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16. Jared Kushner

16. Jared Kushner

16.1. Relationship with Russia

  • 2014-2016 - Kusner (and Ivanka) have a relationship with with Abramovich’s wife. Source and Source Source
  • 1/7/2017 - Mr. Kushner’s company also bought several floors of the old New York Times building for $295 million in 2015 from Lev Leviev, an Israeli who is chairman of one of the largest real estate development companies in Russia and close friend to Putin. Source
  • 3/2/2017 – Flynn along with Kushner met with Russian envoy, Kislyak, at Trump tower. Source
  • 3/17/2017 - Rybolovlev’s Jet and Yacht were in Dubrovnik the same time as Kushner and Ivanka. Source
  • 3/27/2017 - Kushner flew to Aspen same day as Abramovich, who owns a home in Aspen. Source
  • 3/27/2017 - Senate Intel want to question meetings Kushner had with meetings. Including a previously unknown meeting where Kushner met with the head of Russia’s state-owned development bank Vnesheconombank which involved Kislyak. Source
    • 3/28/2017 - Sanctioned bank confirms it met with Kushner. Source
  • 3/29/2017 - Bank that Kushner met with paid Russian intelligence agent’s legal tab. Source
  • 3/30/2017 - When Kushner appears before Senate Intelligence he will describe his interactions with Russians during the transition as a point man “looking for the right person to engage with on Russia,” Source
  • 4/6/2017 - Kushner did not mention dozens of contacts with foreign leaders or officials in recent months. They include a December meeting with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, and one with the head of a Russian state-owned bank, Vnesheconombank, arranged at Mr. Kislyak’s behest. Source
  • 5/19/2017 - The law enforcement investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign has identified a current White House official as a significant person of interest, showing that the probe is reaching into the highest levels of government. People believe this to be Kushner. Source
  • 5/26/2017 - Top presidential adviser Jared Kushner’s legal team pushed back Friday night against a report that the White House senior adviser and Trump son-in-law had at least three undisclosed contacts with a Russian ambassador during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, saying he had “no recollection” of the alleged exchanges. Source
  • 5/26/2017 - Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports. Source
      • 5/27/2017 - President Donald Trump’s top economic and national security advisers on Saturday declined to comment on the swirl of allegations that Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is facing regarding his contacts with Russian officials. Source
  • 5/27/2017 - The Russian banker Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner met with in December is viewed by U.S. intelligence as a “Putin crony” and a graduate of a “finishing school” for spies who was often tasked with sensitive financial operations by Putin. Source
  • 5/29/2017 - Federal and congressional investigators are now examining what exactly Mr. Kushner and the Russian banker, Sergey N. Gorkov, wanted from each other. One current and one former American official with knowledge of the continuing congressional and F.B.I. investigations said they were examining whether the channel was meant to remain open, and if there were other items on the meeting’s agenda, including lifting sanctions that the Obama administration had imposed on Russia in response to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and its aggression in Ukraine. Source
  • 6/1/2017 - Russian banker Gorkov went directly from Kushner meeting to join Putin in Japan. Source
  • 6/18/2017 - Representatives of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, have quietly contacted high-powered criminal lawyers about potentially representing him in the wide-ranging investigation into Russia’s influence on the 2016 election. Source