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Undated: Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American investor, real-estate developer, and newspaper publisher who is currently senior advisor to his father-in-law, Donald Trump, the President of the United States. Kushner is the elder son of real-estate developer Charles Kushner, and is married to Ivanka Trump, President Trump's daughter and advisor. He was chief executive officer of the real-estate holding and development company Kushner Companies, and of Observer Media, publisher of the New York Observer. He is the co-founder and part owner of Cadre, an online real-estate investment platform.[1][2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner
-- 2016 --
December 20: How Jared Kushner Won Trump The White House
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive-interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump-the-white-house/#120d557a3af6
-- 2017 --
March 9: Ivanka Trump's D.C. landlord is tycoon behind planned Ely copper mine
Andrónico Luksic is a Chilean billionaire whose family controls Twin Metals, the company embroiled in a legal fight with the U.S. government over a proposed copper mine near the Minnesota Boundary Waters. He also owns the home where two of the most influential people in Washington, D.C., are living.
That's according to The Wall Street Journal, which reports on the Minnesota connection to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's D.C. home, which Luksic bought just after the November election. Trump and Kushner were also looking at the house but wanted to rent it; their broker made the connection to Luksic, a spokeswoman said.
Twin Metals, a unit of Chilean mining company Antofagasta, is embroiled in several disputes over its proposed copper mine. It's sued the federal government over expired mineral rights, and late last year regulators refused to reissue them, citing the threat of pollution to Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2017/03/09/ivanka-trumps-dc-landlord-is-tycoon-behind-mine.html
Additional related articles:
--- May 22, 2018 - The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday said it has reinstated the mining exploration leases for the proposed Twin Metals underground copper mine southeast of Ely.
--- The move is a reversal of a late Obama administration move that revoked the leases because of the potential harmful impact of copper mining on the nearby Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
--- The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management informed Twin Metals Minnesota of its decision Wednesday. The move comes after the Interior Department in December ruled that the Obama administration ruling to withhold the lease was not lawful. Meanwhile the U.S. Forest Service is mulling how to advance with a study of potential mining impact on the BWCAW, part of which would be downstream of the mine site on the Kawishiwi River.
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/energy-and-mining/4440253-twin-metals-gets-leases-back-feds
--- June 25, 2018 - Two more lawsuits were filed against the federal government Monday for its recent decision to reinstate expired copper-nickel mining leases next to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area — bringing the total to three complaints that altogether represent five environmental groups and nine Minnesota businesses.
--- Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness filed its own complaint, and four national environmental groups filed another. Last week nine businesses from Ely, Minn., that rely on recreation and tourism in the BWCA filed suit along with the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters. All three complaints are pending in federal court in Washington, D.C.
--- The leases are held by Twin Metals Minnesota, a subsidiary of Chilean conglomerate Antofagasta PLC, and are located on Superior National Forest lands just outside the BWCA near Ely. Twin Metals said in a statement it “firmly believes there is no basis for a court to disturb the reinstatement of the leases and will take appropriate steps to defend the government’s actions.”
http://www.startribune.com/lawsuits-against-twin-metals-mining-leases-pile-up/486503581/
March 27: Jared Kushner volunteers to speak with the Senate Intelligence Committee
The committee confirmed that Kushner will meet with its members as part of the ongoing investigation into Russia. It would not confirm when the meeting will occur.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jared-kushner-volunteers-to-speak-with-the-senate-intelligence-committee/
April 4: Angered by news coverage of his campaign and transition, President Donald Trump seemingly considered giving Fox News exclusive rights to coverage of his Inauguration, according to a Tuesday New York Times report.
... Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, attempted to broker a deal with 21st Century Fox's Rupert Murdoch.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-fox-news-inauguration-2017-4
May 25: The Watchtower in Brooklyn Heights is one of the most noticeable edifices in New York. It’s a complex of buildings on a bluff above the East River, with a sign on top that flashes the time and temperature. It used to be the world headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
But today, workers are preparing to give it a makeover. Like so much else in Brooklyn, the Watchtower has been sold to developers. It changed hands last August, shortly after Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for President.
The timing is relevant, because the buyer was Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. At $340 million, Kushner’s purchase of the Watchtower was one of the biggest real estate transactions in Brooklyn history.
Kushner didn’t buy the Watchtower alone. He had help from a company called CIM Group, a private equity firm based in Los Angeles. Over the years, documents show, CIM has done at least seven real estate deals that have benefited Trump and the people around him, including Kushner. Those deals included stabilizing the scandal-plagued Trump SoHo hotel, a key Manhattan holding for Trump and his children Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Jr.
At the same time, records show, CIM Group, with approximately $19.7 billion under management, has pursued an array of lucrative government contracts, pension investments, lobbying interests, and a global infrastructure fund, all of whose fortunes could benefit from a Trump presidency.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/trump-kushner-little-known-business-partner/
May 28: Jared Kushner’s Attempt to Setup a Secret Back Channel line with the Russians
http://bianchilawgroup.com/jaredkushner/
May 29: [in a new tweet, Trump again] ... accused reporters of falsifying the controversy over claims that his campaign aides colluded with Russians' election hacking effort.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/politics/trump-hasnt-changed-neither-has-washington/index.html
May 30: Trump defends Jared Kushner by promoting anonymously sourced FOX News story days after blasting anonymous sources as 'made up'
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/30/trump-defends-jared-kushner-promoting-anonymously-sourced-fox-news-story/22117749/
June 7: Father of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner spent 14 months in Montgomery federal prison
[Charles] Kushner's business continued to grow throughout the '90s and early 2000s, until 2004 when he ran afoul of election laws. Kushner was fined more than $500,000 by the Federal Election Commission for contributing to political campaigns in the name of his partnership despite lacking authorization to do so. Now on the federal radar, the U.S. Attorney's Office of the District of New Jersey - headed by current governor and former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie - began investigating Kushner's political activities.
Jared Kushner - then an undergraduate at Harvard University - saw his name improperly put on some $90,000 of his father's donations as well. He stood by his father during the investigation, however, and afterwards when Charles Kushner pleaded guilty to 18 counts of making illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering. The last charge involved a particularly nasty incident where Charles Kushner send his sister Esther a tape showing her husband William Schulder with a prostitute hired by Kushner to discredit his brother-in-law, who was cooperating with federal authorities.
After prison, Charles Kushner returned to his real estate development firm, amassing a fortune worth about $1.8 billion. The family had traditionally supported Democratic candidates but he gave $100,000 to Donald Trump's presidential campaign and hosted a reception for him at his New Jersey mansion.
There are reminders of Alabama that later joined Charles Kushner back north. Avram Lebor and Richard Goettlich - both of whom were imprisoned with Kushner - now work for the family's real estate company. Lebor, who served a seven-year sentence for a mortgage scheme, is Kushner's direction of acquisition; Goettlich serves as a leasing consultant. In 1998, Goettlich was sentenced to 10 years for securities fraud, money laundering and tax evasion.
https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/06/father_of_trump_son-in-law_jar.html
July 19: ... on June 1, [Democratic Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia] led over 50 congressmen in calling for immediate revocation of Kushner's security clearance.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/19/politics/ivanka-trump-don-beyer-fbi-security-clearance/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
July 24: “On October 30, 2016, I received a random email from the screenname Guccifer400,” Kushner said. “This email, which I interpreted as a hoax, was an extortion attempt and threatened to reveal candidate Trump’s tax returns and demanded that we send him 52 bitcoin in exchange for not publishing that information.”
https://gizmodo.com/jared-kushner-claims-a-guccifer-imposter-demanded-bit-1797196345
July 25: Fox News' Shep Smith is frankly skeptical of Jared Kushner's version of the Don Jr.-Russia meeting
http://theweek.com/speedreads/714127/fox-news-shep-smith-frankly-skeptical-jared-kushners-version-don-jrrussia-meeting
September 24: Lawyer: Jared Kushner used personal email for some WH messages
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, used his personal email account on dozens of occasions to communicate with colleagues in the White House, his lawyer said Sunday.
Between January and August, Kushner either received or responded to fewer than 100 emails from White House officials from his private account, attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement.
http://q13fox.com/2017/09/24/lawyer-jared-kushner-used-personal-email-for-some-wh-messages/
September 25: How Jared Kushner Is Dismantling a Family Empire ... The somewhat allegorical tragedy about what happens when a small-town New Jersey scion tries to redeem his father’s reputation in a decade—and may set his family back generations as a result.
Jared Kushner’s Grandma Rae hid with Jewish partisans in Poland during World War II—that’s where she met Joseph Kushner, a carpenter. When they reached New York, in 1949, they had as little as people can have—they’d lost their money and possessions, language, everything. Joseph worked construction in New Jersey, which was booming. When he’d saved money, he purchased and developed land with partners. He was one of several developers who came to be collectively known as the Holocaust Builders. By the time of his death, he’d built 4,000 apartments. That’s the dream. Start at zero, make a fortune. In the next generation, that very success would destroy the family.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/jared-kushner-family-empire-observer
October 10: Sen. Amy Klobuchar was among a group of U.S. senators who attended a dinner last week at the Washington home of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
The website Axios first reported the meeting. Klobuchar's office subsequently confirmed it to the Star Tribune.
A spokesperson for the Minnesota senator said the topic of the meeting was criminal justice reform efforts that have bipartisan support. Klobuchar got the invite to the home of the first daughter and son-in-law because she is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, her office said.
Other than that topic, Klobuchar's office said, there was casual conversation about the kids of several people at the dinner. Also in attendance were Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, along with Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has been pushing for legislation to reduce mandatory-minimum sentences for nonviolent offenders, among other changes to address mass incarceration.
http://www.startribune.com/klobuchar-other-lawmakers-dined-with-jared-kushner-and-ivanka-trump/450321903/
October 12: The head of a government bureau responsible for clearing background checks told lawmakers Wednesday he has "never seen that level of mistakes" when asked about numerous omissions in Jared Kushner's security clearance application.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/12/politics/jared-kushner-background-check-form/index.html
November 17: Kushner failed to disclose outreach from Putin ally to Trump campaign
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kushner-failed-disclose-outreach-putin-ally-trump-campaign-n822021
November 30: Jared Kushner's ties to the White House, link to the Russia investigation
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/30/jared-kushners-ties-to-white-house-link-to-russia-investigation.html
-- 2018 --
January 15: U.S. counterintelligence officials in early 2017 warned Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, that Wendi Deng Murdoch, a prominent Chinese-American businesswoman, could be using her close friendship with Mr. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, to further the interests of the Chinese government, according to people familiar with the matter.
U.S. officials have also had concerns about a counterintelligence assessment that Ms. Murdoch was lobbying for a high-profile construction project funded by the Chinese government in Washington, D.C.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/u-s-warned-jared-kushner-about-wendi-deng-murdoch
January 29: Jared Kushner Is China’s Trump Card
How the President’s son-in-law, despite his inexperience in diplomacy, became Beijing’s primary point of interest.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/jared-kushner-is-chinas-trump-card
January 31: Maryland state Dem's 'Jared Kushner Act' would stop some arrests for failing to pay rent
A Maryland state lawmaker in Baltimore has introduced what he calls the “Jared Kushner Act” -- a bill that would ban the state's judges from issuing arrest warrants for tenants being sued for less than $5,000 in unpaid rent.
Delegate Bilal Ali’s measure follows reports that the real estate management company owned by Kushner, a top adviser to President Donald Trump, was among the most forceful companies in Maryland in getting civil arrest warrants against tenants
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/31/maryland-state-dems-jared-kushner-act-would-stop-arrests-for-failing-to-pay-rent.html
February 14: Jared Kushner's Debt Soared By Millions Since Entering White House, Ivanka Trump Financial Disclosure Reveals
http://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushners-debt-soared-millions-entering-white-house-ivanka-trump-807055
February 22: Jared Kushner's Shady Russian Contacts Are Reportedly Why He Can't Get a Full Security Clearance
Despite the FBI's suspicions, the president's son-in-law still enjoyed top-level access.
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/jared-kushners-shady-russian-contacts-are-reportedly-why-he-cant-get-full-security
February 23: Kushner's clearance stalled by information being investigated by DOJ
https://www.axios.com/kushner-security-clearance-rosenstein-kelly-87d06051-41d5-4b0c-be44-a7b5ba609968.html
February 23: Shepard Smith: People Go To Prison For What Jared Kushner Did ...
White House senior aide Jared Kushner’s multiple omissions on required financial disclosure forms for his security clearance would “be a crime, punishable by prison” for other people, Fox News host Shepard Smith said Thursday.
“Apparently not in this case,” Smith added.
The White House has implied that Kushner’s frequent revisions to his financial forms to provide information that was incorrect or missing have caused delays which have held up his security clearance, even though he works with an interim clearance that allows him to view classified information.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/shepard-smith-others-get-prison-for-what-kushner-did_us_5a8f60eae4b01e9e56b9ef52
February 23: White House: Role of Kushner unaffected by security clearance
It is unclear what security status Jared Kushner requires to work at a high level on the Middle East peace process.
http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/White-House-Role-of-Kushner-unaffected-by-security-clearance-543437
February 23: Rosenstein alerted White House two weeks ago on Kushner clearance issues
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/375374-rosenstein-alerted-white-house-2-weeks-ago-on-kushner-clearance
February 23: Trump says John Kelly will decide on classified access for 'high-quality person' Jared Kushner
Chief of Staff John Kelly will make the decision about whether to revoke access to classified information for Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, the president said Friday. Trump expressed confidence in Kelly's judgment and praised his son-in-law as "a high-quality person" who "has been treated unfairly."
http://theweek.com/speedreads/757399/trump-says-john-kelly-decide-classified-access-highquality-person-jared-kushner
February 23: WH trying to keep Kushner involved on sensitive issues without Trump's intervention
Officials at the White House have been working to devise a plan this week that would allow Jared Kushner to continue in his role handling sensitive foreign policy matters without forcing President Donald Trump to personally intervene and grant him access to classified information, people familiar with the situation say.
The scramble came after chief of staff John Kelly issued a memo a week ago declaring the White House will no longer allow some employees with interim security clearances access to top secret information if their background investigation has been pending since before last June -- a category Kushner falls into.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/politics/kushner-kelly-security-clearance/index.html
February 23: The founder of one of China's biggest insurers, who had discussed possibly investing in a Manhattan skyscraper owned by the family of U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser, will be prosecuted for financial offenses and regulators have taken control of his company, the government announced Friday.
Anbang Insurance Group chairman Wu Xiaohui is charged with improper fundraising and "taking others' money," according to a statement by the Shanghai prosecutor's office. It gave no details and there was no indication the charges were linked to Wu's talks with Jared Kushner's family, which ended last March with no deal.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2018-02-23/china-prosecuting-tycoon-who-considered-kushner-investment
February 24: MSNBC analyst reveals why Kushner may face the same fate as Paul Manafort
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/msnbc-analyst-reveals-kushner-may-face-fate-paul-manafort/
February 27: Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence
A memo sent Friday downgraded the presidential son-in-law and adviser and other White House aides who had been working on interim clearances.
Kushner is not alone. All White House aides working on the highest-level interim clearances — at the Top Secret/SCI-level — were informed in a memo sent Friday that their clearances would be downgraded to the Secret level, according to three people with knowledge of the situation.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/27/jared-kushner-security-clearance-downgrade-427178
February 27: Jared Kushner’s Key Aide Leaving White House
Senior White House communications official Josh Raffel is leaving to join the private sector, Axios reported Tuesday. A former Hollywood PR executive, Raffel quickly became the point man for Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump within the White House—handling the “worst stories” and having connections in major publications and TV networks.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jared-kushners-key-aide-leaving-white-house
February 27: Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience, according to current and former U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports on the matter.
Among those nations discussing ways to influence Kushner to their advantage were the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico, the current and former officials said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kushners-overseas-contacts-raise-concerns-as-foreign-officials-seek-leverage/2018/02/27/16bbc052-18c3-11e8-942d-16a950029788_story.html?utm_term=.a48efac83ee8
March 1: A New York Times column by Maggie Haberman and Mark Landler claims President Donald Trump asked his chief of staff John Kelly for help in ousting first daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner from their advisory roles at the White House.
The column alleges that Trump’s managerial style, dubbed “chaos theory” by the writers, has caused emotional grief for the White House staff. It further claims that aides have “expressed frustration” that Kushner and Ivanka Trump have remained as senior advisers and that President Trump has “privately asked” Kelly for help in moving them out.
Kushner’s security clearance was downgraded this week, hampering his role as a senior adviser ...
https://deadline.com/2018/03/president-trump-asked-chief-of-staff-to-remove-ivanka-and-jared-kushner-report-1202307895/
March 2: Kushner's business got $500M in loans after White House meetings
According to the Times, Kushner met with Joshua Harris, one of the founders of Apollo Global Management, on multiple occasions while advising the Trump administration on infrastructure policy, three people familiar with the meetings said.
The topic of a job at the White House was also brought up, though never materialized. In November 2017, Apollo's real estate group lent Kushner Companies $184 million to refinance the mortgage of a Chicago skyscraper. The size of the loan, according to the Times, was triple the size of their average property loan.
