Looks like Jared Kushner is headed for a LOT of trouble

[KelleyKramer]

This is from TPM who has been doing a great job lately and I highly recomend the website ....



http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/everything-we-know-federal-investigation-jared-kushner-russia-ties-finances

Everything The Feds Want To Know About Freshly Lawyered-Up Jared Kushner






In addition to his personal attorney, Jamie Gorelick, Kushner has retained veteran criminal defense lawyer Abbe Lowell to help handle his response to special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling probe, according to reports that surfaced Monday. Lowell has been involved in some of the biggest scandals to hit D.C. in recent years, representing disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and shepherding Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Edwards through a campaign finance case that was ultimately dropped by the Justice Department.

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Kushner first came under FBI scrutiny last year as agents began digging into former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s ties to Russian officials, according to Reuters. A current U.S. law enforcement official told the publication that Kushner was one of the American names unmasked in intelligence reports detailing communications between Flynn and Russian officials. This prompted further scrutiny into Kushner’s own dealings with Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S., Sergei Kislyak.

Those dealings included a remarkable December discussion about setting up a secure, secret communications channel between the Trump transition team and Moscow, according to a Washington Post bombshell report. Kushner reportedly proposed establishing this direct line of contact, and communications intercepted by the U.S. showed that Kislyak told his superiors he was surprised by Kushner’s suggestion to use communications equipment in stateside Russian diplomatic facilities to carry it out.

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Meeting with head of a sanctioned Russian bank
Investigators are looking into the backstory of another meeting Kushner held in December, this time with the head of a Russian state-owned bank with deep connections to Russia’s intelligence agency.
Why Kushner met with Sergey Gorkov, CEO of Vnesheconombank, and what they discussed is a line of inquiry for federal investigators, according to the The New York Times. Current and former U.S. officials told the newspaper the conversation may have been part of Kushner’s effort to contact the Kremlin without the Obama administration’s knowledge, and that investigators want to know if they discussed lifting sanctions that Obama’s team imposed on Russian companies, including Vnesheconombank, in retaliation for Moscow’s annexation of Crimea.


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Much more at the link


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/everything-we-know-federal-investigation-jared-kushner-russia-ties-finances

[Stinky The Clown]

1. You in a heapa trubble, boy

[Alice11111]

8. Good one.

[orangecrush]

18. Jackie Gleason

What a great memory!

[madokie]

23. To this day

It still breaks my heart that the man is gone. The original Smokie and the Bandit was an awesome performance by him, actually the whole cast but especially Mr.Gleason

[orangecrush]

36. He was actually a tough guy

Ex boxer, and that trick shooting you saw him do in the movie was really him. He was a pistol expert.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. TPM and Slate have been daily reads (more than once per day) since the election theft for me.

along side DU, of course.

Real News - imagine that.

[herding cats]

13. Same here.

They've been on top of the issues that matter. They're both in my daily rotation now.

[madaboutharry]

3. Is this the bank that isn't really a bank?

I think there could be a massive money laundering scheme we are going to find out about.

[Hieronymus]

6. Leave it to Rachel to dig up good stuff.

[pangaia]

4. My feeling is that either we are all screwed....or...

They are ALL going down and we will escape the destruction of western democracy.


But I have been wrong before.

[Alice11111]

7. It is unfortunately the logical conclusion.

[bullimiami]

27. Well, criminals always away with the crime until they don't.

So they walk free and lying until...

[Cosmocat]

28. We have one foot in the grave

I mean, it is now public knowledge that prior to taking office our current POTUS has his right hand man talk to Russia about having secret communications run out of Russia.

Think about that? And, the optics of 45's little circle jerk with Russian officials in the Oval Office.

And, 1/3 of the country is cheering it on while another 1/3 just doesn't care.

[Gothmog]

5. You only hire Abbe Lowell if you are guilty

[sheshe2]

11. Good to hear!

Thanks!

[DesertRat]

19. Oh...

[Beartracks]

20. Abbe Gilte? n/t

[The_jackalope]

32. I saw what you did there!

[Cha]

21. An admission of guilt right off the

bat, so to speak.

[Hortensis]

22. Lol. Or very wealthy. Perhaps Lowell prefers to take the

more challenging cases?

This is like watching a verrry slow Greek tragedy play out. When it became clear Rump was going to win the primary, it was also clear that the intense attention to the affairs of a president would bring him down and many close to him. At very least, severely shaming the golden Barbie and Ken couple.

Only it's turning out to be a lot more than shame. The hubris. What the HELL did Kushner think he was doing? Was he blind to reality? Even if he was raised to think laws don't apply to him, how could he not foresee this? Crooks do best in the shadows for good reason, as Christie's dragging his father out and around the public square demonstrated.

[KelleyKramer]

24. What the hell did Kushner think he was doing? Yes, it was the hubris!

Most of those meetings were after Trump won the election

Flynn was already slated to be the top intel officer in the US (and he held that position after the inauguration)

It looks likely that Kushner saw that as an opportunity to bail out his failed real estate holdings


And the attempt by Kushner to establish a secret back channel line to the Russians is nothing but pure unadulterated hubris

[Hortensis]

25. We don't know the stories yet. Kushner may have been

hoping to put out some financial fires before they turned into conflagrations that would burn up his family. We do not know. But many top experts believe they are trying to hide something big, maybe a number of them.

That back channel designed to evade U.S. intelligence, though? My god. Even Putin's FSB reportedly declined, which perhaps will save him him from serving a term in a federal penitentiary for that alone.

And Cambridge Analytica? I'm very glad they're investigating them, but they'd sure better be clean. Otoh, if they're not he can go live in the penitentiary with my compliments.

[FakeNoose]

26. Kushner became the bagman after Flynn got the axe

I'm sure he's complicit in whatever Trump's guilty of, but he also might flip if he's scared of going to jail.
(That's what Mueller is hoping.)

Personally I don't think he will flip because if he did it would be end of everything for the Trump family.
I think he'll keep quiet and take one for the team. If he's smart that's what he'll do.

So that's why he needs a good lawyer, to negotiate with the Feds and get him the best deal.
For sure he'll get some kind of conviction and sentence but maybe serve time at the country club prison.

You have to wonder what Trump thinks of all this. Doesn't he realize they're coming for him next?

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. My last read before bedtime, and a good one.

Thanks

[KelleyKramer]

10. You're welcome dixiegrrrrl !

Have you seen the new Luther Strange tv ad yet?

It's just as stupid as all the ones he ran for AG.... ugh!

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. No tv, happily. So I miss some things worth viewing, like local ads.

Luther Strange sounds like a Batman nemesis, doesn't it?

[KelleyKramer]

37. Yes it does sound like a comic book villain

But then you see him and hear him speaking and it ruins the whole thing!

As my grandfather would say.. that boy is dumber than a bag of hammers

[LaydeeBug]

12. kick nt

[yortsed snacilbuper]

14. Follow the money,

and you'll find the traitors.

[bresue]

15. Has anyone noticed no new bombshells the last couple of weeks besides the fact that

every day it seems someone in Dump's orbit is hiring an attorney? Like a domino affect?

I imagine we can tell who Mueller talked to that day...because they then go out and get an attorney?

[Still In Wisconsin]

16. Oh Jahhhr-uhhd

Don't drop the soap, muthafucka.

[MFM008]

17. How terrible

[lindysalsagal]

29. Targeting the disinformation was key, and required U.S. inside assistance. They went to Jarred!

The following are exerpts:

The U.S. intelligence community says Russian hackers strategically targeted certain states and demographics with social media bots and “fake news” sites pushing pro-Trump stories.

CNN reported that Kushner helped the campaign make use of data targeting to reach voters in states like Michigan and Wisconsin, who ultimately ended up securing Trump’s electoral victory.

[lindysalsagal]

30. I hope Queen Ivanka's pouting saves her wittoo Jawwed. She will have to choose between Daddy and hus

husband. Can't wait for that! Maybe this is really going to be a reality TV show.

[CrispyQ]

31. I would so love it if hubby ratted out daddy.

[SharonClark]

34. Hope so, he's so deserving of trouble.

[niyad]

35. may he receive everything he deserves.