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NY prosecutors announce Manafort indictment minutes after federal sentencing

Hypothetical said:
because yeah he had to lobby congress to get special attention in order to endorse a university with his name?

dude , companies and people that lobby congress negatively are people trying to skirt some SERIOUS national security and negative public vote items, trying to get things through around your ability to stop them with your vote... or use YOUR money to fund their failure, etc.. on a large scale. Trump university is nothing in comparison.
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Lobby is everywhere, including in state policies and it will be naive to expect that a person who is actively involved in the swamp of state policies will be the best candidate to drain the swamp in Washington. On top of this, any federal law which affects business, from taxes to EPA regulations to immigration and fed subsidies is a concern of every businessman, even if the business is at a state level.

Here is one link

https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...81b52c-4225-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html

jared-kushner-and-his-partners-used-a-program-meant-for-job-starved-areas-to-build-a-luxury-skyscraper


and here are parts from a free one related to the same example

Jared Kushner Grifts Anti-Poverty Program For De-Luxe Apartments In The Sky - Wonkette


We all knew that Jared Kushner and his family were adept users of the EB-5 visa program, which allows rich foreigns to buy themselves a nice green card and eventual citizenship for the low, low price of a $500,000 investment in any U.S. project that "creates jobs."



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Records show that consultants working with Kushner Companies and its investors got really creative in defining the "neighborhood" where the tower at 65 Bay Street in Jersey City was located, coming up with a map that defined its immediate locale as

a swath of land that stretched nearly four miles and included some of the city’s poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods. At the same time, they excluded some wealthy neighborhoods only blocks away.
The tactic — critics liken it to the gerrymandering of legislative districts — made it appear that the luxury tower was in an area with extraordinarily high unemployment, allowing Kushner Companies and its partners to get $50 million in low-cost financing through the EB-5 visa program.

and

Jared Kushner, relative and adviser to Trump, to avoid housing voucher policies - Baltimore Sun

Kushner, the son-in-law and top adviser to President Donald J. Trump, will recuse himself from any policy discussion related to federal rental assistance for low-income tenants because his real estate firm's Baltimore-area properties receive income from the U.S. housing department's voucher program, the White House said.
 
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