Before he became Donald Trump’s son-in-law and political adviser, Jared Kushner was a wealthy young man with a punishing travel schedule. For about a year, he would fly from New York to Alabama on Sundays to visit the federal prison camp at Maxwell Air Force Base — and deal with disgrace.
In those days, Mr Kushner, then in his twenties, was the son of federal inmate 26526-050. His father Charles, a New Jersey real estate tycoon known for big donations to Democratic politicians and Jewish causes, was incarcerated in the minimum-security facility in 2005 after pleading guilty to federal charges in a lurid political corruption scandal.
Not only had the elder Kushner admitted filing false tax returns and campaign finance reports, he also acknowledged hiring a prostitute to seduce his sister’s husband so the encounter could be filmed by private detectives in his employ. The tape was then sent to his brother-in-law and sister’s home, in an ill-fated attempt to stop them from helping prosecutors.
How is it that Jared Kushner takes revenge on Chris Christy for prosecuting his father?
“Not only had the elder Kushner admitted filing false tax returns and campaign finance reports, he also acknowledged hiring a prostitute to seduce his sister’s husband so the encounter could be filmed by private detectives in his employ.”
More irrational exuberance? Based on what I’ve read, why doesn’t Mr Kushner run his newspaper and give bi-partisan politics a rest.
Source: FT, 2016.