Why Jared's debt matters in Russia probe
Updated Feb 14, 8:27 PM; Posted Feb 14, 8:27 PM
By The Washington Post
By Jennifer Rubin
... Kushner's financial problems relating to his 2007 purchase of the 666 Fifth Ave. building for $1.8 billion have come up in the context of the Russia investigation ... Kushner met with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, to discuss a secret back-channel and with the head of a sanctioned Russian bank, Vnesheconombank (VEB) ... And he was present at the .. June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower attended by a Kremlin-connected lawyer ... Kushner's financial problems make these contacts all the more troubling. As he was racking up debt, law professor Jed Shugerman tells me, Kushner "also just coincidentally was setting up secret lines to the Kremlin and was meeting with .. Putin's banker a month after the election. And he just coincidentally was meeting with Russians offering dirt in Trump Tower during the election" ... "The more money Kushner owes, especially to lenders or guarantors who do not have America's best interests at heart, the more he and his father-in-law the president are subject to compromising pressures at best and outright blackmail at worst," constitutional lawyer Larry Tribe tells me ...
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