Will Ivanka and Jared be allowed to share a prison cell?

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We now have information on the assets and income of two of President Trump’s closest relatives and most intimate advisers, thanks to Friday night’s White House dump of financial disclosure forms. But Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have so many potential conflicts of interest that if they abide by ethics laws and past White House practices, they won’t be able to advise the president on three of his top priorities: Trade, tax reform and Wall Street deregulation.

Kushner’s financial report discloses assets worth between $240 million and $700 million for himself, his wife, Ivanka, (the president’s daughter and newly named assistant to the president) and their minor children. Jared, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, has resigned from more than 260 outside positions, including as CEO of the Kushner Companies and publisher of the New York Observer. He has divested or committed to divest approximately 80 holdings owned by himself, his spouse or their minor children. (Although Jared indicated he would sell the Observer, we do not see evidence of the sale in the report.)

Ivanka has resigned from all her officer positions with her outside companies, including those with the Trump Organization, according to the couple's attorney. She has appointed a company president to manage her day-to-day business operations and turned over the businesses themselves to a trust managed by her brother-in-law and sister-in-law. By resigning from their outside positions and taking the oath of office, Jared and Ivanka are now legally committed to the service of our country and are fully accountable under the federal conflict of interest laws.

Even so, there are still serious ethics concerns regarding the couple because (like the president) they have chosen not to divest all their assets or place them in a blind trust to be sold by the trustee. Jared has retained extensive real estate holdings primarily located in Chicago, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and throughout New Jersey. He has secured lines of credit (some of which are shared with his mother and father) through 10 banks, including Deutsche Bank, Bank of America and Citigroup. While the report discloses his personal lines of credit, it does not disclose the lenders and investors for the family businesses in which he retains an interest, which create further conflicts. These lenders reportedly include Goldman Sachs, the Blackstone Group, Deutsche Bank, the French bank Natixis and Israel’s largest bank, Bank Hapoalim. Based on these financial backers, Jared will need to recuse from many matters involving the financial services industry, including any steps to repeal the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. So will Ivanka because one spouse's conflicts are by law attributed to the other.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/04/03/ethics-laws-will-sideline-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-painter-eisen-canter-column/99955864/

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	No, they will go to separate prisons
	0 (0%)
	Yes, because they're rich
	1 (17%)
	They will go to couples prison
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	All the cells at Gitmo are solitary
	1 (17%)
	As long as they go to prison I don't care.
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[PJMcK]

1. They won't go to prison

Laws, rules and taxes are for the little people.

[LakeArenal]

2. I believe the gop is trying to pass this as the 28th Ammendment to the Constitution.

[PJMcK]

4. Good response

In fact, I encourage you to write an OP outlining what the Republicans might put into an hypothetical 28th Amendment.

Have a good evening, LakeArenal.

[LakeArenal]

5. It's my birthday.. and a good evening is being had... You, too!

[Chellee]

7. Happy Birthday!

[LakeArenal]

9. Thanks.

Your signature is the response for my signature... Very nice...

[L. Coyote]

3. That was easy.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. They wouldn't even let Julius and Ethel share a trial table

[Ilsa]

8. My guess is that a deal will be worked out so one parent is home

with the kids. They may have staggered sentences.

[miyazaki]

10. Only if Daddy Trump could buy the prison.