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New York Business Journal
April 20, 2018
The firm's founder, Charles Kushner, was convicted of tax evasion and witness tampering in 2005. More recently, it received a subpoena from the SEC requesting information about its use of a federal investment-for-visa program known as EB-5. Last year, Kushner's sister — Nicole Meyer — was blamed forÃâà...
Politico
April 19, 2018
“We've just got to get it off the Hill.” The legislation has a personal significance for Trump's son-in-law beyond scoring a much-needed political win. Charles Kushner, Jared's father, served 14 months in federal prison for illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering in 2005 before being released toÃâà...
New York Times
April 9, 2018
But how much the Kushners were paying and where the money might be coming from — the company, now led by Jared's father, Charles Kushner, has been in a very public, three-year hunt ... In an interview on Monday in his office on the 15th floor of the building, Charles Kushner declined to share details.
New York Times
April 6, 2018
Mr. Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, has scrambled to find partners to bail out its investment in the building, which also serves as the headquarters of Kushner Companies. The company has a $1.4 billion mortgage on the building that is due in 10 months. Real estate analysts doubt that the office space isÃâà...
Vanity Fair
April 4, 2018
Charles Kushner, the family patriarch, has said that he raised his children to understand the burden of their incredible wealth. “They were taught if you have wealth, it is not something to be spoiled about,” he told The Washington Post in an interview in January, when asked about his son's embattled tenureÃâà...
Business Insider
April 3, 2018
Charles Kushner, the father of White House senior Jared Kushner, made rare public comments to The New York Times about his family's business prospects. Despite several investigations and scandals regarding his son and his family business, Kushner remains undeterred, and maintains his family didÃâà...
Slate Magazine
April 3, 2018
You detail that Charles Kushner, his father, met with the Qataris about funding their property, and that was turned down, which came right before the blockade of Qatar, which the White House may have approved even if many of our diplomats did not. When you were talking to people for the story, were theyÃâà...
Indiana Gazette
April 3, 2018
Like Ivanka before her, Karlie has had some rough patches in her romance because of the severe pressure she faces from Seryl and Charles Kushner, the parents of Josh and Jared, to convert to Orthodox Judaism. (The brothers' grandparents were Holocaust survivors.) Charles Kushner went to jail in aÃâà...
New York Times
April 2, 2018
It was sweet redemption for Charles Kushner last year when his son Jared was named senior White House adviser. A dozen years earlier, a sordid scandal stemming partly from a family falling-out had reduced the senior Mr. Kushner from real estate baron to felon making wallets at a prison camp inÃâà...
New York Times
March 31, 2018
Like Ivanka before her, Karlie has had some rough patches in her romance because of the severe pressure she faces from Seryl and Charles Kushner, the parents of Josh and Jared, to convert to Orthodox Judaism. (The brothers' grandparents were Holocaust survivors.) Charles Kushner went to jail in aÃâà...
The Cheat Sheet
March 30, 2018
In 2005, Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, was sent to prison for tax fraud, witness tampering, and illegal campaign donations. Chris Christie, who was then the U.S. Attorney General of New Jersey, launched the criminal investigation that brought his father down. It seems that Kushner has been trying toÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 24, 2018
Charles Kushner told the Washington Post that the Qatari side requested the meeting, and his company had decided that it would not accept sovereign wealth fund investments. "We informed the Qatar representatives of our decision and they agreed. Even if they were there ready to wire the money, weÃâà...
The Intercept
March 21, 2018
Then in April 2017, Charles Kushner made a direct pitch to the Qatari government through the country's minister of finance. Qatar rejected the deal as not financially viable. In May, Trump traveled to Riyadh with Kushner, where the famous glowing orb photo was taken. In the wake of the meeting, SaudiÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 20, 2018
The meeting between Charles Kushner and Qatar's Finance Minister Ali Sharif al-Emadi took place in New York City in 2017, a few months after President Donald Trump's inauguration, the Post reported. The potential funding would have been directed to Kushner's financially troubled flagship property onÃâà...
AOL
March 11, 2018
NEWARK, NJ - AUGUST 18: Charles Kushner (C) wades though the media with his legal team and wife to the U.S. District Courthouse August 18, 2004 in Newark, New Jersey. Kushner, a New Jersey developer and a major campaign contributors to Democrats including embattled Gov. Jim McGreevey, isÃâà...
NJ.com
March 9, 2018
Schneider confirmed that he and Charles Kushner recently "exchanged ideas" about Kushner's proposal. Goodman said he mentioned the proposal to the FTA in a recent phone call. The FTA, which has not had a confirmed administrator since January 2014, declined to respond to questions from TheÃâà...
Newsweek
March 6, 2018
No deal came out of the talks headed by Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, who has run the company since Trump's son-in-law began serving in the White House. Weeks later, Jared Kushner and the Trump administration stood behind the blockade that shifted alliances in the region, with Qatar—whichÃâà...
Wichita Eagle (blog)
March 6, 2018
FACT A-1: A few months after the 2016 election, Charles Kushner, father of presidential son-in-law and key advisor Jared Kushner, asked Qatar's minister of finance to help bail the Kushner family real estate company out of a disastrous $1.8 billion investment in 666 Fifth Avenue, New York. The ministerÃâà...
Verdict
March 5, 2018
Charles Kushner met with Qatari Finance Minister Ali Sharif Al Emadi at a New York hotel in April 2017, in an attempt to secure funding for Kushners' ailing signature 666 Fifth Avenue property in New York, according to the Intercept, citing two anonymous sources. Following unsuccessful efforts to refinanceÃâà...
WTVD-TV
March 5, 2018
The Intercept reported that Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, sought financial support from the Qatari financial minister for the family business's 666 Fifth Avenue property in New York City but failed to get it. Weeks later, Jared Kushner backed diplomatic moves, including a blockade, by Saudi Arabia,Ãâà...
Yahoo Finance
March 5, 2018
If it's true, Jared Kushner has to go,” Murphy, a prominent voice on foreign policy, said of President Donald Trump's son-in-law on ABC News' “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” The Intercept reported on Friday that representatives of Kushner Companies, including Kushner's father, Charles KushnerÃâà...
10News
March 4, 2018
Jared Kushner's family-run real estate business sought and was denied financing from the Qatari government weeks before the White House supported a blockade on the country, according to reports. Jared's father Charles Kushner reportedly held a meeting with Qatar's minister of finance in April 2017 inÃâà...
The Independent
March 3, 2018
The charges which Charles Kushner admitted were not insignificant. He had previously been fined $500,900 for illegally making political contributions in the names of his business partnerships. The details of the witness tampering charge were especially colourful: Kushner Snr sought to punish hisÃâà...
The Week Magazine
March 3, 2018
As part of a bitter feud with his brother Murray and his sister Esther, Charles Kushner (Jared's dad) hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law William Schulder (husband of Esther) and film the encounter, which he then sent to his sister. For that he was convicted of tax evasion, illegal campaign donationsÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 3, 2018
According to the Intercept, Charles Kushner held meetings with Qatari finance minister, Ali Sharif Al Emadi in April 2017 in pursuit of investment funding for a New York City property owned by the former. If true, this action would represent a stellar example of the swamp-like behavior Trump railed against inÃâà...
The Real Deal Magazine
March 2, 2018
Charles Kushner met with Qatar's minister of finance to make a direct pitch for an investment in the troubled office tower 666 Fifth Avenue, according to a new report. In a statement to The Real Deal, Kushner Companies denied that the company tried to land Qatari government money. “To be clear, we didÃâà...
The Intercept
March 2, 2018
This was not the first time Charles Kushner solicited funds from the Qataris, but it is the first direct pitch known to be made to the minister of finance himself. Notably, the play came after Trump's election. The Intercept first reported last summer that Charles Kushner had also propositioned Sheikh Hamad binÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 2, 2018
According to the Intercept, Charles Kushner held meetings with Qatari finance minister, Ali Sharif Al Emadi in April 2017 in pursuit of investment funding for a New York City property owned by the former. If true, this action would represent a stellar example of the swamp-like behavior Trump railed against inÃâà...
The Independent
March 2, 2018
The charges which Charles Kushner admitted were not insignificant. He had previously been fined $500,900 for illegally making political contributions in the names of his business partnerships. The details of the witness tampering charge were especially colourful: Kushner Snr sought to punish hisÃâà...
Vox
March 1, 2018
His father, Charles Kushner, had built what by the early 2000s was a billion-dollar real estate empire in New Jersey and other Northeastern states. Now fabulously rich, Charles handed over big donations to smooth Jared's way into Harvard (with the help of two United States senators). Charles also becameÃâà...
The Intercept
February 21, 2018
As The Intercept reported last July, Charles Kushner solicited funds from Qatar's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim, known as HBJ, who now runs the investment firm Al Mirqab Capital. The Qatari businessman pledged to provide Charles Kushner, then heading Kushner Companies in Jared'sÃâà...
Philly.com
December 31, 1999
You see, Jared Kushner has a devil of a problem that ye shall know as “666” — 666 5th Avenue, a massive skyscraper that the young Kushner — looking to assert himself, with his dad and family patriarch Charles Kushner dealing with his own past sins — bought for their development firm for $1.8 billion atÃâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
Signature Bank has also extended an unsecured line of credit jointly held by Jared and Charles Kushner, ranging from $5 million to $25 million, an increase from the last disclosed financing ranging from $1 million to $5 million. Financing from Deutsche Bank was unchanged, ranging from $5 million to $25Ãâà...
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