marital infidelity under the duress of his decision to marry a woman and live his life in the closet. But the main reason McGreevy was forced to step down from his post was that his former lover, an Israeli man named Golan Cipel whom he had put on the state payroll in a make-work job, was threatening to sue him for sexual harassment.
So, who was Golan Cipel? McGreevy had met Cipel several years earlier in Israel, and it was Charles Kushner who sponsored the young Israeli’s work visa to the United States and then generously employed Cipel in one of his companies before the governor hired him. Some speculated (http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/9874/index3.html) that Kushner, recognizing the blackmail potential of this arrangement, persuaded Cipel to threaten McGreevy with exposure. That would explain why, 10 minutes before McGreevy’s tearful confession, a lawyer representing Cipel called (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/nyregion/fallout-resignation-investigation-inquiry-said-be-focusing-plan-for-touro.html) McGreevy’s office conveying the message that the jilted lover would keep their affair secret if the governor fulfilled an odd request: grant a charter to Touro College allowing it to open a medical school in New Jersey—a medical school for which Charles Kushner had raised money and hoped to name after his late mother. (At the time, Kushner, through his lawyer, denied (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/nyregion/fallout-resignation-investigation-inquiry-said-be-focusing-plan-for-touro.html) any involvement.)

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/207559/jared-kushner-shanda




It is also disappointing that Tablet allowed Kirchick to use a-word in same article.

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Not much coming out of White House in defense of JK while he is facing criticism from various quarters lately:

Christie: Kushner 'deserves the scrutiny'

By Daniella Diaz, CNN
Wed December 20, 2017



Kushner's father was prosecuted by then-US Attorney Christie in 2004
Christie served as the head of Trump's transition team before being replaced


Washington (CNN)New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner "deserves the scrutiny" he's received during special counselor Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/20/politics/chris-christie-jared-kushner-white-house/index.html


Steve Bannon blames Jared Kushner for Trump's Russia problems: 'This tells you everything about Jared' (http://www.businessinsider.com/bannon-kushner-trump-colluded-with-russia-2017-12)
Bannon slammed Ivanka on the eve of the Alabama Senate special election. During a rally (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/12/roy-moore-alabama-steve-bannon-takes-swipe-at-ivanka-trump.html) for GOP candidate Roy Moore, Bannon used the reference “there’s a special place in hell for Republicans who should know better,” in regards to a statement Ivanka made


Actor Ron Perlman drubs ‘peacemaking slumlord Jared Kushner’ for Jerusalem move — ‘not the United States’ (https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/actor-ron-perlman-drubs-peacemaking-slumlord-jared-kushner-for-jerusalem-move-not-the-united-states/)
David Edwards
21 Dec 2017
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Sons of Anarchy actor Ron Perlman on Thursday blamed President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner for a divisive decision to declare Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

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I must admit that “billionaires” like Trump and Kushner are way too smart for a simple guy like me.
First they “loan” hundreds of millions of dollars from the bank, and when they can’t pay it back... they simply “borrow” another hundreds of millions, while being billionaires at the same time.

One of the interesting links to Trump, is Deutsche Bank, which has been reported as the only major bank that still provided credit to a liability like Donald.

In November 2008, attorney Steven Molo on behalf of Deutsche Bank, started legal action against Donald Trump because he had not returned $330 million of the $640 million he had “borrowed” in 2005. Deutsche Bank demanded an immediate $40 million from Donald, plus interest, legal fees and costs.
Donald Trump countersued, arguing that because of the economic collapse, he wasn’t obliged to pay back the “loan”. Trump further argued that Deutsche Bank owed him about $3 billion in damages.

Two years later (during which time Donald could continue playing his role as billionaire...), Trump “settled” with Deutsche Bank by repaying the “loan” with another “loan” from… Deutsche Bank. They even gave Trump another $25 million to $50 million on top of the sum needed to pay off the (first) loan.
When Trump was elected president of the United States, he owed Deutsche some $300 million.

In October 2016, Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, “loaned” another $285 million from Deutsche Bank to refinance an existing “loan” on the old New York Times building, which Kushner had “bought” the previous year from Lev Leviev.

The American Tim Wiswell by age 29 was was head of Russian equities in the Moscow officeof Deutsche Bank.
Wiswell supervised moving billions from Deutsche Bank in Moscow to Deutsche Bank in New York through offshore banks in places like Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands.
There were nearly 6,000 of such mirror trades, in which the clients bought millions of dollars worth of Russian stock, and immediately resold it to London, in exchange for dollars, pounds, or Euros.
Clients of this scheme consistently lost small amounts of money - between 0.10 and 0.15 of a percentage point per trade. The differences between Moscow and London prices of a stock worked against them, and clients had to pay Deutsche Bank a commission fee.
Nobody in Deutsche Bank seemed to care about this suspicious behaviour.

Wiswell was getting rich while this was happening.
In 2015, Wiswell’s wife received $250,000 for “financial consulting. Similar payments (as “undisclosed compensation”) were made, totalling $3.8 million. According to the DFS — a bribe.
These payments were always made in cash and delivered in a bag; Deutsche Bank in New York cleared them.
In August 2015, Wiswell was finally fired by Deutsche Bank.

About 10 days before Trump’s inauguration, the DFS — that can suspend the New York branch of any bank — fined Deutsche Bank $475 million.
London’s Financial Conduct Authority imposed another £163 million ($218 million) penalty: http://www.newsweek.com/2017/12/29/donald-trump-russia-secret-deutsche-bank-753780.html


In 2003, Ivanka revealed that Donald Trump at the beginning of the 1990s explained that a homeless beggar “has 8 billion more than me”.

I remember once, my father and I were walking down 5th Avenue, and there was a homeless person sitting right outside of Trump Tower. And I think I was probably nine, ten something like this, it was right around the time as the divorce.
And I remember my father pointing to him and saying ‘That guy has $8 billion more than me.’ Because he was in such extreme debt at that point.
And me thinking ‘What are you talking about?’ He was sitting outside of Trump Tower, and I didn’t understand. I just thought about it a year or two ago and thought it interesting. It makes me all the more proud of my parents that they got through that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCer9g-fh8o

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In 2003, Ivanka revealed that Donald Trump at the beginning of the 1990s explained that a homeless beggar “has 8 billion more than me”.


To be devil's advocate, if this is confirmed, woon't that make him a a great All American Succes story of from rags to riches..

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In 2003, Ivanka revealed that Donald Trump at the beginning of the 1990s explained that a homeless beggar “has 8 billion more than me”.To be devil's advocate, if this is confirmed, woon't that make him a a great All American Succes story of from rags to riches..
After becoming US President Donald Trump is in a position where he can continue to loan indefinitely (that’s not counting the spineless US Congress), while others have to pay for it...

In the following 1980 interview, Rona Barrett asks Donald Trump what kind of man would be a good president.
At the end of this video – 4:07 - Rona asks Donald: If you’d lose your fortune today what would you do tomorrow?
Donald answers: Maybe I’d run for president; I don’t know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAgJAxkALyc

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Mike Cernovich hints that things aren't over for Jared Kushner, there is something(s) worse forthcoming.

The video is mostly about Trump supporters in the White House who can't get security clearances (Jared and Ivanka included)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCn0K36u1hM

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Yea things are getting worse for miseast peace process activist and anti-nepotism champion:

SEC dropped probe month after firm aided Kushner company (https://nypost.com/2018/03/02/sec-dropped-probe-month-after-firm-aided-kushner-company/)

By Bob Fredericks
March 2, 2018But the timing has raised more potential conflict-of-interest questions about Kushner’s family business and his role as adviser to his father-in-law, President Trump, the Associated Press reported.

The revelation came a day after the New York Times reported (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/business/jared-kushner-apollo-citigroup-loans.html) that Apollo’s loan to the Kushner Cos. followed several meetings at the White House between the finance company’s execs and Kushner.

I suppose the best case for Kushner is that this looks absolutely terrible,” Rob Weissman, president of Public Citizen, told the AP (https://apnews.com/dcea3eecab2b478aacd70321c6ce9a91/SEC-dropped-inquiry-a-month-after-firm-aided-Kushner-company). “Without presuming that there is any kind of quid pro quo … there are a lot of ways that the fact of Apollo’s engagement with Kushner and the Kushner businesses in a public and private context might cast a shadow over what the SEC is doing and influence consciously or unconsciously how the agency acted.”
Apollo said in its 2018 annual report that the SEC had halted its inquiry into how the firm reported the financial results of its private equity funds and other costs and personnel changes.
The firm had previously reported that the SEC under the Obama administration had subpoenaed it for information related to the issue.

https://nypost.com/2018/03/02/sec-dropped-probe-month-after-firm-aided-kushner-company/

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https://nypost.com/2018/03/02/sec-dropped-probe-month-after-firm-aided-kushner-company/

What did Trump do to piss Rupert Murdoch off?

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What did Trump do to piss Rupert Murdoch off?


Not sure, WSJ also recently published multiple investigations about Trump- porn star Stormy Daniels and Peggy Peterson - Trump lawyer payment scandals.



Un-related
Sources: Murdoch Hospitalized with Serious Back Injury
vanityfair
Jan 17, 2018 - Rupert Murdoch suffered a serious back injury while vacationing on his son Lachlan's yacht in the Caribbean earlier this month, three sources familiar with the incident told Vanity Fair.

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What did Trump do to piss Rupert Murdoch off?

Not sure, WSJ also recently published multiple investigations about Trump- porn star Stormy Daniels and Peggy Peterson - Trump lawyer payment scandals. I think that just about every "scandal" story of our deaf, dumb and blind media is designed to cover-up even more damaging scandals. I find it hard to keep track on the scandals surrounding Jared Kushner and his father-in-law President Donald, because there is no end to them.
I haven't looked into it (as I don't really care if Donald has affairs), but it could be that these affairs with these porn stars is completely fake.

I never quite understood why suddenly the great ally of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and their state network Al Jazeera, became the target of a blockade...

Charles Kushner — Jared's father and the head of Kushner Companies, the family firm of which Jared remains a part-owner — discussed the refinancing of 666 Fifth Avenue with Qatari Finance Minister Ali Sharif Al Emadi about a month before the “diplomatic assault” started. They couldn’t reach an agreement.

the failure to broker the deal would be followed only a month later by a Middle Eastern diplomatic row in which Jared Kushner provided critical support to Qatar's neighbors. Led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a group of Middle Eastern countries, with Kushner's backing, led a diplomatic assault that culminated in a blockade of Qatar.

Robert Weissman, president of the watchdog group Public Citizen, thinks that Jared shouldn’t be allowed to use the US government to “negotiate” a better deal for personal gain:
Jared Kushner must resign. His business entanglements are corrupting our government and potentially endangering national security. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/03/02/kushner-must-resign-calls-intensify-trump-son-law-step-down
(archived here: http://archive.is/ybBwc)

Another nice affair is that Kushner Companies got more than $500 million in “loans” from 2 companies, shortly after meetings between Jared Kushner with high executives of those companies at the White House...

After Joshua Harris, co-founder of Apollo Global Management met Jared - in November, Apollo lent Kushner Companies $184 million to refinance a Chicago skyscraper.
After Jared met Michael Corbat, chief executive of Citigroup, last spring to discuss “financial and trade policy” - Citigroup swiftly lent Kushner Companies and another partner $325 million to finance Brooklyn office buildings.

Of course Jared is a part owner of the family corporation, but that doesn’t mean that he would try to get special benefits...
That’s what a spokesman for Jared Kushner attorney wants us to believe - Jared "has taken no part of any business, loans, or projects with or for" Kushner Companies since starting his position in the Trump administration: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/03/01/kushners-company-got-hundreds-millions-loans-after-white-house-meetings-top-execs
(archived here: http://archive.is/gTzco)

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I never quite understood why suddenly the great ally of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and their state network Al Jazeera, became the target of a blockade...

Charles Kushner — Jared's father and the head of Kushner Companies, the family firm of which Jared remains a part-owner — discussed the refinancing of 666 Fifth Avenue with Qatari Finance Minister Ali Sharif Al Emadi about a month before the “diplomatic assault” started. They couldn’t reach an agreement.


the failure to broker the deal would be followed only a month later by a Middle Eastern diplomatic row in which Jared Kushner provided critical support to Qatar's neighbors. Led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a group of Middle Eastern countries, with Kushner's backing, led a diplomatic assault that culminated in a blockade of Qatar.


Had not seen any reporting on this on Morning Joe, CNN or other MSM outlets.

BTW is this same Kushner who supported Israeli settlements and attempted to blackmail his in-law relative (not Trump) after hiring a woman (not Stormy Daniels) and recording their meeting using secret video camera?

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Had not seen any reporting on this on Morning Joe, CNN or other MSM outlets.

BTW is this same Kushner who supported Israeli settlements and attempted to blackmail his in-law relative (not Trump) after hiring a woman (not Stormy Daniels) and recording their meeting using secret video camera? I also missed all of this on Infowars, Breitbart and even the BBC...
I’ve finally found a "real" story in 3 parts with a lot of interesting information that I didn’t know yet with some excellent dot connecting. Maybe it’s too long, but I don’t think that there’s much information that’s obsolete.

Jared Kushner disclosed that he and his mother have ”loaned” up to $25 million from Deutsche Bank, but “forgot” to disclose the $285 million refinancing from Deutsche Bank in October 2016.
In 2015, Kushner’s company purchased the former New York Times Building in Times Square from an entity called Africa-Israel Investments, headed by Russian oligarch Lev Leviev.
Leviev was a business partner of the Russian Prevezon Holdings that was accused of money laundering by the DoJ. Prevezon was represented by Natalia Veselnitskaya and got off with a “slap on the wrist” of $6 million.
Leviev told the New York Times that he was a “true friend” of Vladimir Putin, largely through his work with the Moscow Jewish Museum, the Russian Jewish Congress and his close ties to Russia’s Chief Chabad Rabbi, Berel Lazar.

I had not found out yet what the 9 June 2016 meeting with attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya was all about (most media claim this was about dirt on Hillary Clinton)...
Kushner had promised to recuse himself from any case involving Deutsche Bank. It has been reported that Prevezon and its partners “loaned” $90 million from a “big European financial institution”; court records show this was Deutsche Bank.
Can we hold it against Kushner that he didn’t know that Veselnitskaya represented Prevezon Holdings in the money laundering case that also involved Deutsche Bank?
Maybe I’m the only one to think that this matter was discussed at this meeting...

Kushner also “forgot” to disclose that in December 2016 he met at Trump Tower with Sergei Gorkov, head of the sanctioned Russian bank VEB, who was trained by the FSB (the current name for the KGB).
Also in December 2016, UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nayan met Kushner and Steve Bannon in an undisclosed meeting.
On 11 January 2017, Erik Prince, brother of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, at the suggestion of Bin Zayed, met covertly with Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and formerly of Goldman Sachs, in the Seychelles. RDIF’s parent company is VEB, and both RDIF and VEB are under US sanctions. Mohammed bin Zayed and Alexander Mashkevich are also in the Seychelles at the time.
On 17 January, Anthony Scaramucci, Trump senior advisor, met head of RDIF, Kirill Dmitriev, in Davos, Switzerland. Dmitriev is also under sanctions.

Trasta Komercbanka was a Latvian-located bank that played a prominent role in the Prevezon forfeiture case and the so-called Global Laundromat. Trasta Komercbanka was co-owned by Igors Buimisters and Ivan Fursin.
Fursin is a a former member of the Russian Parliament for the “Party of Regions” and junior partner at Ukraine’s RosUkrEnergo of Dmitry Firtash. Firtash and Fursin also own the Ukrainian Nadra Bank and Misto Bank.
Fursin has also been reported as a senior figure in the Semion Mogilevich crime organisation: https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/02/01/deutsche-bank-global-bank-oligarchs-american-russian-part-3/
(archived here: http://archive.is/1ymOd)

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The video is mostly about Trump supporters in the White House who can't get security clearances (Jared and Ivanka included) Video was deleted...

When nobody was paying attention…

President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been granted a security that ensures that, in his role as White House adviser with a broad international portfolio, he has access to top secret information.

Kushner’s attorney Abbe Lowell said that Kushner's clearance was decided by career officials in the intelligence community and the FBI:
It happened the way it happens for thousands of people. There was nobody in the political process that had anything to do with it.

In April, Kushner was interviewed for a second time by the office of “special” cover-up artist Robert Mueller (the first time was last fall): https://www.fox25boston.com/news/ap-learns-kushner-now-has-a-permanent-security-clearance/755278071

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There no proof that got his clearance back just days after Embassy move as reward, probably just coincidence.

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Isn’t great that our wonderful media “forget” to connect the dots between “events”?
This leaves it to people like you and me to search for the ties that the media ignores.

Of course when you’re a little too good at this dot-connection, you MUST be labelled a nutcase “conspiracy theorists” and if you make a mistake... you MUST be ridiculed indefinitely.
Anybody that criticises any Zionist, Jew and/or Israel is a horrible anti-Semite.
I’m just glad that nobody ever puts the UAE in the spotlight.
And last but certainly not least, do NOT ever in your wildest dreams connect the dots to Rothschild and the British Royal family, especially NOT when it involves the connections to those wonderful “leaders” of the free world, Russia and Turkey – Putin and Erdogan!!!

Have you ever heard of Russian billionaire Yuri Milner?

In 2015, Milner “invested” $850,000 in the Cadre start-up in New York, owned by Jared and his brother Joshua Kushner (with a third associate). The complete group of investors (including George Soros and Peter Thiel) “invested” $50 million in the Trump in-laws.
Milner said he knew Joshua Kushner but had met Jared Kushner only once, at a conference in Aspen, Colorado, in autumn 2016.

Yuri Milner is well-connected to at least 2 Russian state-controlled companies that used him as an intermediary to invest in Facebook and Twitter that played an important role in the 2016 US presidential elections.
Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, became friends with Milner and invited him to invest in Facebook. In 2011, Zuckerberg attended Milner’s wedding in California. Milner and Zuckerberg are advisers to each other’s “philanthropic” ventures.
In 2014, Zuckerberg, Milner and Harvey Weinstein hosted an event for The imitation game.
See Yuri Milner on the far left, Mark Zuckerberg second from right and the star of the movie, Keira Knightley, in the white dress.
https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/458606834.jpg

Milner through his DST Global funds invested heavily in Twitter and Facebook for the VTB Bank and the financial arm of the state oil and gas firm Gazprom.

Gazprom's investment subsidiary is managed by Uzbek-Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov (also co-owner of Arsenal FC).
In 2009, Gazprom took control of Kanton for $920 million. In 2011, Kanton took a majority stake in DST USA II that by 2012 had bought more than 50 million shares Facebook, more than 3% of the company.
Usmanov sold the last of his Facebook holdings in September 2013 and Milner said DST Global had sold all stakes in Facebook and Twitter by 2014. Usmanov is estimated to have made more than $1 billion on his original $200 million investment.

VTB funded DST Investments 3 with $191 million, which bought 11 million Twitter shares in 2011. In 2013, the VTB-funded vehicle held a 2% stake in Twitter. According to Milner, VTB sold all of it in May 2014. The profit has been estimated at more than $240 million.
VTB has a close relationship with the Kremlin and reportedly received more state subsidies than any other Russian bank. The bank’s chairman, Andrey Kostin, is a former KGB foreign intelligence operative. VTB funded 45% of the Twitter stake.

Both VTB and Gazprom are now under US sanctions: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/russia-funded-facebook-twitter-investments-kushner-investor
(archived here: http://archive.is/dmK2t)

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In April 2017, Squire Patton Boggs announced that Trump’s long-time lawyer, Michael Cohen, was paid a $500,000 annual “alliance fee” plus commissions and given a room at its New York office.
Squire announced that the “alliance” had ended after last April FBI agents raided Michael Cohen’s room in New York.

Cohen brought in 5 clients. The only one named is the U.S. Immigration Fund, that paid Squire $370,000 in lobbying fees last year. U.S. Immigration Fund has close ties to Kushner Cos. of Jared Kushner’s family.
In 2017, U.S. Immigration Fund organised a trip to China for several Kushner Cos. officials, including Jared’s sister Nicole Meyer, to lure potential investors for towers in Jersey City, N.J. Meyer pitched investors on participating in EB-5, which provides permanent US visas to immigrants who invest $500,000.
U.S. Immigration Fund announced it had ended their association with Kushner Cos. after the negative publicity (and then hired Squire Patton Boggs)…

A few years earlier U.S. Immigration Fund partnered with Kushner Cos. on another Jersey project, raising $50 million for a luxury apartment complex that was spearheaded by Jared Kushner.
U.S. Immigration Fund CEO Nicholas Mastroianni donated $150,000 in support of Trump’s re-election. Mastroianni’s family also gave $100,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund.

AT&T Inc. admitted that in 2017 it paid Cohen’s shell company, Essential Consultants, for “insights” into the Trump administration at the time it needed government approval for an $85 billion takeover of Time Warner Inc: https://www.dowjones.com/scoops/michael-cohen-helped-lobbying-firm-land-client-with-ties-to-kushner-probe/

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“Morning Joe” co-hosts claim that Jared Kushner attempted to blackmail them

Jared Kushner Told ‘Morning Joe': Apologize to Trump to Kill National Enquirer Story (Report)
Brian Flood | June 30, 2017
“Kushner told Scarborough that he would need to personally apologize to Trump in exchange for getting Enquirerowner David Pecker to stop the story,” Sherman wrote. “Scarborough says he refused, and the Enquirerpublished the story (http://www.nationalenquirer.com/photos/joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski-affair/)in print on June 5, headlined ‘Morning Joe Sleazy Cheating Scandal!'

Media coverage of stories involving Mr. Pecker is betting bit out of control this week since he was granted immunity:

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/403570-ex-trump-doorman-releases-contract-with-national-enquirer-publisher

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Barry Diller is the chairman of the board of Expedia, and his IAC (InterActiveCorp) owns a variety of social media, dating sites, including Vimeo, Dictionary.com, Investopedia, Tinder, Match, OkCupid and Ask.fm.

Diller helped create the Fox Broadcasting Company with Jared Kushner’s and Jacob Rothschild’s good friend Rupert Murdoch.

Edgar Bronfman Jr., Michael Eisner and Chelsea Clinton are on the board of directors of IAC.
Diller has also put Chelsea Clinton on the board of another company.

Barry Diller and his wife Diane von Furstenberg are also good friends with Josh Kushner (Jared’s brother) and his supermodel fiancée Karlie Kloss.
Diller had this to say of Ivanka Trump (and the "evil character" Donald):
I mean, we were friendly.

I would sit next to her every once in a while at a dinner. And I, as everyone did, was like, ‘Oh, my God, how could this evil character have spawned such a polite, gracious person? I don’t think we feel that way now. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/style/barry-diller-iac.html


Bizarrely both Kloss and Joshua Kushner expressed their support for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/07/karlie-kloss-surprises-joshua-kushner-and-flips-off-the-paparazzi


In 2009, Jared Kushner’s Observer Media Group acquired an 80% stake in Barry Diller’s e-mail service Very Short List: https://nypost.com/2009/06/15/most-of-very-short-list-will-be-long-to-kushner/

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Grossly overpaying for 666 worked out great for him. He got Trump's attention, married his daughter, ended up as a chief Presidential advisor, and now known worldwide as a possible friend of the Antichrist. You gotta spend other people's money to make money.

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On 31 January 2006, a controlling interest in the Israel Discount Bank (IDB) was acquired by an investor group led by Matthew Bronfman (younger brother of Edgar Bronfman Jr.) - $300 million for a 26% stake, with an option on a further 25%. The deal gave Bronfman ownership of IDB's wholly owned subsidiary, the Israel Discount Bank of New York.

Regulators approved the deal after the IDB bank agreed to pay $25 million to settle a money-laundering probe of its New York unit. On 17 December 2005, the New York Times reported that some $2.2 billion of illegal funds had been transmitted from Brazil through the IDB in New York (IDBNY).

The Jerusalem Post reported on 2 November 2006, that the scale of money-laundering going on at the Israeli bank was much, much larger than the Brazil case reported in the New York Times.
A "substantial" part of $35.4 billion in third-party wire transfers during the year ended March 2005 showed traits common to laundering operations. This $35 billion of “not monitored” transactions was settled for $12 million: http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/history/zionism/news.php?q=1230169460
(archived here: http://archive.is/i6Yus)


In September 2007, it became public knowledge that the Israel Discount Bank, Israel’s third biggest bank and its US subsidiary is the largest Israeli bank outside Israel, transferred money (shekels) to the Bank of Palestine that ended up in accounts held by the Hamas Executive Force at the Palestine Islamic Bank in Gaza.
According to Israel and the US it’s illegal to transfer funds to Hamas, which they label a “terrorist” organisation.

The IDB was blatantly defended by Israeli authorities, who claimed that they couldn’t have known that the Bank of Palestine was supplying shekels to the Palestine Islamic Bank.
A senior Israeli official commented “Unbeknownst to Discount Bank, it was clearing money for the Executive Force”: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-israel-funds-exclusive/money-trail-to-hamas-begins-with-israeli-banks-idUSL0313911920070927
(archived here: http://archive.is/WJ6UO)


Jared Kushner has expanded his personal ties to Israeli financial firms as he oversees policy in the Middle East for President Donald.
Jared Kushner had an unsecured line of credit for as much as $5 million from the Bronfman controlled Israel Discount Bank in 2017. In 2018, this has jumped to a maximum of $25 million.

Kushner Cos. “loaned” another $5 million to $25 million from the Bank of America, for a deal with the Israeli Psagot Investment House. Jared and wife Ivanka Kushner was a direct party to this deal: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-12/kushner-s-2017-apartment-deal-shows-turn-toward-israeli-firms
(archived here: http://archive.is/Gb0xl)


Israel is one of 4 countries that reportedly discussed how to exploit the business interests of Jared Kushner.
Kushner directed a campaign to combat the Obama administration’s 11th-hour effort in December 2016 to pass a UN resolution against Israel’s settlements in occupied Palestinian territory. Kushner allegedly contacted the Russian ambassador in an attempt to sway their UN vote.

Kushner Companies also received at least 4 “loans” from Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, which is under investigation of the US Department of Justice for helping US citizens evade taxes through undeclared accounts through its Swiss division.

Shortly before President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel in May 2017, accompanied by Jared Kushner, Menora Mivtachim (one of Israel’s largest insurers) invested $30 million in Kushner Companies.

In 2012, the Kushners and Raz Steinmetz joined forces to buy nearly $190 million worth of apartment buildings in lower Manhattan.
Raz’s uncle, Beny Steinmetz is under investigation in 4 countries - the United States, Israel, Switzerland and Guinea - on charges of bribery and money laundering.

Through the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation, the Kushners have also supported several “charities” on the occupied West Bank.
The controversial Bet El Institutions, that supports one of the West Bank’s most radical settlements, received $20,000 from the Kushner Foundation in 2013.
Between 2011 and 2013, the family foundation donated a total of $315,000 to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF). Until he joined the Trump administration in January 2017, Jared Kushner even served on the FIDF national board: https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-jared-kushner-s-business-interests-in-israel-revealed-in-full-1.5865165


I’m almost sure it has nothing to do with the festive opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem...

See the US delegation posing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the opening of the new US Embassy in Jerusalem. In the centre is Sara Netanyahu, to her right husband Benjamin Netanyahu, to his right US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner; 13 May 2018, Jerusalem.
http://www.photonews24.com/bn/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/5af9583fd89ab42e008b48db.jpg

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After, becoming “unpaid” advisers to Ivanka’s father, President Donald Trump, Ivanka and Jared Kushner made a total income of between $82 million and $222 million in 2017, compared to $89 to $201 million in 2016.
That’s an average of $225 to 608 thousands dollar per day in 2017!
The couple’s real estate holdings and other investments went from $761 million in 2016 to $811 last year.

The biggest single transaction for the Kushner couple was in September, when Quail Ridge purchased residential real estate in Plainsboro, New Jersey for $5-25 million.

Last month, Kushner Companies made Brookfield Asset Management an offer they can’t refuse for financing the 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan (remember the earlier Qatar blockade?)…
Brookfield Asset Management is partly owned by the Qatar government: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/business/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-investing.html

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After becoming US President Donald Trump is in a position where he can continue to loan indefinitely (that’s not counting the spineless US Congress), while others have to pay for it...

In the following 1980 interview, Rona Barrett asks Donald Trump what kind of man would be a good president.
At the end of this video – 4:07 - Rona asks Donald: If you’d lose your fortune today what would you do tomorrow?
Donald answers: Maybe I’d run for president; I don’t know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAgJAxkALyc


Worth watching again.

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Kushner Companies also received at least 4 “loans” from Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, which is under investigation of the US Department of Justice for helping US citizens evade taxes through undeclared accounts through its Swiss division.


On 30 April 2020, Geoffrey Berman announced a deferred prosecution agreement against Israel's largest bank Bank Hapoalim, for helping to hide assets in offshore accounts and helping to bribe FIFA officials (the body that controls international soccer).
Bank Hapoalim settled the 2 cases for more than $900 million. Berman commented:
Israel's largest bank, Bank Hapoalim, and its Swiss subsidiary have admitted not only failing to prevent but actively assisting U.S. customers to set up secret accounts, to shelter assets and income, and to evade taxes. The combined payment approaching $1 billion reflects the magnitude of the tax evasion by the Bank's U.S. customers, the size of the fees the Bank collected to provide this illegal service, and the gravity of the illegal conduct.

In the first case, Bank Hapoalim helped launder millions in bribes and kickbacks paid to officials in FIFA. Between 2010 and 2015, Hapoalim’s Miami branch laundered illicit payments to FIFA officials, including former head of Colombian football and a member of FIFA’s executive committee Luis Bedoya. In 2015, Bedoya was banned from international soccer and was (is?) awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty pleading guilty to racketeering and wire fraud.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowsk commented:
For nearly five years, Bank Hapoalim employees used the U.S. financial system to launder tens of millions of dollars in bribe payments to corrupt soccer officials in multiple countries.

In the second case, Bank Hapoalim pleaded guilty to aiding U.S. customers in setting up accounts under false names to evade taxes on more than $7.6 billion in deposits.
For this second case alone, Bank Hapoalim agreed to pay $874 million in penalties, tax arrears and forfeited assets: http://archive.is/KOtzE


For more on the firing of US attorney Geoffrey Berman for investigating Trump’s associates: http://ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?547371-US-attorney-Berman-fired-after-investigating-Trump-cronies

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666 Fifth Avenue? And HR 6666 with 66 co sponsors? This is too much for me

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In 2015, Kushner’s company purchased the former New York Times Building in Times Square from an entity called Africa-Israel Investments, headed by Russian oligarch Lev Leviev.
Leviev was a business partner of the Russian Prevezon Holdings that was accused of money laundering by the DoJ. Prevezon was represented by Natalia Veselnitskaya and got off with a “slap on the wrist” of $6 million.
Leviev told the New York Times that he was a “true friend” of Vladimir Putin, largely through his work with the Moscow Jewish Museum, the Russian Jewish Congress and his close ties to Russia’s Chief Chabad Rabbi, Berel Lazar.
Rotem Rosen was the "right hand man" of diamond magnate Chabad-Lubavitcher Lev Leviev.
In December 2007, Zina Sapir, daughter of (the late) Tamir, married Rotem Rosen, in a wedding hosted by Donald Trump at the Mar-a-Lago.
The Sapir Organization (that was founded by Tamir Sapir) partnered with Bayrock and the Trump Organization in the Trump SoHo project.

Lev Leviev also bought Israeli media companies together with Donald Trump’s close friend Ronald Lauder.


In 2010, Israeli authorities “investigated” a money-laundering case of Bank Hapoalim that involved the Katsyv family. Millions of dollars were transferred through Katsyv-controlled accounts at the bank. According to Israeli prosecutors, Hapoalim bank managers concealed the real beneficiaries of these accounts in violation of anti-money-laundering rules.
The bank blamed Katsyv’s business for these violations, so the bank managers were found not guilty.

Prevezon Holdings Ltd was registered in 2005 and is owned by Denis Katsyv and Martash Investment Holdings Ltd from the British Virgin Islands that is also owned by Denis Katsyv.

On 5 February 2008, Bunicon received $9.4 million from the correspondent account of the Krainiy Sever bank. The next day Bunicon sent $410,000 to Prevezon’s account at the Swiss bank UBS AG.
On 13 February 2008, Elenast received $800,000 from the same account and then transferred more than half that amount to Prevezon.

Katsyv is also in business with Russian oligarch Lev Leviev: https://www.reportingproject.net/proxy/en/following-the-magnitsky-money
(http://archive.is/44HQS)


The following story is quite good... see some excerpts (including Hapoalim, Leviev, Denis Katsyv and Preet Bharara).

Trump fired Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey primarily because Comey asked for additional resources from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to beef up the FBI's "follow-the-money" investigation of the Trump campaign. The FBI's receipt of data from the Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) regarding the money laundering involving Trump and Kushner businesses, accounts maintained by the Bank of Cyprus, HSBC, Bank Hapoalim of Israel, and other banks, and the Trump presidential campaign are what lie at the heart of the FBI's investigation of Trump. The FBI is reportedly focused on Trump's associates' financial dealings with banks in Cyprus.
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Bayrock was linked as a partner to another business syndicate, the Sapir Organization, headed by Donald and Ivanka Trump's and Jared Kushner's good friends Rotem Rosen and Israeli citizen Alex Sapir. The Sapir Organization is involved in major hotel projects in New York and around the world, including the Trump Tower in Toronto. Others involved with the Toronto Trump Tower include Uzbek-Israeli diamond tycoon Lev Leviev, accused of trafficking in African "blood diamonds" and Canadian-Russian-Israeli businessman Alexander Shnaider, owner of Talon International Development Inc, and co-owner of Midland Resources Holding Inc. with his partner Ukrainian-Russian billionaire , who is also vice-president of the World Jewish Congress.
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According to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, none other than Preet Bharara, who Trump fired, the Trincher criminal syndicate, known as the "Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization, ran a major illegal sports betting operation in the United States. Bharara's indictment specified the "Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization (the "Organization") was a criminal enterprise with strong ties to Russia and Ukraine. The enterprise operated a high-stakes, illegal sports gambling business out of New York City that catered primarily to Russian oligarchs living in Ukraine and Russia." In other words, the same tower that Donald Trump called home was the center of a major illegal sports betting operation. Given Trump's own ties to gambling casinos and professional sports, there is little wonder why Trump viewed Bharara and Comey as threats.
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A Kushner project to redevelop Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood involves the family of Israel's diamond magnate billionaire family. The Kushner deal involves Raz Steinmetz, whose uncle is Beny Steinmetz, the owner Steinmetz Diamond Group and BSG Resources, the latter under an FBI investigation for violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for bribes paid to officials of the West African Republic of Guinea for mining concessions in that nation. Steinmetz companies also conduct business through a British Virgin Islands shell company called "Rebar LLC."

Ras Steinmetz's brother, Daniel Steinmetz, was involved in business with Jared Kushner through Gaia Investments Corporation of Tel Aviv through an affiliate Gaia JC LLC. After Jared Kushner became a chief adviser to Trump, said to be one of only a few in a Trump "inner circle" that also includes daughter Ivanka Trump, communications specialist Hope Hicks, and Trump "body man" Keith Schiller, the Steinmetz-Kushner firm changed its name to "65 Bay LLC."
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In a case that was vigorously pursued by fired U.S. Attorney Bharara in Manhattan, the U.S. Justice Department, now under Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy Rod Rosenstein, has agreed to a settlement with Moscow businessman Denis Katsyv and his hedge fund firm Prevezon Holdings, Ltd. just three days before scheduled jury selection for the trial. Prevezon and its eleven related companies had been charged with money laundering for a criminal network extending from Russia to Moldova and Latvia to New York and Israel. What was at the heart of the money laundering case? You guessed it. the Red Kosher Nostra. Katsyv's partners included his Russian partner Timofey Krit and Israeli businessman Alexander Litvak.
http://milfuegos.blogspot.com/2017/05/trumps-russian-ties-are-with-red-kosher.html
(http://archive.is/CjiZz)


For more on the firing of US attorney Geoffrey Berman for investigating Trump’s associates: http://ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?547371-US-attorney-Berman-fired-after-investigating-Trump-cronies

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In 2012, the Kushners and Raz Steinmetz joined forces to buy nearly $190 million worth of apartment buildings in lower Manhattan.
Raz’s uncle, Beny Steinmetz is under investigation in 4 countries - the United States, Israel, Switzerland and Guinea - on charges of bribery and money laundering.

A “dubious relationship” between Gaia and Bank Hapoalim, which is also one of Kushner Cos. lenders, has been reported.
Gaia Investment lists Shlomo Meichor and Assi Arev as principals. Meichor was previously chief financial officer of Ampal-American Israel Corp. In 1996, Raz Steinmetz and his father Daniel (Beny’s brother) bought a controlling interest in Ampal-American Israel Corp. from Bank Hapoalim.

Kushner Companies buying real estate in New York for $190 million was made possible because of investments from Israel’s Raz Steinmetz, whose uncle is none other than diamond billionaire Beny Steinmetz.
Since at least 2012, Kushner Cos. and Raz Steinmetz’s investment firm Gaia have been in business including in a number of joint ventures.

In the 1990s, Beny and Daniel formed Steinmetz Diamond Group (now Diacor International Ltd.), which is one of about 80 companies that can buy diamonds from De Beers SA.

Beny Steinmetz, who was represented by none other than Trump supporter and Jeffrey Epstein friend Alan M. Dershowitz, has been accused of bribing Guinea (in Africa) government officials with tens of millions of dollars, for his Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR), to secure iron-ore mining rights.
Beny Steinmetz started a “frivolous and false” lawsuit against none other than George Soros for orchestrating being prosecuted in the US: http://archive.is/O0ldi


Beny Steinmetz is of course also a close business partner of Dan Gertler, who is plundering the Congo from its natural resources: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?541378-Rwanda-genocide-France-Britain-and-the-UN&p=6895660&viewfull=1#post6895660

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A “dubious relationship” between Gaia and Bank Hapoalim, which is also one of Kushner Cos. lenders, has been reported.
Gaia Investment lists Shlomo Meichor and Assi Arev as principals. Meichor was previously chief financial officer of Ampal-American Israel Corp. In 1996, Raz Steinmetz and his father Daniel (Beny’s brother) bought a controlling interest in Ampal-American Israel Corp. from Bank Hapoalim.

Kushner Companies buying real estate in New York for $190 million was made possible because of investments from Israel’s Raz Steinmetz, whose uncle is none other than diamond billionaire Beny Steinmetz.
Since at least 2012, Kushner Cos. and Raz Steinmetz’s investment firm Gaia have been in business including in a number of joint ventures.

In the 1990s, Beny and Daniel formed Steinmetz Diamond Group (now Diacor International Ltd.), which is one of about 80 companies that can buy diamonds from De Beers SA.


Did not see this reporting by more reliable MSM outlets like NBC, CNN, NYT etc. De Beers Diamonds were also linke dto 'blood diaminds' if recall old news correctly.
But biggest issue would be financial links, in confirmed would also put in question historic First Son-in-law's "neutral" role as US Mideast Peace plan envoy.

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Did not see this reporting by more reliable MSM outlets like NBC, CNN, NYT etc.
Some people regard Bloomberg.com as a “reputable” source...

http://archive.is/O0ldi