SEC dropped probe into firm that loaned Kushners company $180 million

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By BERNARD CONDONThe Associated Press
STEPHEN BRAUN
Fri., March 2, 2018

NEW YORK—The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission late last year dropped its inquiry into a financial company that a month earlier had given White House adviser Jared Kushner’s family real estate firm a $180 million loan ...

The SEC detail comes a day after The New York Times reported that Apollo’s loan to the Kushner Cos. followed several meetings at the White House with Kushner.

"I suppose the best case for Kushner is that this looks absolutely terrible," said Rob Weissman, president of Public Citizen. "Without presuming that there is any kind of quid pro quo ... there are a lot of ways that the fact of Apollo’s engagement with Kushner and the Kushner businesses in a public and private context might cast a shadow over what the SEC is doing and influence consciously or unconsciously how the agency acted" ...

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/03/02/sec-dropped-probe-into-firm-that-loaned-kushners-company-180-million.html

[Hoyt]

1. The kush is looking as sleazy as his daddy-in-law, BILs, and wife.

[moondust]

2. Not surprised.

Enforcement only applies to crimes of the poor now.

[Roland99]

3. Quelle surprise.

[gibraltar72]

4. Trumps department

of coincidences is looking in to that. They'll get back to you next week or the week after that.