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2003.03.05Jared Kushner's father is convicted of illegal campaign contributions, 18 counts of tax evasion & witness tampering. nytimes.com
2015.02.15Jared Kushner’s family says it won’t buy Marlins if Jeffrey Loria, a major donor to Trump's campaign, becomes ambassador to France. washingtonpost.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, First 100 Days, Reince Priebus, Rex Tillerson)
2016.06.26One month before Election Day, Jared Kushner’s real estate company finalized a $285 million loan as part of a refinancing package for its property near Times Square in Manhattan, just as the lender - Deutsche Bank - was working to settle money laundering cases against them, which then were settled shortly thereafter. washingtonpost.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, 2016 Election, Corruption)
2017.02.03Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner talk Trump out of drafting an executive order that would have overturned enforcement of LGBT rights in the workplace. lgbtqnation.com (See also Ivanka Trump, First 100 Days, Homophobia, LGBTQIA)
2017.02.15Trump assigns Stephen K. Bannon, Jared Kushner, and billionaire private equity executive Stephen A. Feinberg to conduct a review of intelligence agencies. nytimes.com (See also First 100 Days, Steve Bannon, Assaults on Government)
2017.02.16Deutsche Bank looks for evidence of whether loans to Trump were underpinned by guarantees from Moscow after Trump declares his intent to run for President. theguardian.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Department of Justice, Ivanka Trump, Russia, The Trump Organization)
2017.02.24Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner publicly silent as White House rolls back transgender protections after previously advocating for LGBT workplace rights. politico.com (See also Ivanka Trump, LGBTQIA)
2017.03.02White House confirms that Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and now a senior adviser, also participated in the meeting at Trump Tower with Mr. Flynn and Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, in December. nytimes.com (See also First 100 Days, Russia, Russian Meddling in Election, Michael Flynn)
2017.03.08Senators Warren, Carper and Cummings write to the White House Counsel asking for clarification on Jared Kushner’s compliance with conflict-of-interest laws. medium.com (See also First 100 Days, Conflicts of Interest)
2017.03.13Jared Kushner set to get $400 Million from Chinese Firm investing in tower. bloomberg.com (See also China, Conflicts of Interest)
2017.06.08Philip Allen Lacovara, a former U.S. deputy solicitor general in the Justice Department, says James B. Comey placed President Trump in the sights of a federal criminal investigation, laying out evidence sufficient for a case of obstruction of justice. washingtonpost.com (See also Legal Activity, Unpresidential Behavior, Corruption, Jeff Sessions, Russian Meddling in Election)
2017.06.15Special counsel Bob Mueller is investigating the finances and business dealings of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, as part of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. washingtonpost.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Michael Flynn, Legal Activity)
2017.07.09Donald Trump Jr. was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign. nytimes.com (See also Russia, Donald Trump Jr, 2016 Campaign, Russian Meddling in Election, Corruption)
The meeting was also attended by Paul J. Manafort and Jared Kushner, who only recently disclosed the meeting.
2017.07.10A few months before Trump encouraged Saudi Arabia and others to blockade Qatar, the real estate business owned by the family of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, sought, and failed to get, a substantial investment from one of the Gulf State country’s wealthiest and most politically influential figures. bloomberg.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Qatar, Saudi Arabia)
2017.07.10Trump’s advisers recruited two businessmen who profited from military contracting to devise alternatives to the Pentagon’s plan to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan. nytimes.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Steve Bannon, James Mattis, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, H.R. McMaster)
2017.07.12Congress and the Justice Department are examining whether the Trump campaign’s digital operation – overseen by Jared Kushner – helped guide Russia’s sophisticated voter targeting and fake news attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2016. mcclatchydc.com (See also 2016 Campaign, Russian Meddling in Election, Corruption)
2017.07.13Donald Trump lied today about how Natalia Veselnitskaya entered the United States to meet with his son, campaign manager, and son-in-law. buzzfeed.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia, Donald Trump Jr, Assaults on Facts)
2017.07.14The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. and others on the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist — a former Soviet counterintelligence officer who is suspected by U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence. nbcnews.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Donald Trump Jr, Corruption)
2017.07.14The former Soviet intelligence officer who attended the now-infamous meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and other top campaign officials last June was previously accused in federal and state courts of orchestrating an international hacking conspiracy. thedailybeast.com (See also Donald Trump Jr, Russian Meddling in Election, 2016 Campaign)
2017.07.15A prominent Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet military officer attended the meeting with Donald Trump’s son, son-in-law and campaign chairman last year, adding a new wrinkle to the Trump team’s evolving explanations about the June 2016 session, as this wasn't previously disclosed. apnews.com (See also Donald Trump Jr, Russian Meddling in Election, Corruption, 2016 Campaign)
2017.07.21Jared Kushner's status as a top aide to President Donald Trump was used to lure Chinese investors to his family's New Jersey development, even after his family's company apologized for mentioning his name during a sales pitch in May. cnn.com (See also China, Conflicts of Interest)
2017.07.21The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. after his father won the Republican nomination for the 2016 U.S. presidential election counted Russia's FSB security service among her clients for years. reuters.com (See also Russia, Trump Relationship with Russia, Russian Meddling in Election, Donald Trump Jr)
2017.07.24In his first public defense of his meetings with Russian officials during Donald Trump’s campaign and transition, Jared Kushner on Monday presented his encounters with those operatives as innocent interactions, saying "I did not collude." politico.com (See also 2016 Campaign, Russian Meddling in Election, Jeff Sessions)
2017.07.24Jared Kushner secured a multimillion-dollar Manhattan real estate deal with a Soviet-born oligarch whose company was cited in a major New York money laundering case now being investigated by members of Congress. theguardian.com (See also Legal Activity, Russia)
2017.08.02Kushner Cos., the New York property development business owned by the family of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, has been subpoenaed by New York federal prosecutors regarding its use of an investment-for-immigration program, according to people familiar with the matter. wsj.com (See also Legal Activity, Conflicts of Interest)