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Exclusive: Mueller's interest in Kushner grows to include foreign financing efforts
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/19/poli...-kushner-foreign-financing-efforts/index.html
Seriously, I should get a blow-job for calling this three months ago.
https://www.debatepolitics.com/brea...on-foreign-leaders-report.html#post1067870536
This is the kind of expansion that follows from any investigation like Mueller's, where you start from 'X' and end up with 'Y' as your focus. It famously happened in Whitewater via Starr, so I don't want to hear conservatives complain now that it involves a WH they support.
We'll see what happens, but I'm going to call Kushner getting indicted for false/misleading fillings on his SF-86 form, and perhaps a corruption case for using the campaign to solicit foreign nationals for funds.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/19/poli...-kushner-foreign-financing-efforts/index.html
Special counsel Robert Mueller's interest in Jared Kushner has expanded beyond his contacts with Russia and now includes his efforts to secure financing for his company from foreign investors during the presidential transition, according to people familiar with the inquiry.
This is the first indication that Mueller is exploring Kushner's discussions with potential non-Russian foreign investors, including in China.
US officials briefed on the probe had told CNN in May that points of focus related to Kushner, the White House senior adviser and son-in-law of President Donald Trump, included the Trump campaign's 2016 data analytics operation, his relationship with former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and Kushner's own contacts with Russians.
Mueller's investigators have been asking questions, including during interviews in January and February, about Kushner's conversations during the transition to shore up financing for 666 Fifth Avenue, a Kushner Companies-backed New York City office building reeling from financial troubles, according to people familiar with the special counsel investigation.
It's not clear what's behind Mueller's specific interest in the financing discussions. Mueller's team has not contacted Kushner Companies for information or requested interviews with its executives, according to a person familiar with the matter.
During the presidential transition, Kushner was a lead contact for foreign governments, speaking to "over fifty contacts with people from over fifteen countries," according to a statement he gave to congressional investigators.
One line of questioning from Mueller's team involves discussions Kushner had with Chinese investors during the transition, according to the sources familiar with the inquiry.
A week after Trump's election, Kushner met with the chairman and other executives of Anbang Insurance, the Chinese conglomerate that also owns the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, according to The New York Times.
At the time, Kushner and Anbang's chairman, Wu Xiaohui, were close to finishing a deal for the Chinese insurer to invest in the flagship Kushner Companies property, 666 Fifth Avenue. Talks between the two companies collapsed in March, according to the Times.
Mueller's team has also asked about Kushner's dealings with a Qatari investor regarding the same property, according to one of the sources. Kushner and his company were negotiating for financing from a prominent Qatari investor, former prime minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, according to The Intercept. But as with Anbang, these efforts stalled.
Seriously, I should get a blow-job for calling this three months ago.
https://www.debatepolitics.com/brea...on-foreign-leaders-report.html#post1067870536
MovingPictures said:It starting to look more and more like Mueller is building a serious perjury case against Kushner for his deceptive SF-86 forms. We know Kushner met with countless ambassadors and officials from other countries to negotiate policy (which is a violation of the Logan act), and he also didn't disclose multiple companies and loans, so it should be a pretty straightforward case to build.
Mueller will likely also try and examine whether Kushner and his family business violated campaign election/emolument laws by offering 'pay for play' to nationals willing to invest with them. That certainly happened with Russia, Qatar, and China, and one could certainly see that going all the way down to the state level.
This is the kind of expansion that follows from any investigation like Mueller's, where you start from 'X' and end up with 'Y' as your focus. It famously happened in Whitewater via Starr, so I don't want to hear conservatives complain now that it involves a WH they support.
We'll see what happens, but I'm going to call Kushner getting indicted for false/misleading fillings on his SF-86 form, and perhaps a corruption case for using the campaign to solicit foreign nationals for funds.